prompting
催促,提示性的,提示性,促使
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prompt·er, prompt·est.
- : done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- : ready in action; quick to act as occasion demands: They were trained to be prompt and competent for any emergency.
- : quick or alert: You're too prompt to take offense.
- : punctual: She's never prompt in arriving for work, yet she's always the first to leave at the end of the day.
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- : to move or induce to action: What prompted you to say that?
- : to occasion or incite; inspire: What prompted his resignation?
- : to assist by suggesting something to be said: It's obvious that this witness has been prompted into giving false testimony.
- : Theater. to supply from offstage with a missed cue or forgotten line: I focused on prompting our Cyrano, who had become strangely disoriented.
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- : Theater. to supply forgotten lines, lyrics, or the like to an actor, singer, etc.: I've got a one-line walk-on in the first scene, but for the rest of the play, I'll be prompting.
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- : Commerce. a limit of time given for payment for merchandise purchased, the limit being stated on a note of reminder .the contract setting the time limit.
- : the act of prompting.
- : something serving to suggest or remind: They send an email once a month, which is just the prompt I need to pay my bill on time.
- : Computers. a message or symbol from a computer system to a user, generally appearing on a display screen, requesting more information or indicating that the system is ready for user instructions: When the prompt appears, provide your access code.
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Examples
That prompted grumbling from industry competitors, but Trek’s claims went largely unexamined, and the controversy faded.
This has prompted some to suggest we should instead create a distributed network of smaller quantum computers that can work together to simulate a larger one.
They are often used as a call-to-action as they might prompt a viewer to read or learn more about a topic by clicking on the internal link, or else ask a viewer to contact you or schedule a visit.
That belief prompted two teachers unions to call for her removal from the House Education Committee — one of her new committee assignments.
Several clusters of cases related to a new viral variant have emerged in his area, prompting schools to delay their start dates.
God has to continually prompt and prod him, and puts his brother Aaron at his side to do most of the real leadership.
Fears that the plot was in the final stages helped prompt U.S. airstrikes against al Qaeda positions in Syria.
For most people, just saying the name Manson is enough to prompt discomfort.
These poll numbers again prompt the question: How could Al Gore lose in 2000?!
Mamoon and his second wife, Liana, hope it will revive his reputation, and “prompt the reissuing of his books in forty languages.”
Whatever can be done to bring about the prompt and effective use of this new system of bank settlement will be done.
It is a notable fact that under the wholly unusual circumstances prevailing, the recovery was so prompt and effective.
Perhaps their course is wiser than that which hot impatience would prompt—nay, I believe it is.
A little practice makes the pupil prompt in dealing with any figures whatever.
They have now (I suppose) reaped the harvest thereof, except that of the trees they planted, which are not so prompt in bearing.