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prompt

(prŏmpt)

adj. prompt·er, prompt·est

1. Being on time; punctual.

2. Carried out or performed without delay: a prompt reply.

tr.v. prompt·ed, prompt·ing, prompts

1. To move to act; spur; incite: A noise prompted the guard to go back and investigate.

2. To give rise to; inspire: The accident prompted a review of school safety policy.

3. To assist with a reminder; remind.

4. To assist (an actor or reciter) by providing the next words of a forgotten passage; cue.

a. The act of prompting or giving a cue.

b. A reminder or cue.

2. Computers A symbol that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input.

3. Something which inspires a response, especially a statement or series of questions designed to provoke creative or critical thought from a student: In English class today, the teacher gave us the prompt for our final essay.

[Middle English, ready, from Old French, from Latin prōmptus, from past participle of prōmere, to bring forth : prō-, forth; see pro-¹ + emere, to take, obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots.]

prompt′er n.

promp′ti·tude′ (prŏmp′tĭ-to͞od′, -tyo͞od′), prompt′ness (prŏmpt′nĭs) n.

prompt′ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

prompting

(ˈprɒmptɪŋ)

1. the act of refreshing the memory of

2. the act of giving rise to by suggestion

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Noun	1.	prompting - persuasion formulated as a suggestion suggestion persuasion, suasion - the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
	2.	prompting - a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting" prompt cue - an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech

prompting

noun urging, pressing, pressure, pushing, influence, reminding, suggestion, hint, assistance, reminder, encouragement, jogging, persuasion, prodding, incitement, clarion call, geeing-up The refugees need no prompting to describe what happened to them.

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Translations

prompting

[ˈprɒmptɪŋ] N without prompting (lit) → sin tener que consultar el texto; (= on one's own initiative) → por iniciativa propia, motu propio
the promptings of conscience → los escrúpulos de la conciencia

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

prompting

[ˈprɒmptɪŋ] n

(= encouragement) → encouragements mpl

(= urge)
the promptings of your subconscious → les messages de votre subconscient

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

prompting

(Theat) → Soufflieren nt

the promptings of conscience/the heart → die Stimme des Gewissens/Herzens

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

prompting

[ˈprɒmptɪŋ] n → imbeccata, suggerimento

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"That is how she thanks me for prompting her, is it?

"Serves you right for prompting her," said Miss Carpenter.

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He said no more, but went up-stairs to Rosamond, who had but lately finished dressing herself, and sat languidly wondering what she should do next, her habitual industry in small things, even in the days of her sadness, prompting her to begin some kind of occupation, which she dragged through slowly or paused in from lack of interest.

Casaubon-- this woman who predominated in all things concerning her--must have come now with the sense of having the advantage, and with animosity prompting her to use it.

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"Your prompting to go to your nearest friends,--to remain where all the ties of your life have been formed,--is a true prompting, to which the Church in its original constitution and discipline responds, opening its arms to the penitent, watching over its children to the last; never abandoning them until they are hopelessly reprobate.

All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims, and that to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

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She instantly sent the man behind the scene with a message: "Miss Vanstone has done her part in the rehearsal; request her to come here and sit by me." The servant returned with a polite apology: "Miss Vanstone's kind love, and she begs to be excused -- she's prompting Mr.

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But being one day at Hull, where I went casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time; but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should cost me nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's, without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for London.

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Had I gone on here I had perhaps been a true penitent; but I had an evil counsellor within, and he was continually prompting me to relieve myself by the worst means; so one evening he tempted me again, by the same wicked impulse that had said

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CueScript, a developer of professional prompting solutions, will bring the patent-pending SMPTE 2110-enabled prompting monitor, the CSMV2, to Europe for the first time at IBC2019.

CueScript to debut SMPTE 2110 IP connectivity monitor

For one participant, there was no difference in training effectiveness, however for the other participant, vocal prompting was a more effective training technique.

A Comparison of Task Analysis Training Procedures

The progressive prompting strategy could help learners to solve problems based on various levels of hints.

Effects of a Progressive Prompting-based Educational Game on Second Graders' Mathematics Learning Performance and Behavioral Patterns

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