instantiate

Create an instance

To instantiate is to create a concrete instance of something abstract.

In computing and object-oriented programming, you instantiate a class by creating an object from it: The code instantiates a new user object.

More broadly, to instantiate is to represent or embody an abstraction in a specific example: Her career instantiates what's possible with persistence.

The noun is instantiation.

embody

personify

Represent as human

typify · incarnate · materialize · actualize · manifest · illustrate · demonstrate · express · model · depict

create

generate

Cause to come into being

forge · fabricate · engineer · design · develop · compose · formulate · assemble · manufacture · spawn

programming

object

Tangible entity or aim

allocate · initialize · factory · singleton · prototype · method · invoke · call · parameter · argument

abstract

concept

Abstract mental construct

notion · abstraction · archetype · pattern · schema · type · class · interface · specification · definition

Opposites
abstraction vs. concretization

instantiateabstract

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generalize · theorize · conceptualize · disembody · dematerialize

existence vs. non-existence of instances

instantiatedestroy

Cause complete ruin

abolish · eliminate · erase · nullify · annihilate

realization

instantiatetheorize

Form explanatory suppositions

hypothesize · speculate · conceptualize · plan · imagine

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