Instants - English meaning

noun

A small piece, part, or quantity of something.

Usage examples:

Give the duck a bit of bread

verb

Past of bite.

verb

Put a bit into the mouth of (a horse).

Usage examples:

However, they can experience behavioral problems when ridden, many coming back to bad experiences w…

verb

Shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way.

Usage examples:

Lightning flashed overhead

noun

A sudden brief burst of bright light.

Usage examples:

A flash of lightning

adjective

Ostentatiously stylish or expensive.

Usage examples:

A flash new car

noun

A period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes.

Usage examples:

An extra hour of daylight in the winter evenings

noun

A very short time; a moment.

Usage examples:

I'll have breakfast ready in a jiff

noun

A very short time; a moment.

Usage examples:

We'll be back in a jiffy

noun

A very short time

Usage examples:

I’m on the phone, but i’ll be with you in a jiffy.

noun

A brand name for a thick envelope that protects things that are easily damaged when they are sent in the mail

noun

A particular point in events or time.

Usage examples:

It is difficult to say at this juncture whether this upturn can be sustained

noun

A particular point in time or stage in a series of events

Usage examples:

Negotiations are at a critical juncture.

noun

A period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour.

Usage examples:

We waited for twenty minutes

adjective

Extremely small.

Usage examples:

Minute particles

verb

Record (the proceedings of a meeting).

Usage examples:

The secretary shall minute the proceedings of each meeting

noun

A very brief period of time.

Usage examples:

She was silent for a moment before replying

noun

One thousand-millionth of a second.

Usage examples:

If you do the same math for pc 100, you get eight bytes running parallel every 10 nanoseconds for a…

noun

A measurement equal to one billionth of a second, used to describe the speed at which a computer works on data

Usage examples:

The chip's memory access time of 26 nanoseconds made it highly competitive., following the scandal,…

noun

A distinct period or stage in a series of events or a process of change or development.

Usage examples:

The final phases of the war

verb

Carry out (something) in gradual stages.

Usage examples:

The work is being phased over a number of years

noun

Any stage in a series of events or in a process of development

Usage examples:

The project is only in its first phase of planning, so we haven’t yet established the cost.

noun

The tapered, sharp end of a tool, weapon, or other object.

Usage examples:

The point of his dagger

verb

A fielding position on the off side near the batsman.

abbreviation

Secant.

noun

A second; a very short space of time.

Usage examples:

Stay put, i'll be back in a sec

adjective

(of wine) dry.

Usage examples:

As it was, holder gave us jardin aux lilas, not in an edwardian garden, but perhaps in a penthouse …

verb

Formally support or endorse (a nomination or resolution or its proposer) as a necessary preliminary to adoption or further discussion.

Usage examples:

Bridgeman seconded maxwell's motion calling for the reform

noun

A sixtieth of a minute of time, which as the si unit of time is defined in terms of the natural periodicity of the radiation of a caesium-133 atom.

Usage examples:

Torrance squeezed the trigger, waited twenty five seconds and fired again.

verb

Transfer (a military officer or other official or worker) temporarily to other employment or another position.

Usage examples:

I was seconded to a public relations unit

noun

A point, period, or step in a process or development.

Usage examples:

There is no need at this stage to give explicit details

verb

Present a performance of (a play or other show).

Usage examples:

The show is being staged at the grand opera house in belfast

noun

A part of an activity, or a period of development

Usage examples:

The software is in the early stages of development., at that stage of my life, i was married but di…

noun

The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

Usage examples:

Travel through space and time

verb

Plan, schedule, or arrange when (something) should happen or be done.

Usage examples:

The first track race is timed for 11.15

noun

The seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc., in which existence is measured, or the past, present, and future considered as a whole

Usage examples:

I really don’t have time to call her today., the children spent most of their time outdoors., we’d …

noun

In a very short time

Usage examples:

Jim had the wheel mended in a trice.

adjective

Shining with a gleam that changes from bright to faint.

Usage examples:

Twinkling harbour lights

verb

(of a star or light, or a shiny object) shine with a gleam that changes constantly from bright to faint.

Usage examples:

The lights twinkled in the distance