Prompt



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 促使, 激起; adj. 敏捷的, 迅速的
• ［英］ v. 促使, 激起 ( to move to action; incite) ; adj. 敏捷的, 迅速的 ( ready and quick to act as occasion demands)
• ［同］ 派生词: promptness ( n. 敏捷, 迅速)

Webster Collegiate

I. transitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin promptare, from Latin promptus prompt
• Date: 14th century
• 1. to move to action ; incite
• 2. to assist (one acting or reciting) by suggesting or saying the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned ; cue
• 3. to serve as the inciting cause of <evidence prompting an investigation>
• ? prompter noun

II. adjective

• Date: 1784
• of or relating to prompting actors

III. adjective

• Etymology: Middle English, from Latin promptus ready, prompt, from past participle of promere to bring forth, from pro- forth + emere to take — more at redeem
• Date: 15th century
• 1. being ready and quick to act as occasion demands
• 2. performed readily or immediately <prompt assistance>
• Synonyms: see quick
• ? promptly adverb
• ? promptness noun

IV. noun (plural prompts)

• Date: circa 1531
• 1. \［prompt (I)\］ something that prompts ; reminder
• 2. \［prompt (III)\］ a limit of time given for payment of an account for goods purchased; also the contract by which this time is fixed

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