Schema vs. Instance — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Schema and Instance
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Schema
A plan, outline, or model
A schema for prioritizing vaccinations.
A writer's schema for a novel.
Instance
An example that is cited to prove or invalidate a contention or illustrate a point.
Schema
(Psychology) A pattern imposed on complex reality or experience to assist in explaining it, mediate perception, or guide response.
Instance
A case or an occurrence
In all such instances, let conscience be your guide.
Schema
An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).
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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.
Schema
(databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
Instance
A suggestion or request
Called at the instance of his attorney.
Schema
(markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
Instance
(Archaic) Urgent solicitation or entreaty.
Schema
(logic) A formula in the metalanguage of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
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).
Schema
(Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.
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).
Schema
An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.
Instance
(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
Schema
An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
Instance
(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Schema
A schematic or preliminary plan
Instance
(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
Instance
(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
Instance
Occasion; order of occurrence.
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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