Synonyms for instantiate

Verb

1. instantiate, represent

usage: represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"

2. instantiate, detect, observe, find, discover, notice

usage: find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word); "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect"