Overnight vs Immediate - What's the difference?
overnight | immediate |
Throughout the night.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight , waved with hot tongs;.
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During a single night.
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In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
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Occurring between dusk and dawn.
Complete before the next morning.
To stay overnight; to spend the night.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 128:
(US) To send something for delivery the next day.
Items delivered or completed overnight.
An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
(obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
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)
As adjectives the difference between overnight and immediate
is that overnight is occurring between dusk and dawn while immediate is ; immediate (without delay).As an adverb overnight
is throughout the night.As a verb overnight
is to stay overnight; to spend the night.As a noun overnight
is items delivered or completed overnight.overnight
English
Adverb
(-)Storm Bared a Lack of Options for the Homeless in New York
Adjective
(-)- ''The overnight ferry docked at 10AM.
- Don't expect results overnight .
Verb
(en verb)- His visits to Paris (which he had not allowed his son to visit until he was a teenager) became less frequent too: he never over-nighted there, for example, after 1744.
- We can overnight you the documents for signature.
Noun
(en noun)- Have you looked at the overnights yet?
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immediate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Assemble we immediate council.
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- You are the most immediate to our throne.
