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Instantly

Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.

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Directly 92% connected

In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forthwith 92% connected

Immediately; without delay; directly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Immediately 92% connected

In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Now 92% connected

At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Outright 92% connected

Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Acceptor RNA noun · 78% connection

RNA molecules present in the cell (in at least 20 varieties, each variety capable of combining with a specific amino acid) that attach…

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Alb noun · 78% connection

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orde…

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Apostatize verb · 78% connection

To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to whi…

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Apsis noun · 78% connection

One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, co…

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Attacca unknown · 78% connection

Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

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Azoic adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

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Choose verb · 78% connection

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two…

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Compare verb · 78% connection

To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of on…

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Composite number noun · 78% connection

an integer that is divisible without remainder by at least one positive integer other than itself and one

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Curvet noun · 78% connection

A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…

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Day noun · 78% connection

The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between…

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Defer verb · 78% connection

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

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Downright adverb · 78% connection

Without delay; at once; completely.

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Eleventh noun · 78% connection

The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

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Existential operator noun · 78% connection

a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true

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Existential quantifier noun · 78% connection

a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true

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Heterocycle noun · 78% connection

a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon

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Heterocyclic ring noun · 78% connection

a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon

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