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Prompt

adjective

(compar. prompter; superl. promptest)

1.

According to schedule or without delay; on time.

2.

Ready and willing or quick to act.

3.

Performed with little or no delay. Synonyms: immediate, quick, straightaway. "A prompt reply" , "Was quick to respond" , "A straightaway denial"

verb

(past & past part. prompted; pres. part. prompting)

1.

Give an incentive for action. Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel.

2.

Serve as the inciting cause of. Synonyms: inspire, instigate.

3.

Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned. Synonyms: cue, remind.

noun

1.

A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken). Synonym: prompting.

2.

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

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... them perpetually. That they are destined ultimately to extinction does not in my mind admit of a doubt. For the reasons above mentioned it may at first be necessary for our government to assert its authority over them by a prompt and vigorous exercise of the military arm.... The tendency of the policy I have indicated will be to assemble these people in communities where they will be more readily controlled; and I predict from it the ...

— The Passing of the Frontier - A Chronicle of the Old West, Volume 26 in The Chronicles - Of America Series • Emerson Hough

... but, like his famous ancestor and namesake, he had a gibing tongue, which was evidence of a scrutiny tolerably cool of the shifts of human nature. Human nature, he had observed, must needs account to itself for itself. If it met with what it did not understand, it was prompt to state the problem in a phrase which it could not explain. The simplicity of the plan was as little to be denied as its convenience was obvious. It was thus that Can Grande II. understood the emotions of Verona; it was thus, indeed, that he himself, confronted with statements ...

— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... stand in the right place, and sees nothing at all. It was gone a moment. Then the admiral saw it moving up and down. "It may be an indication of land," admitted Rodrigo Sanchez; but Columbus was certain, and his orders were prompt and imperative: a strict watch to be kept upon the forecastle, and for him who should first see land a silken jacket and the reward promised by ...

— Ten Great Events in History • James Johonnot

... under such conditions requires not only a considerable capital, but close business management as well. Some of the results have been very far-reaching. The machinery and other equipments require capital, and this in late years has been borrowed from Eastern capitalists. The prompt business methods of the money-lender brought about no little friction, and it is only within recent years that each adjusted himself to the requirements of ...

— Commercial Geography - A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges • Jacques W. Redway

... predominantly Muslim southern provinces prompt border closures and controls with Malaysia to stem terrorist activities; southeast Asian states have enhanced border surveillance to check the spread of avian flu; talks continue on completion of demarcation with Laos but disputes remain over several islands in the Mekong ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

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