Dungeon vs. Instance: What's the Difference?
Dungeon and Instance Definitions
Dungeon
A dark, often underground chamber used to confine prisoners.
Instance
An example that is cited to prove or invalidate a contention or illustrate a point.
Dungeon
A donjon.
Instance
A case or an occurrence
In all such instances, let conscience be your guide.
Dungeon
An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
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Instance
A step in a process or series of events
You should apply in the first instance to the personnel manager.
Dungeon
(obsolete) The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.
Instance
A suggestion or request
Called at the instance of his attorney.
Dungeon
(obsolete) A shrewd person.
Instance
(Archaic) Urgent solicitation or entreaty.
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Dungeon
(games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure and bosses.
Instance
To offer as an example; cite
"I assured her that I was interested in garbage, and instanced the fact that I had once been a garbage inspector myself" (Jane Addams).
Dungeon
(BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.
Instance
To demonstrate or show by an example; exemplify
"how absurd it often is to cite a single line from ... a poem for the purpose of instancing the perfection or imperfection of the line's rhythm" (Edgar Allan Poe).
Dungeon
(transitive) To imprison in a dungeon.
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Instance
(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
Dungeon
A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
Down with him even into the deep dungeon.
Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon.
Instance
(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Dungeon
To shut up in a dungeon.
Instance
(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
Dungeon
The main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
Instance
(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
Dungeon
A dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
Instance
Occasion; order of occurrence.
Instance
A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
Instance
One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
Instance
(computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
Instance
(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.
Instance
(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
Instance
(Internet) An independent server on the decentralised social networking platform Mastodon.
Instance
(transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
Instance
(intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
Instance
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Undertook at her instance to restore them.
Instance
That which is instant or urgent; motive.
The instances that second marriage moveAre base respects of thrift, but none of love.
Instance
Occasion; order of occurrence.
These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance.
Instance
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.
Most remarkable instances of suffering.
Instance
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
Instance
To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
I shall not instance an abstruse author.
Instance
To give an example.
This story doth not only instance in kingdoms, but in families too.
Instance
An occurrence of something;
It was a case of bad judgment
Another instance occurred yesterday
But there is always the famous example of the Smiths
Instance
An item of information that is representative of a type;
This patient provides a typical example of the syndrome
There is an example on page 10
Instance
Clarify by giving an example of
