Immediate vs Proximate - What's the difference?
immediate | proximate | Synonyms |
Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Very close; direct or adjacent.
* Shakespeare
Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location)
Close or closest; adjacent.
* J. S. Harford
* T. Burnet
(legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
About to take place; impending.
(linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person
Immediate is a synonym of proximate.
As adjectives the difference between immediate and proximate
is that immediate is ; immediate (without delay) while proximate is close or closest; adjacent.As a noun proximate is
(linguistics) a grammatical marker in the algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person.immediate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Assemble we immediate council.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
- You are the most immediate to our throne.
Derived terms
* immediatelyAnagrams
* ----proximate
English
Adjective
(-)- proximate ancestors
- the proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]