different between imminent vs incoming

English

Etymology

From the present participle of Latin immin?re (“to overhang”), from mine? ("to project, overhang"), related to minae (English menace) and mons (English mount). Compare with eminent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?n?nt/ or /??m?n?nt/

Adjective

imminent (comparative more imminent, superlative most imminent)

1. about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

Usage notes

• Imminent and eminent are very similar sounds, and are weak rhymes; in dialects with the pin-pen merger, these become homophones. A typo of either word may result in a correction to the wrong word by spellchecking software. Imminent is also sometimes confused with immanent.
• Said of danger, threat and death.

Synonyms

• inevitable, immediate, impending; see also Thesaurus:impending

Derived terms

• imminence
• imminently

Related terms

• eminent
• prominent

Translations

Further reading

• imminent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• imminent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imminent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• miniment

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin immin?ns (“projecting, overhanging; threatening, menacing”).

Adjective

imminent (masculine and feminine plural imminents)

1. imminent

Derived terms

• imminentment

Related terms

• imminència

Further reading

• “imminent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “imminent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “imminent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “imminent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin immin?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.n??/

Adjective

imminent (feminine singular imminente, masculine plural imminents, feminine plural imminentes)

1. imminent

Derived terms

• expérience de mort imminente
• imminemment

Further reading

• “imminent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

imminent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of immine?

English

Adjective

incoming (not comparable)

1. Coming (or about to come) in; arriving.

2. Succeeding to an office.

Antonyms

• outgoing

Translations

Noun

incoming (countable and uncountable, plural incomings)

1. (countable) The act of coming in; arrival.
2. (uncountable, military) Enemy fire directed at oneself.
   • 1977, Moyers S. Shore, The Battle for Khe Sanh

     Volume, however, was only part of the story because the incoming was almost always the heavier stuff. The hill received little 60mm or 82mm mortar fire but a deluge of 120mm mortar and 100mm artillery rounds.

   • 1992, Michael R. Conroy, Don't tell America! (page 120)

     I'll never forget the sight of those cannoneers standing at their guns firing back while the incoming was hitting all over. That was artillery's mission.

Interjection

incoming

1. (military) a warning that something is coming towards you; especially enemy artillery fire

Anagrams

• coming in