different between immediate vs neighborhood

English

Etymology

From Old French immediat, from Late Latin immedi?tus (“without anything between”), from Latin in + medi?tus, past participle of medi? (“to halve, to be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??mi.di.?t/, /??mi.di.?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??mi?d??t/, /??mi?d??t/
• Hyphenation: im?me?di?ate

Adjective

immediate (comparative more immediate, superlative most immediate)

1. Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.

2. Very close; direct or adjacent.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2,^[2]

     You are the most immediate to our throne,

3. Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
4. (computer science, of an instruction operand) embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location)
5. (procedure word, military) Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.

6. (procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for to types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).

Synonyms

• (happening right away): instant, present; see also Thesaurus:instantaneous
• (very close): close, nearby; see also Thesaurus:near
• (manifestly true): self-evident, indubitable

Derived terms

• immediately

Related terms

• immediacy

Translations

Anagrams

• metiamide

Italian

Adjective

immediate f pl

1. feminine plural of immediato

Latin

Adjective

immedi?te

1. vocative masculine singular of immedi?tus

English

Alternative forms

• neighbourhood (UK)

Etymology

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English ne?eburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor +? -red; the alteration being interpreted as though from neighbor +? -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ne?b?.h?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ne?b??h?d/

Noun

neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods) (American spelling)

1. (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.

   Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245,^[1]

     […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act V, Scene 2,^[2]

     Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up

     Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms

     Of France and England, whose very shores look pale

     With envy of each other’s happiness,

     May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction

     Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord

     In their sweet bosoms […]

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 399-402:

     Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.

   • 1835, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes:

     Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.

2. (dated) Close proximity; nearness.
   • 1853, Charles Boner, Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria (page 286)

     At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood.

3. The residential area near one's home.

   He lives in my neighborhood.

4. The inhabitants of a residential area.

   The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

5. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

   We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

6. An approximate amount.

   He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

7. The quality of physical proximity.

   The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

8. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
9. (topology) Within a topological space:
   1. A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
   2. Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
10. (topology) Within a metric space:
    1. A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
    2. Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
11. (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
12. (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

Synonyms

• vicinity
• proximity
• quarter

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• neighborship
• neighborhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia