head-on vs immediate

head-on

adj
  • Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating. 

  • Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion. 

noun
  • A collision from the front. 

adv
  • With the front of a vehicle. 

  • With direct confrontation. 

immediate

adj
  • Very close; direct or adjacent. 

  • 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). 

  • Manifestly true; requiring no argument. 

  • Happening right away, instantly, with no delay. 

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

  • Used to denote that a transmission is urgent. 

How often have the words head-on and immediate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )