Immediate vs. Urgent

Immediateadjective

Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.

‘Computer users these days expect immediate results when they click on a link.’;

Urgentadjective

Requiring immediate attention.

‘An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.’;

Immediateadjective

Very close; direct or adjacent.

‘immediate family;’; ‘immediate vicinity’;

Urgentadjective

Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

‘Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary.’; ‘The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.’;

Immediateadjective

Manifestly true; requiring no argument.

Urgentadjective

compelling immediate action;

‘too pressing to permit of longer delay’; ‘the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'’; ‘bridges in urgent need of repair’;

Immediateadjective

embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location)

Immediateadjective

Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.

‘Bravo Three, this Bravo Six. Immediate! We are coming under fire from the north from an unknown enemy, over!’;

Immediateadjective

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).

‘Hotel Two-Niner, this is Bravo Six. Immediate suppression at grid November-Kilo four-five-three two-one-five. Danger Close. I authenticate Golf Echo, over.’;

Immediateadjective

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

‘You are the most immediate to our throne.’;

Immediateadjective

Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.

‘Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared,By some immediate stroke.’;

Immediateadjective

Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.

‘The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible.’;

Immediateadjective

very close or connected in space or time;

‘contiguous events’; ‘immediate contact’; ‘the immediate vicinity’; ‘the immediate past’;

Immediateadjective

having no intervening medium;

‘an immediate influence’;

Immediateadjective

immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect;

‘the immediate result’; ‘the immediate cause of the trouble’;

Immediateadjective

of the present time and place;

‘the immediate revisions’;

Immediateadjective

performed with little or no delay;

‘an immediate reply to my letter’; ‘prompt obedience’; ‘was quick to respond’; ‘a straightaway denial’;