detect vs instantiate

detect and instantiate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
detect	No	No	Yes	No
instantiate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, instantiate is a hyponym of detect; that is, instantiate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than detect:

detect: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
instantiate: find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)

Other hyponyms of detect include catch out, find out, sense, trace, see.

detect (verb)	instantiate (verb)
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes	find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)
	represent by an instance