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  1. adjective Being on time; punctual.
  2. adjective Carried out or performed without delay: a prompt reply.
  3. transitive verb To move to act; spur; incite: A noise prompted the guard to go back and investigate.
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  • When the user provides a login ID, a password prompt is given. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 4 -- Just Who Can Be Hacked, Anyway?
  • Yes, the prompt is a personal, portable, Artificial Intelligence, there to supply our Watcher with a limitless source of information and advice. —  F ;SF - vol 100 issue 04 - April 2001
  • You are presented with a login prompt ( Username: ) and a password prompt. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 19 -- T
  • The move to put Kim Jong Un in charge of the agency illustrates the elder Kim's concern about any possible backlash that the father-to-son succession could prompt, the Dong-a said. —  IBTimes.com RSS Feed - Politics & Policy
  • This means developers are now able to recompile tlb files using the command line prompt, and even edit a tlb file using a text editor, while still keeping track of its version. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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speedy ·  timely ·  immediate ·  decisive ·  unconditional ·  tardy ·  straightforward ·  curt ·  effectual ·  forcible ·  hasty ·  voluntary

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prompt:   prompted ·  prompting ·  prompts
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  1. Middle English, ready, from Old French, from Latin prōmptus, from past participle of prōmere, to bring forth : prō-, forth; see pro-1 + emere, to take, obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English *prompt, from Old French (and F.) prompt = Spanish pronto = Portuguese prompto = Italian pronto, from Latin promptus, promtus, visible, apparent, evident, at hand, prepared, ready, quick, prompt, inclined, disposed, past participle of promere, take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light, from pro, forth, forward, + emere, take, acquire, buy: see emption.
  2. from Middle English prompten; from prompt, adjective
  3. from prompt, v.
 

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