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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
instantiate .
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Utterances of quotation marks, by virtue of having a demonstrative/indexical ingredient, refer to the expression instantiated by the demonstrated token, i.e., the expression instantiated by the token that in surface syntax sits between the quotation marks.
Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009
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The ChildGetAsStub call instantiated a SIChild instance, assigned to the Child property and returned it.
MSDN Blogs nikolait 2009
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Conversely, being instantiated, which is a property of both bachelor and cygnet, is not a mark of either.
Maverick Philosopher 2008
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Marshall: I mean taking 3D models, right out of the game engine, and having them "instantiated" or "printed" on a stereo lithography system.
Top 10 MMOG Trends? 2005
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I mean taking 3D models, right out of the game engine, and having them "instantiated" or "printed" on a stereo lithography system.
Top 10 MMOG Trends? 2005
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In fact, it might be that some thing has both an IP and a CP component that defines it as being an "instantiated" kind of thing.
Let the games begin! 2005
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And they can be "instantiated" for any Entity (unless you put custom constraints which are outside of EAV-Django's area of responsibility).
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It is not an idea as we experience ideas, not an object in ideation itself, but the schematic instantiated in an object.
Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009
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According to this view, the curriculum is instantiated in classroom practice, whether or not this practice actually reflects the (often lofty) intentions of program designers and materials writers.
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I expected that the writer (like many before her) would lay the blame for student reticence on the culturally inappropriate, Western-style communicative methodology (as instantiated in current best-selling coursebooks) and its ill-fit with Confucian values of modesty and avoidance of threats to face.
mruby commented on the word instantiated
Here is another usage:
Writing in 2008 in the American Economic Review, Gauti Eggertsson claims that Hoover instantiated three policy dogmas, and that, by overcoming Hoover’s dogmas, Roosevelt shifted expectations and brought recovery by the end of his first term. A thoroughgoing critique is offered here by Steven Horwitz.
from an email from American Institute for Economic Research 9/14/09
September 14, 2009