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prompt

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Word definitions for prompt in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Prompt may refer to: Command prompt , in computing, one or more characters in a command line interface to indicate that the computer is ready to accept typed input PROMPT (command) , a DOS, OS/2 and Windows command under COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE to control ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "readiness," from Latin promptus (see prompt (v.)). Meaning "hint, act of prompting" is from 1590s. Computer sense attested by 1977.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context archaic English) Ready, willing (to act). 2 quick, acting without delay. 3 On time, punctual. n. 1 A reminder or cue. 2 (context business dated English) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with ...

Usage examples of prompt.

Bono, I value your advice very highly, and still more highly the kindly feelings which prompt you, but you must allow me to follow my own opinion in this case.

The two men, instead of being alike, were in fact signal contrasts in all that appertains to the talent for administration, to the quick discernment of the time for action, and to the prompt execution of whatever policy might be announced.

The antivenin to Thesali viper poison was known to cause great hunger after the poison was introduced, and Theebles had never been one to need much prompting toward food.

As a soothing, astringing and healing application to the affected parts we prepare an Ointment that has acquired great fame for the prompt relief which it affords in all ordinary cases.

Without prompting, the bartender served Sivrak his regular order-a mug of crushed Gilden, organ tendrils still writhing, attesting to their freshness.

It was easy to picture him as a short, bespectacled physics teacher, one whose utter lack of physical assurance would prompt such curial devotion to the rubrics of the actual.

How tempting, how tantalizing, Bree thought, wishing it had come ages ago without prompting, without the need to rectify their undeclared war on each other.

Alternate Director letter which, although much creased by now through having been folded into my shirt pocket for the cross-country expedition, worked its customary suspension of prompt ejection, and, smooth man that he was, he listened courteously to my plea for the workers at the brewery to receive their wages as usual for this present week, and for the pensioners to be paid also, while the insolvency practitioner, Mrs.

This distinction between the general and the troops entrusted to his command, and at the same time the prompt surrender of Mantua, were circumstances which, it must be confessed, were calculated to excite suspicions of Latour-Foissac.

As a rule, Martialists are both, and not without reason, to believe any unsupported statement that might be prompted by interest or vanity.

Gore wishes to see him in his room has a metter of hurgency at nine hey hem prompt.

American War Machine was but a gigantic, lumbering erection wedged into the tight pants of Democracy, stifled until the outburst of war prompts congressional rubbing and legislative foreplay and the uncontrollable spurting ejaculation of bombs and missles ensues as the nation COMES on the heads of a nation of Third World villagers.

The Montayne disaster, fresh in all their minds, had prompted the remark.

May it know how the mind in expansion revolts From a nursery Past with dead letters aloof, And the piping to stupor of Precedents shun, In a field where the forefather print of the hoof Is not yet overgrassed by the watering hours, And should prompt us to Change, as to promise of sun, Till brain-rule splendidly towers.

Following the prompts of their implants, the small group of parolees quickly filled the buckets with rusty water and then rushed over to the back door.