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in·stan·ti·ate

 (ĭn-stăn′shē-āt′)
tr.v. in·stan·ti·at·ed, in·stan·ti·at·ing, in·stan·ti·ates
To represent (an abstract concept) by a concrete or tangible example: "Two apples ... both instantiate the single universal redness" (J. Holloway).

[Latin īnstantia, example; see instance + -ate.]

in·stan′ti·a′tion n.
in·stan′tia·tive (-stăn′shə-tĭv) adj.
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instantiate

(ɪnˈstænʃɪˌeɪt)
vb
(tr) to represent by an instance
[C20: from Latin instantia (see instance) + -ate1]
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in•stan•ti•ate

(ɪnˈstæn ʃiˌeɪt)

v.t. -at•ed, -at•ing.
to provide an instance of or concrete evidence in support of (a theory, claim, etc.).
[1945–50; < Latin instanti(a) (taken as comb. form of instance) + -ate1]
in•stan`ti•a′tion, n.
in•stan′ti•a`tive, adj.
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instantiate


Past participle: instantiated
Gerund: instantiating

Imperative
instantiate
instantiate
Present
I instantiate
you instantiate
he/she/it instantiates
we instantiate
you instantiate
they instantiate
Preterite
I instantiated
you instantiated
he/she/it instantiated
we instantiated
you instantiated
they instantiated
Present Continuous
I am instantiating
you are instantiating
he/she/it is instantiating
we are instantiating
you are instantiating
they are instantiating
Present Perfect
I have instantiated
you have instantiated
he/she/it has instantiated
we have instantiated
you have instantiated
they have instantiated
Past Continuous
I was instantiating
you were instantiating
he/she/it was instantiating
we were instantiating
you were instantiating
they were instantiating
Past Perfect
I had instantiated
you had instantiated
he/she/it had instantiated
we had instantiated
you had instantiated
they had instantiated
Future
I will instantiate
you will instantiate
he/she/it will instantiate
we will instantiate
you will instantiate
they will instantiate
Future Perfect
I will have instantiated
you will have instantiated
he/she/it will have instantiated
we will have instantiated
you will have instantiated
they will have instantiated
Future Continuous
I will be instantiating
you will be instantiating
he/she/it will be instantiating
we will be instantiating
you will be instantiating
they will be instantiating
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been instantiating
you have been instantiating
he/she/it has been instantiating
we have been instantiating
you have been instantiating
they have been instantiating
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been instantiating
you will have been instantiating
he/she/it will have been instantiating
we will have been instantiating
you will have been instantiating
they will have been instantiating
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been instantiating
you had been instantiating
he/she/it had been instantiating
we had been instantiating
you had been instantiating
they had been instantiating
Conditional
I would instantiate
you would instantiate
he/she/it would instantiate
we would instantiate
you would instantiate
they would instantiate
Past Conditional
I would have instantiated
you would have instantiated
he/she/it would have instantiated
we would have instantiated
you would have instantiated
they would have instantiated
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.instantiate - represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"
instantiate - 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"
represent - be representative or typical for; "This period is represented by Beethoven"
2.instantiate - 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"
detect, discover, notice, observe, find - discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
instantiate - represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"
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At least in this sense, the demiurge can arguably be said to have always instantiated whatever it instantiates prior to the creation of time.
where E stands for the substance and S stands for the substratum that instantiates the substantial form and the relevant accidental forms; the uppercase Greek letters between the round brackets stand for essential properties that make up the substantial form and the lowercase Greek letters stand for accidental properties of the substance.
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But consider possible worlds [W.sub.1] and [W.sub.2] with identical causal histories: some object in [W.sub.1] instantiates a disposition that is never manifested and its counterpart in [W.sub.2] doesn't instantiate it.
One standard strategy selects the variable with the smallest domain, and instantiates it with the first value of its domain.
(16) But their ability to do this is evidently derivative of the fact that they refer to the normative bases of moral reasons, which bases are themselves the sources and explanations of moral reasons in the sense that a moral reason is the moral reason it is when and because it instantiates the appropriate normative basis (Vayrynen 2009, sec.
This is quite consistent with the standard finding (Duffy et al., 1988; Rayner & Duffy, 1986) that in a neutral context when the subsequent disambiguation instantiates the subordinate meaning, that reading is disrupted.