Dungeon vs. Instance

Dungeon vs. Instance — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Dungeon and Instance

Dungeonnoun

An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.

Instancenoun

(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.

Dungeonnoun

(obsolete) The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.

Instancenoun

(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves. Hamlet IV. v. ca. 1602

Dungeonnoun

(obsolete) A shrewd person.

Instancenoun

(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.

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Dungeonnoun

(games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure and bosses.

Instancenoun

Occasion; order of occurrence.

Dungeonnoun

(BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.

Instancenoun

A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.

Dungeonverb

(transitive) To imprison in a dungeon.

Instancenoun

One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.

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Dungeonnoun

the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

Instancenoun

(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).

Dungeonnoun

a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined

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

to instance a fact

Instanceverb

(intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.

Instancenoun

an occurrence of something;

it was a case of bad judgmentanother instance occurred yesterdaybut there is always the famous example of the Smiths

Instancenoun

an item of information that is representative of a type;

this patient provides a typical example of the syndromethere is an example on page 10

Instanceverb

clarify by giving an example of