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INSTANTIATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Represent by an instance

Example:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

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)

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