Instantiate — definition

1. instantiate (Verb)

instantiate (Verb) — Represent by an instance. ex. "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"

instantiate (Verb) — Find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word). ex. "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect"

instantiate (Verb) — (computing) set up an instance of an object.

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