INSTANTIATE

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 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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they instantiate    ... he / she / it instantiates   
Past simple: instantiated   
Past participle: instantiated   
-ing form: instantiating   

Sense 1

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)

Verb group:

instantiate (find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

instance (an item of information that is typical of a class or group)

instance (an occurrence of something)

instantiation (a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it)

Sense 2

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)

Verb group:

instantiate (represent by an instance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

instance (an item of information that is typical of a class or group)

instance (an occurrence of something)

instantiation (a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it)

 Context examples 

The act of instantiating, positioning or activating a medical device inside of the body.

(Medical Device Deployment, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)