ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INSTANCE
(Case, example): from Medieval Latin instantia example, (urgency) from Latin: a being close upon, presence, from instāns pressing upon, urgent.
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INSTANCE
PRESENT
Present
I instance
you instance
he/she/it instances
we instance
you instance
they instance
Present continuous
I am instancing
you are instancing
he/she/it is instancing
we are instancing
you are instancing
they are instancing
Present perfect
I have instanced
you have instanced
he/she/it has instanced
we have instanced
you have instanced
they have instanced
Present perfect continuous
I have been instancing
you have been instancing
he/she/it has been instancing
we have been instancing
you have been instancing
they have been instancing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I instanced
you instanced
he/she/it instanced
we instanced
you instanced
they instanced
Past continuous
I was instancing
you were instancing
he/she/it was instancing
we were instancing
you were instancing
they were instancing
Past perfect
I had instanced
you had instanced
he/she/it had instanced
we had instanced
you had instanced
they had instanced
Past perfect continuous
I had been instancing
you had been instancing
he/she/it had been instancing
we had been instancing
you had been instancing
they had been instancing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will instance
you will instance
he/she/it will instance
we will instance
you will instance
they will instance
Future continuous
I will be instancing
you will be instancing
he/she/it will be instancing
we will be instancing
you will be instancing
they will be instancing
Future perfect
I will have instanced
you will have instanced
he/she/it will have instanced
we will have instanced
you will have instanced
they will have instanced
Future perfect continuous
I will have been instancing
you will have been instancing
he/she/it will have been instancing
we will have been instancing
you will have been instancing
they will have been instancing
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would instance
you would instance
he/she/it would instance
we would instance
you would instance
they would instance
Conditional continuous
I would be instancing
you would be instancing
he/she/it would be instancing
we would be instancing
you would be instancing
they would be instancing
Conditional perfect
I would have instance
you would have instance
he/she/it would have instance
we would have instance
you would have instance
they would have instance
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been instancing
you would have been instancing
he/she/it would have been instancing
we would have been instancing
you would have been instancing
they would have been instancing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you instance
we let´s instance
you instance
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
instanced
Present Participle
instancing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 QUOTES WITH «INSTANCE»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
instance.
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems - like prejudice and desegregation, for instance - that we face in our everyday lives.
Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.
People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.
The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that's happened to museums today - but one has to be careful about where one uses it. For instance, the Internet provides an incredible opportunity. It is a way for us to reach audiences around the world and further our educational mission.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INSTANCE»
Discover the use of
instance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
instance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
An
Instance Of The Fingerpost
Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow ...
2
An
Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring
This is the only complete, authoritative account of the most brilliantly successful espionage operation of the twentieth century: the notorious Communist spy ring headed by Dr. Richard Sorge, whose cover was that of senior German journalist ...
Chalmers A. Johnson, 1990
3
Tragic
Instance: The Sequence of Shakespeare's Tragedies
Tragic Instance follows Shakespeare's progress through his tragedies.
4
AN Instance of the Fingerpost
In 1663 Oxford, a servant girl confesses to a murder. But four witnesses--a medical student, the son of a traitor, a cryptographer, and an archivist--each finger a different culprit...
5
Take Danish, for
Instance: Linguistic Studies in Honour of ...
The contributors are linguists from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, and USA. Beyond the papers, the book contains a bibliography on Hans Basbølls work from 1968 to 2003.
Hans Basbøll, Henrik Galberg Jacobsen, 2003
6
Optimal
Instance Selection for Improved Decision Tree
Instance selection plays an important role in improving scalability of data mining algorithms, but it can also be used to improve the quality of the data mining results.
7
Abstraction and
instance: the type-token relation in ...
The book aims to lead the reader to the perception of a problem fundamental to our understanding of language, yet largely concealed by a strong intuition about linguistic sameness.
This unique genre is brilliantly depicted in A Modern Instance, a novel that helped Howells' career skyrocket and is considered to be his masterpiece.
William Dean Howells, 2013
9
Instance Selection and Construction for Data Mining
This volume serves as a comprehensive reference for graduate students, practitioners and researchers in KDD.
Huan Liu, Hiroshi Motoda, 2001
10
Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4
No matter how many documents you open (or how you open them), only a single
instance of winword.exe is loaded at a time. As you open new documents, they
appear in the new windows, but a single application remains in control of all the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INSTANCE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
instance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Looking at the raw divorce rates, for instance, Wolfinger found that people who married at age 35 or greater had a 19 percent risk of divorce, ... «Astro Awani, Jul 15»
American Universities Are Failing at Ethics | TIME
For instance, what do I find in the Chronicle of Higher Education on just one day: The University of Texas at Austin provides a case to “illustrate ... «TIME, Jul 15»
Review: Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl - LA Times
Chalifour played the concerto almost as one of the orchestra, not as a flamboyant soloist needing to stamp every instance with ego. He brought ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
The LLC Operating Agreement - Why is it important and what should …
For instance, Kentucky's LLC Act has no dissenter's rights, so the agreement drafters should consider whether to write those in. The agreement ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»
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That's not the one we charged because that was only one instance. No matter how offensive or how bad that was, that was one instance,” said ... «WOODTV.com, Jul 15»
Fighting elder abuse in Nunavut will take effort, experts argue … - CBC
Not every instance of abuse results in an investigation or charges. ... In that instance, an outreach worker connects the family with community ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
Charleston tour guides have to pass tough, detailed test | The …
For instance, some questions listed several city streets and asked that they be matched with their neighborhood or borough. Four others listed ... «The Olympian, Jul 15»
Developing Insurance Business for National Growth, Articles …
For instance, five top major players (i.e. 12% of the existing 59 insurance companies) control about 40% of the Industry's market share while 52 ... «THISDAY Live, Jul 15»
