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English Dictionary: Prompt	by the DICT Development Group
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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
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.
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.