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Українська
By meaning 2
to lead someone toward what they should say or do:
to show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing:
Русский
By meaning 2
to lead someone toward what they should say or do:
to show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to lead someone toward what they should say or do:
to show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing:
to cause or lead to:
to give instructions to an artificial intelligence system:

Examples

53 sentences

  1. What prompted you to do that?

    Чому ви це зробили? — aandrusiak

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  2. I was wondering what prompted that decision.

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

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  3. What prompted you to move out?

    Що спонукало вас виїхати? — Ahha

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Meaning

6 senses

  1. (transitive)To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.

    I prompted him to get a new job.

    veranlassen, dazu bringen, antreiben

    побужда́тьpobuždátʹ, внуша́тьvnušátʹ

    спонука́тиsponukáty, заохо́чуватиzaoxóčuvaty

  2. (transitive)To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

    If he forgets his words I will prompt him.

    vorsagen, vormachen

    подска́зыватьpodskázyvatʹ, суфли́роватьsuflírovatʹ

    підка́зуватиpidkázuvaty, підказа́тиpidkazáty

  3. (transitive)To initiate; to cause or lead to.

    verursachen

More meanings 3

  1. (transitive)To provide textual input in the form of ordinary language to (an artificial intelligence or language model) to have it generate a desired output.

    I want to prompt this new AI art generator to create an image of a panda riding a bike.

    prompten

  2. (transitive)To say (something) in order to help or encourage someone to speak.

    "How did you solve the issue then?" Jason prompted while staring at Lana.

  3. (transitive)To request (a user) to provide input or do something on a computer.

    The script prompted him to enter his credit account number.

More definitions
  • give an incentive for action
  • serve as the inciting cause of
  • assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

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

prompts, prompting, prompted, prompted

regular · Lesson

Base formprompt · to prompt
3rd person singularprompts
Present participleprompting
Past simpleprompted
Past participleprompted

Tenses

prompt · prompted · will prompt · have prompted

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyprompt
he, she, itprompts

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave prompted
he, she, ithas prompted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill prompt

Past simpleLesson

all personsprompted

Synonyms

62 synonyms
To lead toward what they should say or do:counselC2adviseA2encourageA2urgeB2recommendB1suggestA2tipB2warnB1exhortadmonishadjureadvocate
To initiate:provokeC1fuelB1sendA2cheerA2drawA1driveA2engenderC2evokeC1grillB1induceC2invokeB2motiveB1motivateB1moveA2
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words
Relatedpromptingprompter
Derivedpromptablepromptinglypromptressprompturereprompt

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
promoterpromotionB1promotionalpromptlyB2proneC2prong

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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