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# immediately

«immediately» in Mova's school dictionary: **at once, right now, without waiting** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (immediately); conjunction (immediately — British, «as soon as»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Immediately means at once, right now, without waiting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#m1)

2) Immediately means directly next to, with nothing in between: «immediately behind the school». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In safety lessons pupils must react immediately to a fire alarm, a teacher's call or an emergency: stop, listen, leave. In instructions «immediately» means no delay. In stories something happens immediately after something else. Phrases: immediately after, leave immediately, call immediately, immediately behind.

### examples

- Leave the building immediately when the fire alarm rings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x1)
- Come here immediately! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x2)
- Tell an adult immediately if someone is hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x3)
- Wash cuts immediately with clean water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x4)
- The shop is immediately next to the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x5)
- He fell asleep immediately. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x6)
- Immediately after lunch we went outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x7)
- The Eagle accepted the Kite immediately. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x8)

### note

Spelling trap: im-me-di-ate-ly — double «m», and keep the «e» before -ly. Similar words: at once, right away, instantly, straight away. Opposite: later, eventually.

### In the corpora

- [If you swallow medicine or something poisonous by mistake, tell an adult immediately so they can call poison control or emergency help.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/13/)
- [A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within about two hours, so the child must go to hospital immediately.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/9/)
- [A swallowed button battery means going to hospital immediately.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «immediately» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.