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INSTANTIATE

Dictionary entry overview: What does instantiate mean?

• INSTANTIATE (verb)
The verb INSTANTIATE has 2 senses:

1. represent by an instance
2. find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)

Familiarity information: INSTANTIATE used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• INSTANTIATE (verb)

Sense 1

instantiate ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Represent by an instance

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect

Hypernyms (to "instantiate" is one way to...):

represent (be representative or typical for)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

instantiate ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect

Hypernyms (to "instantiate" is one way to...):

detect; discover; find; notice; observe (discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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