Case
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: The last remaining card of a particular rank
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A legal proceeding, lawsuit. One of several similar instances or events which are being studied and compared. An instance of grammatical case; a category of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, specialized (usually by inflection) to indicate a particular syntactic relation to other words in a sentence. A set of grammatical cases or their meanings in a particular language collectively. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. An instance of a specific condition or set of symptons. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine. A suitcase. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer. In typography, the nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter. four of a kind A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
Example sentence: We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Instance
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A happening or occurring; an occurrence; an occasion.A case occurring; a case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an example; a token.A piece of evidence; proof.In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
Example sentence: You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.