Crossword clues for instance
instance
- Single occurrence
- Northern bloke invested in diamonds, for example
- Fashionable position, for example
- Fashionable attitude, for example
- How W G Grace was sometimes photographed for example
- Popular golfer’s position, for example
- Particular case
- Batting posture, for example
- Intoxicated leaders can set bad example
- Single example
- Rock and roll occurrence
- Case or particular example
- Case — isn't acne (anag)
- Canniest (anag) — occurrence
- "An Eluardian ___" Of Montreal
- Example
- Case in point
- A single item of information that is representative of a type
- An occurrence of something
- Metamorphosis of an insect, for example
- Cook an insect, for example
- Canniest suspect, for example
- Example of popular position
- Example of popular opinion
- Example of fellow in unusually nice surroundings
- Example of accepted position
- Example of batting position at the crease
- Example given by ancients originally
- Occasion at home — with attitude
- Succeeded in a resolution of ancient case
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instance \In"stance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Instanced; p. pr. &
vb. n. Instancing.]
To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to
instance a fact.
--H. Spenser.
I shall not instance an abstruse author.
--Milton.
Instance \In"stance\, v. i. To give an example. [Obs.]
This story doth not only instance in kingdoms, but in
families too.
--Jer. Taylor.
Instance \In"stance\, n. [F. instance, L. instantia, fr. instans. See Instant.]
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The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Undertook at her instance to restore them.
--Sir W. Scott. -
That which is instant or urgent; motive. [Obs.]
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
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Occasion; order of occurrence.
These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance.
--Sir M. Hale. -
That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example; as, we could find no instance of poisoning in the town within the past year.
Most remarkable instances of suffering.
--Atterbury. -
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
--Shak.Causes of instance, those which proceed at the solicitation of some party.
--Hallifax.Court of first instance, the court by which a case is first tried.
For instance, by way of example or illustration; for example.
Instance Court (Law), the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court.
Syn: Example; case. See Example.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "urgency," from Old French instance "eagerness, anxiety, solicitation" (13c.), from Latin instantia "presence, effort intention; earnestness, urgency," literally "a standing near," from instans (see instant). In Scholastic logic, "a fact or example" (early 15c.), from Medieval Latin instantia, used to translate Greek enstasis. This led to use in phrase for instance "as an example" (1650s), and the noun phrase To give (someone) a for instance (1953, American English).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. (14th-19th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. 3 (context obsolete English) That which is urgent; motive. 4 Occasion; order of occurrence. 5 A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. (from 16th c.) 6 One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same. 7 (context obsolete English) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something). (16th-18th c.) 8 (context computing English) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class. (from 20th c.) 9 (context massively multiplayer online games English) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players. 10 (context massively multiplayer online games English) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other are
v
1 (context transitive English) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact. 2 (context intransitive English) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
WordNet
n. an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths" [syn: case, example]
an item of information that is representative of a type; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" [syn: example, illustration, representative]
v. clarify by giving an example of [syn: exemplify, illustrate]
Wikipedia
In object-oriented programming (OOP), an instance is a concrete occurrence of any object, existing usually during the runtime of a computer program. Formally, "instance" is synonymous with "object" as they are each a particular value (realization), and these may be called an instance object; "instance" emphasizes the distinct identity of the object. The creation of an instance is called instantiation.
In class-based programming, objects are created from classes by subroutines called constructors, and destroyed by destructors. An object is an instance of a class, and may be called a class instance or class object; instantiation is then also known as construction. Not all classes can be instantiated abstract classes cannot be instantiated, while classes that can be instantiated are called concrete classes. In prototype-based programming, instantiation is instead done by copying a prototype.
An object may be varied in a number of ways. Each realized variation of that object is an instance. Each time a program runs, it is an instance of that program. That is, it is a member of a given class that has specified values rather than variables. In a non-programming context, you could think of "dog" as a type and your particular dog as an instance of that class.
An important distinction is between the data type, which is interface, and the class, which is implementation.
The meaning of the term "type" in computer science is rather similar to the meaning of the word "type" in everyday language. For example, a barman can ask a client what type of beverage does he or she want coffee, tea or beer? A particular cup of coffee that the client receives is in the role of an instance, while two cups of coffee would form a set of two instances of coffee, determining its type at the same time.
Usage examples of "instance".
But if liquid of the same species were added, of instance, wine with wine, the same species would remain, but the wine would not be the same numerically, as the diversity of the accidents shows: for instance, if one wine were white and the other red.
If capital today is more concerned with ensuring that individuals perform their social labor as consumers, then we can see Condomology as an instance of aestheticizing the political economy.
Particularly instructive and well reported is the instance of bear cult of the Ainu of Japan, a Caucasoid race that entered and settled Japan centuries earlier than the Mongoloid Japanese, and are confined today to the northern islands, Hokkaido and Sakhalin -- the latter now, of course, in Russian hands.
Although, no doubt, many of the ecclesiastics of the time were a disgrace to their profession, as in former days was William of Ledbury, who was prior of Malvern, yet there were good Catholics as well as good Lollards, and I instanced Prior Alcock, who even then was engaged in the rebuilding of Little Malvern Priory, and I thought people should be allowed to worship God in their own fashion without being considered sinful.
Bishop Alcock, who was learned in all local lore, as well as in all ecclesiastical research, again discoursed on the celestial wonders brought to mother earth, and instanced the example of St.
Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.
Duchesne mentions an instance of complete amenorrhea, in which the ordinary flow was replaced by periodic sweats.
For instance, if that gunboat, with its purple-whiskered Amsterdammer of a captain, should just now happen in.
The double river-systems of the Volga and Kama, the Obi and Irtish, the Angara and Yenisei, the Lena and Vitim on the Arctic slope, the Amur and Sungari on the Pacific slope, are instances.
For instance, in 1981 Harry Oppenheimer, chairman of the giant Anglo American Corporation that controls gold and diamond mining, sales and distribution in the world, stated that he was about to launch into the North American banking market.
Lidocaine, the antiarrhythmic and lo-cal anesthetic, for instance, could cause prolonged seizures if given intravenously in large enough doses.
For instance, one tiny wasp, aphelinus mail, goes after woolly aphids and very little else.
Nova Police can be compared to apomorphine, a regulating instance that need not continue and has no intention of continuing after its work is done.
In describing the country, extraction, and manners of Herculius, we have already delineated those of Galerius, who was often, and not improperly, styled the younger Maximian, though, in many instances both of virtue and ability, he appears to have possessed a manifest superiority over the elder.
Quintii, Capitolinus and Cincinnatus, and his own uncle, Caius Claudius, a man most stedfast in the interest of the nobility, and other citizens of the same eminence, he appoints as decemvirs men by no means equal in rank of life: himself in the first instance, which proceeding honourable men disapproved so much the more, as no one had imagined that he would have the daring to act so.