Usually means: Cue that initiates a response.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word prompt:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. prompt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prompt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prompt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prompt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prompt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prompt, prompt: Wordnik
  7. prompt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prompt: Wiktionary
  9. prompt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prompt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prompt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prompt, prompt: Dictionary.com
  13. prompt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prompt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PROMPT (DOS command), PROMPT (telescope), Prompt (theatre), Prompt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prompt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prompt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prompt: Rhymezone
  19. prompt, prompt, prompt(e), prompt (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prompt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prompt: Free Dictionary
  22. prompt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prompt: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. prompt: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  2. prompt: Legal dictionary

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. prompt: Netlingo
  2. prompt: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. prompt: Hacking Lexicon
  5. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  6. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  7. prompt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prompt: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PROMPT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prompt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Quick; acting without delay.
adjective:  On time; punctual.
adjective:  (archaic) Ready; willing to act.
adjective:  (finance) Front: closest or nearest, in futures trading.
noun:  A reminder or cue.
noun:  (writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.
noun:  (business, dated) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.
noun:  (computing) A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.
noun:  (machine learning) Textual input given to a large language model or image model in order to have it generate a desired output.
verb:  (transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
verb:  (transitive) To say (something) in order to help or encourage someone to speak.
verb:  (transitive, theater and television) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.
verb:  (transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To request (a user) to provide input or do something on a computer.
verb:  (transitive, machine learning) To provide textual input in the form of ordinary language to (an artificial intelligence or language model) to have it generate a desired output.

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