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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prototype \Pro"to*type\, n. [F., from L. prototypus original, primitive, Gr. ?, ?; ? first + ? type, model. See Proto- , and Type ] An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or ...
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Prototype is an American progressive metal band from Los Angeles , California , formed in 1994. The band's current line-up comprises vocalist/guitarist Vince Levalois, guitarist Kragen Lum, bassist Kirk Scherer and drummer Pat Magrath. Bassists Stephen ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 An original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations 2 An early sample or model built to test a concept or process 3 (context semantics English) An instance of a category or a concept that combines ...
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n. a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: paradigm , epitome , image ]
Usage examples of prototype.
Darts are also improvised from blady grass by two other methods, each a prototype of the spear and wommera.
The roses were still in bloom, and the peonies, destined to serve as prototypes for countless penwipers, were still just coming out.
Lusitano-French planispheres, which is represented by several specimens, all of which are copies from a prototype which has either been destroyed or has not yet been found.
California State and local governments to prepare an integrated prototype preparedness plan to respond to a catastrophic earthquake in Southern California or to a prediction of such an event.
Then we found an all-night silk screener in Hoxton, and they made up the prototypes for us.
His statement is not inconsistent with the possibility that he had the hunter Shipman chiefly in mind as the prototype of Leather-Stocking, with some characteristics added from other hunters, of whom there were many in the early days of Cooperstown.
Monumental prototypes for the Tibetan terraced stupa have been excavated in Bengal and Bihar.
An earlier six prototypes, tested half a tenner previously, had all failed to work.
All has its origin and prototype in the Triune God, and throughout expresses unity in triplicity and triplicity in unity, without which there is no real being and no actual or possible life.
We are not prototypes of things yet unwombed of Time, but part of a change that is.
The prototype whatsit Ashton had been tinkering with caused a flood of speculation which left a thin sediment of hard fact.
The New York JTTF, which partnered seasoned detectives like Napoli with FBI agents like Anticev, became a prototype for sixty-five similar units around the country.
As the Caledonian savages danced through that long-gone night, a thousand years, perhaps, before the prototypes of Joseph Smith, John Alexander Dowie and Aimee Semple Mc-Pherson envisaged the Star of Bethlehem, a new sun looked down upon the distant land of the Athapascans and another scene--American Indian savages.
On Mangalavid they saw programs about a fusion prototype in Chasma Borealis.
Hephaistion would not consider his proposal, and even Eumenes was skeptical, until Casey put together a hasty, toy-sized prototype to demonstrate the idea.