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English Dictionary: prompt |
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3 results for prompt |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- prompt
- adj
- according to schedule or without delay; on time; "the
train is prompt"
- ready and willing or quick to act; "she is always prompt to help her friends";
- performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
Synonym(s): immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway
- n
- a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the
next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting"
Synonym(s): prompt, prompting
- (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command
Synonym(s): prompt, command prompt
- v
- give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice
my career"
Synonym(s): motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite
- serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives"
Synonym(s): prompt, inspire, instigate
- assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
Synonym(s): prompt, remind, cue
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Prompt \Prompt\, n. (Com.)
A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce
purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See
{Prompt-note}.
To cover any probable difference of price which might
arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for
this article [tea] is three months. --J. S. Mill.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Prompt \Prompt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prompted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Prompting}.]
1. To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to
instigate; to incite.
God first . . . prompted on the infirmities of the
infant world by temporal prosperity. --Jer. Taylor.
2. To suggest; to dictate.
And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams.
--Pope.
3. To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics
forgotten.
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