Instance vs. Entity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Instance and Entity
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Instance
An example that is cited to prove or invalidate a contention or illustrate a point.
Entity
A thing with distinct and independent existence
Church and empire were fused in a single entity
Instance
A case or an occurrence
In all such instances, let conscience be your guide.
Entity
Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit
Persons and corporations are equivalent entities under the law.
Instance
A step in a process or series of events
You should apply in the first instance to the personnel manager.
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Entity
The fact of existence; being.
Instance
A suggestion or request
Called at the instance of his attorney.
Entity
The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
Instance
(Archaic) Urgent solicitation or entreaty.
Entity
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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).
Entity
The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
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).
Entity
(databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
Instance
(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
Entity
The state or quality of being or existence.
The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
Instance
(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Entity
A spirit, ghost, or the like.
Instance
(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
Entity
(science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
Instance
(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
Entity
A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality.
Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification.
Instance
Occasion; order of occurrence.
Entity
That which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
Instance
A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
Instance
One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
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.
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.
Instance
(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
Instance
(Internet) An independent server on the decentralised social networking platform Mastodon.
Instance
(transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
Instance
(intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
Instance
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Undertook at her instance to restore them.
Instance
That which is instant or urgent; motive.
The instances that second marriage moveAre base respects of thrift, but none of love.
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.
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.
Instance
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
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.
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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