Associations to the word «Instantiate»

Wiktionary

INSTANTIATE, verb. (transitive) To represent (something) by a concrete instance. [from 20th c.]
INSTANTIATE, verb. (transitive) (object-orientated computing) To create an object (an instance) of a specific class. [from 20th c.]

Dictionary definition

INSTANTIATE, verb. Represent by an instance; "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); "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect".

Wise words

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams