Crossword clues for prompt
prompt
- On time to assist an erring actor?
- Suggest appearing on time
- Speed effortlessly through part, not needing this?
- Reminder for politician to attend closing of parliament
- Refresh the memory - on time
- Punctual reminder on stage
- Bring about; on time
- Jog and play boisterously in gym
- Timely reminder
- Timely cue
- On the dot
- Right on time
- Not tardy
- Nudge, maybe
- Line on a cue card
- Immediate — supply forgotten words
- Help out on a line
- Give a cue to
- Attentive to the schedule
- "Enter password," e.g
- Give a hint
- Exactly on time
- Cue in
- Cause
- A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)
- (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command
- On time
- Not dilatory
- Throw a line to an actor
- Supply a cue
- Quick to respond to urge
- Quick reminder
- Quick pint after concert
- Quick pint following concert
- Quick and easy victory in gymnastics
- Concert exercises performed at once
- Cause; on time
- Cause, bring about
- Cause or bring about
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Prompt \Prompt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prompted; p. pr. & vb. n. Prompting.]
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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.
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To suggest; to dictate.
And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams.
--Pope. To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.
Prompt \Prompt\ (pr[o^]mt; 215), a. [Compar. Prompter; superl. Promptest.] [F. prompt, L. promptus, properly, brought forth (to light or view), hence, visible, evident, at hand, ready, quick, -- p. p. of promere to take or bring forth; pro forth + emere to take. See Redeem. ]
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Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; -- said of persons.
Very discerning and prompt in giving orders.
--Clarendon.Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet.
--Shak.And you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies.
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Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately; given without delay or hesitation; -- said of conduct; as, prompt assistance.
When Washington heard the voice of his country in distress, his obedience was prompt.
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Easy; unobstructed. [Obs.]
The reception of the light into the body of the building was very prompt.
--Sir H. Wotton.Syn: Ready; expeditious; quick; agile; alert; brisk; nimble.
Usage: Prompt, Ready, Expeditious. One who is ready is prepared to act at the moment. One who is prompt acts at the moment. One who is expeditious carries through an undertaking with constant promptness.
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.
early 15c., from Old French prompt and directly from Latin promptus "brought forth," hence "visible, apparent, evident," past participle of promere "to take or bring out or forth" (see prompt (v.)).Related: Promptly; promptitude.
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 different goods. 3 (context computing English) A symbol that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input. 4 (context writing English) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author. v
(lb en transitive) To lead someone toward what they should say or do.
WordNet
n. a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting" [syn: prompting]
(computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command [syn: command prompt]
adj. according to schedule or without delay; "they were always on time"; "a prompt reply" [syn: on time]
characterized by speed and efficiency [syn: expeditious, timesaving]
quick in apprehending or reacting; "a prompt (or ready) response"; "a prompt smile"
performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial" [syn: immediate, quick, straightaway]
v. give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move, incite]
serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives" [syn: inspire, instigate]
assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned [syn: remind, cue]
Wikipedia
- redirect Environment variable#%PROMPT%
Category:DOS environment variables Category:OS/2 environment variables
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 the display of the command prompt
- PROMPT (environment variable), a DOS, OS/2 and Windows environment variable to control the display of the command prompt
- Prompt (theatre) or "prompter", in theatre, the person who prompts an actor when they forget their next line
- Prompt corner or prompt box, the location at the side of the stage where the prompt is located
- writing prompt, in writing instruction, a short description of a situation, character or constraint intended to inspire creativity
- Prompt critical, in nuclear engineering, the state of an assembly when for each nuclear fission event, one or more of the immediate or prompt neutrons released causes an additional fission event
- Prompt neutron, in nuclear engineering, a neutron immediately emitted by a nuclear fission event, as opposed to a delayed neutron
- PROMPT Telescopes, an array of telescopes located at CTIO which are designed to rapidly observe gamma-ray burst afterglows simultaneously in multiple filters
The prompt (sometimes prompter) in a theatre is traditionally the person who prompts or cues actors when they forget their lines or neglect to move on the stage to where they are supposed to be situated.
Nowadays, many of the earlier duties of the prompter are undertaken by the stage manager, who will have a copy of the script called the prompt book. This is the most definitive version of the script for any one performance, and will contain details of all cues, with their precise timings with respect to the action on stage. This allows the prompt to direct lighting, sound, flying effects and scene changes during a show. The prompt book also often contains blocking notes, so that the prompt is always aware of the intended positions and movements of all the actors on stage at any given time.
In some professional and high-quality community theatre productions, the prompt is never used during a performance to instruct actors if they forget a line or movement, only during a rehearsal. If prompting is absolutely necessary, it is done very quietly by another actor on-stage.
The prompt is located on the stage, in the prompt corner or "prompt side."
In Elizabethan theatre the function of prompting was filled by the Book-Holder, who was also in charge of props and calls.
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.