instant
— Adjective
– English
~ in or of the present month; "your letter of the 10th inst"
instant
— Adjective
– English
~ occurring with no delay; "relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification"
instant
— Adjective
– English
~ demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
instant
— Noun
– English
~ a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
instant coffee
— Noun
– English
~ dehydrated coffee that can be made into a drink by adding hot water; "the advantages of instant coffee are speed of preparation and long shelf life"
instant
— Noun
– English
~ a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
instantiate
— Verb
– English
~ represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"
instantiate
— Verb
– English
~ 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"