Incident vs. Instance — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Incident and Instance
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Incident
A particular occurrence, especially one of minor importance.
Instance
An example that is cited to prove or invalidate a contention or illustrate a point.
Incident
An event in a narrative or drama.
Instance
A case or an occurrence
In all such instances, let conscience be your guide.
Incident
A usually violent or disruptive occurrence, especially one that precipitates a larger crisis
An international incident that provoked war.
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Instance
A step in a process or series of events
You should apply in the first instance to the personnel manager.
Incident
An occurrence that interrupts normal procedure or functioning; a mishap
The plane landed without incident.
Instance
A suggestion or request
Called at the instance of his attorney.
Incident
(Law) Something contingent on or related to something else.
Instance
(Archaic) Urgent solicitation or entreaty.
Incident
Tending to arise or occur as a result or accompaniment
"There is a professional melancholy ... incident to the occupation of a tailor" (Charles Lamb).
Instance
To offer as an example; cite
"I assured her that I was interested in garbage, and instanced the fact that I had once been a garbage inspector myself" (Jane Addams).
Incident
(Law) Related to or dependent on another thing.
Instance
To demonstrate or show by an example; exemplify
"how absurd it often is to cite a single line from ... a poem for the purpose of instancing the perfection or imperfection of the line's rhythm" (Edgar Allan Poe).
Incident
(Physics) Falling upon or striking a surface
Incident radiation.
Instance
(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
Incident
An event or occurrence.
She could not recall the time of the incident.
It was an incident that he hoped to forget.
The suspect was released without further incident.
Instance
(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Incident
A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
Instance
(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
Incident
An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
Instance
(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
Incident
Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
Instance
Occasion; order of occurrence.
Incident
Falling on or striking a surface.
The incident light illuminated the surface.
Instance
A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
Incident
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
Instance
One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
Incident
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
Instance
(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.
Incident
(legal) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
Instance
(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.
Incident
Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
Instance
(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
Incident
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.
Instance
(Internet) An independent server on the decentralised social networking platform Mastodon.
Incident
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
All chances incident to man's frail life.
The studies incident to his profession.
Instance
(transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
Incident
Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
Instance
(intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
Incident
That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
Instance
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Undertook at her instance to restore them.
Incident
That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.
No person, no incident, in a play but must be of use to carry on the main design.
Instance
That which is instant or urgent; motive.
The instances that second marriage moveAre base respects of thrift, but none of love.
Incident
Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.
Instance
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.
Incident
A single distinct event
Instance
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.
Incident
A public disturbance;
The police investigated an incident at the bus station
Instance
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Incident
Falling or striking on something
Instance
To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
I shall not instance an abstruse author.
Incident
(sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence;
Incidental expenses
The road will bring other incidental advantages
Extra duties incidental to the job
Labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion
Confusion incidental to a quick change
Instance
To give an example.
This story doth not only instance in kingdoms, but in families too.
Instance
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
Instance
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
Instance
Clarify by giving an example of
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