{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈɪnstəns" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/instance.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/instance.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. \n1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his , I spake to that purpose .\n1814 July 7, , Waverley; , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:   James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC: undertook at her instance to restore them.\n1916, Taft, William Howard, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers‎, New York: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 56:It was settled, as long ago as the first Congress, at the instance of Madison, then in the Senate, and by the deciding vote of John Adams, then Vice-President, that even where the advice and consent of the Senate was necessary to the appointment of an officer, the President had the absolute power to remove him without consulting the Senate." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.\nc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.\nc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :The instances that second marriage moveAre base respects of thrift, but none of love." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something). \nc. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):The reason that I gather he is mad, Besides this present instance of his rage, Is a mad tale he told to day at dinner" }, { "mean": "Occasion; order of occurrence.\n1713, , “Concerning the Distribution of the Laws of England into Common Law, and Statute Law. And First, Concerning the Statute Law, or Acts of Parliament.”, in The History of the Common Law of England: , : J Nutt, assignee of Edw Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, , →OCLC, page 14:The Statutes, or Acts of Parliament themſelves. Theſe ſeem, as if in the Time of Edw I. they were drawn up into the Form of a Law in the firſt Inſtance, and ſo aſſented to by both Houſes, and the King, as may appear by the very Obſervation of the Contexture and Fabrick of the Statutes of thoſe Times." }, { "mean": "A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. \nAugust 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet\nmost remarkable instances of suffering\n1624, Democritus Junior , The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC::\nsometimes we love those that are absent, saith Philostratus, and gives instance in his friend Athenodorus, that loved a maid at Corinth whom he never saw" }, { "mean": "One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.\n2006, Robert Spaemann, Persons: The Difference Between 'someone' and 'something', page 115:One's own death is an 'accidental' event, simply another instance of the general rule that human beings die.\n2010, Kenneth Anderson, How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol, page 59:If you choose to drink again the best way to avoid another instance of withdrawal is to avoid drinking two days in a row.\n2010 October 11, Mark King, “Homeowners warned to be vigilant as identity and registration fraud rises”, in The Guardian‎:The organisations claim fraudsters are targeting properties belonging to both individuals and companies, in some instances using forged documents." }, { "mean": "(computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming. \n2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques, page 149:Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time." }, { "mean": "(massively multiplayer online games) 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.\n2006 September 1, \"Dan\" (username), \"Re: DPS Classes: Why should I heal you?\", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:\nAs long as the most difficult instance you've tried is Gnomeregan, you're never going to be credible talking about 'difficult encounters'.\n2010, William Sims Bainbridge, Online Multiplayer Games, Morgan & Claypool, →ISBN, page 26:For example, when a team of five players enters the Sunken Temple instance in World of Warcraft, they will battle many monsters, but they will not encounter other players even though several teams of players may be experiencing the Sunken Temple at the same time.\n2012, anonymous gamer quoted in Andrew Ee & Hichang Cho, \"What Makes an MMORPG Leader? A Social Cognitive Theory-Based Approach to Understanding the Formation of Leadership Capabilities in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games\", Eludamos, volume 6, page 31:\nBeating a difficult instance becomes second nature after running through it…a few times, with good leaders knowing exactly what to do and how to co-ordinate member actions." }, { "mean": "(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.\n2005 January 11, Patrick B., \"Re: Instance dungeons\", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:\nThe instance is created for the group that enters it.\n2005 December 6, \"Rene\" (username), \"Re: Does group leader affect drops?\", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:\nAs soon as the first player enters (spawns) a new instance, it appears that the loottable is somehow chosen.\n2010, Anthony Steed & Manuel Fradinho Oliveira, Networked Graphics: Building Networked Games and Virtual Environments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 398:A castle on the eastern edge of the island spawns a new instance whenever a party of players enters." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite\n1834, L E L, Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 93:The reason why so many fallacious opinions have passed into proverbs is owing to that carelessness which makes the individual instance the general rule.\n1901 April 12, “Veterinary Departmental Report for February, 1901”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 3, page 87:District Veterinary Surgeon Hutchinson's report from Newcastle is again worthy of notice, as instancing the difficulty of suppression of contagious disease under the disturbed conditions now existing in the northern part of the Colony.\n1946, E. 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