Meaning

5 senses
  1. A reminder or cue.

    A word, phrase or line supplied by a prompter to an actor who has forgotten the script.

  2. A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.

  3. A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.

    I filled in my name where the prompt appeared on the computer screen, but my account wasn't recognized.

    Eingabeaufforderung

    подска́зкаpodskázka, приглаше́ниеpriglašénije, промптprompt

    підка́зкаpidkázka, запро́шенняzapróšennja

    (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command

  4. Textual input given to a large language model or image model in order to have it generate a desired output.

    I struggled to come up with a prompt that would give me the exact image I had in mind.

    Prompt, KI-Anweisung

  5. (dated)A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.

Examples

58 sentences
  1. What prompted you to do that?

    Чому ви це зробили? — aandrusiak

  2. I was wondering what prompted that decision.

    Мені було цікаво, що призвело до такого рішення. — Ahha

  3. Thank you for your prompt reply.

    Дякуємо за швидку відповідь. — deniko

    ruСпасибо за быстрый ответ. — marafon

    deVielen Dank für die schnelle Antwort. — boscowitch

  4. His prompt action prevented an epidemic.

    ruЕго оперативные действия предотвратили эпидемию. — odexed

  5. Tom was promised a prompt reply.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
a reminder or cue:
a computer prompt:
Русский
By meaning 2
a reminder or cue:
a computer prompt:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a computer prompt:
textual input given to a LLM:

Origin

The adjective is from Middle English prompte, from Middle French prompt and its etymon Lat

The adjective is from Middle English prompte, from Middle French prompt and its etymon Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”). Doublet of pronto.

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Forms

plural: prompts
Singularprompt
Pluralprompts

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command:command prompt
  • a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken):prompting

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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