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💻 To create instance 💡 To make concrete 📖 To give example
to instantiate

to instantiate

9.2
To give a real example of a word used in speech or writing
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈstænʃɪˌeɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : instanciar
  • To better understand his point, she needed to instantiate the theory with a relatable example.

Examples

  • The term of notice can be instantiated as a fixed period or a variable period, dependent on the contract period already elapsed.

    Academic text (2003)

  • But if you could give us some, some ways that we can instantiate it, that would be, that'd be wonderful.

  • These claims can be specified as rights, not merely basic human rights in the abstract, but as rights instantiated in a particular society and culture.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The first concerns the complex relationship between human rights as instantiated in international law, conventions, and declarations, and human rights as a philosophy, a set of beliefs about the meaning of human dignity and the contours of a just society.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The teacher used a real-life situation to instantiate the concept of supply and demand for her students.

  • In the meeting, he shared a successful project to instantiate the company's approach to innovation.

Synonyms

to instance
vsto instantiate
1 5.4

To give an example to support a point

provides an example showing how something is used in real situations

How Concrete

to instantiate
  • Specialized
9.2
to exemplify
  • Formal
45 6.8
to illustrate
301 3.5
to cite
421 3.6

Surface Forms

instantiate infinitive
instantiated past
instantiated past participle
instantiating present participle
instantiates third person singular

Morphology

instantiate = instant (opaque) = instant + iate

The suffix 'iate' does not transparently convey the meaning of providing or finding an example.

Etymology

Instantiate is easy to remember here if you think of giving an instance (an 'example') in real use and making the idea 'stand' in actual speech or writing. That's why to instantiate a word or pattern is to show it with real examples.