Instance vs. Entity
Instancenoun
(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
Instancenoun
(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Instancenoun
(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
Instancenoun
Occasion; order of occurrence.
Instancenoun
A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
Instancenoun
One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
Instancenoun
(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
Instancenoun
(computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class.
Instancenoun
(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.
Instancenoun
(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
Instanceverb
(transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
Instanceverb
(intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
Instancenoun
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Instancenoun
That which is instant or urgent; motive.
Instancenoun
Occasion; order of occurrence.
Instancenoun
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.
Instancenoun
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Instanceverb
To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
Instanceverb
To give an example.
Instancenoun
an occurrence of something;
Instancenoun
an item of information that is representative of a type;
Instanceverb
clarify by giving an example of
Entitynoun
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
Entitynoun
The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
Entitynoun
(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.
Entitynoun
The state or quality of being or existence.
Entitynoun
A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
Entitynoun
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
Entitynoun
a thing with distinct and independent existence
Entitynoun
existence; being
