INSTANTLY


Meaning of INSTANTLY in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be killed instantly/outright (= immediately )

The driver was killed instantly.

die instantly (= as soon as an accident, injury etc happens )

He was shot in the head and died instantly.

instantly recognizable

His face was instantly recognizable .

instantly/immediately

‘No,’ she blurted out, instantly regretting her response.

obey instantly/immediately

He expected his orders to be obeyed instantly.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

available

With four comms radios instantly available , we switch from McAlpines' company frequency straight to Heathrow.

Yet it is instantly available , unlike official statistics that are always out of date.

It is instantly available , and slides neatly out of sight when not needed.

familiar

So Muthaiga Club is instantly familiar .

The scenery is instantly familiar to fans of her work.

A Shakespeare play is about motives and predicaments and feelings and personalities that are instantly familiar .

recognisable

Many have instantly recognisable traits which will help when selecting plants from nurseries and garden centres.

I had put the purple tinsel on to make my case instantly recognisable .

The voice down the line was instantly recognisable , and instantly unwelcome.

Alaia tops, Paul Smith suits, extravagant spectacles: the designers are an instantly recognisable breed.

With its stainless steel body and gull-winged doors, it is one of the most instantly recognisable cars ever built.

And it helps that they look so damned good-and are instantly recognisable in the car park!

The latter will be instantly recognisable by the vibrations you can feel on the line if it is held reasonably tight.

While chairman of the health authority he was instantly recognisable by the fresh, home-grown carnation he wore to work every day.

recognizable

He was instantly recognizable in the small but influential circle he kept.

Instead of tables of numbers, computer-based graphics can give instantly recognizable representations of complex relationships.

Given like that it is instantly recognizable .

Among the faces looming out of the night, and through the fog of my exhaustion, my host was instantly recognizable .

All the instantly recognizable roads, houses, trees.

■ VERB

become

The line became instantly popular and managements all over the world were impatient to snap them up whenever they were free.

It instantly became a curiosity of rock lore, especially because pictures of the costumed, superstar event were published.

The whole school would instantly become hushed and enthralled by the horror, watching.

Now, for the first time, he saw the translation of the second message, and its meaning became instantly clear.

This does not mean that you will instantly become enfeebled, relying on others to do everything for you.

His 20 points against Oregon State a week ago were just 10 shy of his career total and instantly became Bruin lore.

The financial interests thus gelled into four organizations that soon became instantly recognized household names and logos.

It was here that they were forced to eat beef thereby becoming instantly de-Hinduized.

die

Ian died instantly , Mark escaped with cuts and bruises.

The man died instantly and his name was withheld while investigators tried to locate relatives.

He died instantly along with some 15 bystanders.

Police said all four died instantly .

The man, in his late teens or early twenties, died instantly .

The laughter died instantly and everyone waited in expectation.

Most of the bullets struck his head and John Browne died instantly .

Stephanie Kuhen was shot in the head and died instantly .

fall

She closed her eyes and fell instantly asleep.

feel

Though the rector had been here but once before, he felt instantly at home.

In the lobby I feel instantly bereft.

Cybil would be writing or looking for something in her notebook, and Simon would feel instantly better.

I feel instantly unsteady on my feet.

kill

Nadine was killed instantly and Deanne died in hospital four hours later.

Park and Sheena were killed instantly .

The aeroplane crashed and your brother was killed instantly .

Both the Prince and his wife were killed instantly .

Eight of the animals were killed instantly and the other three had to be put down.

What had instantly killed the young Princess of Corinth could not kill Hercules.

Geriatric nurse Susan, 23, was killed instantly .

He was killed instantly , and two others were wounded.

know

I knew instantly who the fisherman would be.

For her part, Jacque Price said she knew instantly what had happened after reading the newspaper in March.

He knew instantly which of the fourteen had to be phoned.

I was afraid he would look at me and instantly know what had happened.

She knew instantly , among the bewildering wall of cookery books, the precise one for me.

He saw you in your red suspenders with gold dollar signs and knew instantly who you were.

He knew instantly the driver was intent on killing them.

He knew instantly that the eye had reacted to his presence.

recognised

We go up to the wheel base and Yeb is instantly recognised .

It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she'd seen it in the flesh.

Roquelaure was recognised instantly by the head waiter who took them straight to a reserved corner table.

It was as though her soul had looked beyond the flesh and instantly recognised its counterpart.

The wine label repeated the same words in a floridly ornate script overprinted on a picture, which Sabine recognised instantly .

recognize

We can, however, instantly recognize the actual instances where rules are broken.

I instantly recognized that every computer user was now potentially a publisher.

It can be instantly recognized by its bright plumage.

Nevertheless, anybody who knows the market for such items would recognize instantly that I stole it.

It is the kind of argument that any businessman in charge of even a medium-sized company would recognize instantly .

The King instantly recognized it and dashed the cup to the ground.

respond

Not every pathogen will respond instantly to events.

It was to respond instantly to any complaint or grievance regard-less of the merits, and just fight the company.

For the first time during the entire voyage, he failed to respond instantly to a request.

see

Upon meeting them you instantly see what they look like, and quickly observe their facial expressions, gestures and body language.

Ronni could see instantly what he meant.

Sorting by date makes the most sense so you can instantly see what's most recent.

Colour-balanced lights mean the surgeon can see instantly any colour changes in the patient.

This can be useful if you're viewing directories and lists, as you can instantly see what you have previously visited.

And she saw instantly that they were taken in Allen's Manhattan apartment.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He knew instantly something was wrong.

It was a head-on crash and both drivers died instantly .

Sea snakes inject a poison so strong that it kills a fish instantly .

They recognized him instantly .

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