Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of inciting, instigating, suggesting, or reminding.
- n. An incitement or impulse, especially from inner desires or motives: as, the promptings of affection.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of prompt.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)
- n. persuasion formulated as a suggestion
Examples
“Mills isn't alone in criticizing "cloud computing," with overuse of the term prompting backlash from others.”
“A place where taking instant offense at imagined slights and flying off the handle at no prompting is considered de rigueur”
“Stress is a major trigger for most smokers and a significant factor in prompting both straight and gay people to smoke more, delay quitting or to relapse.”
The Huffington Post: Craig Newmark: Help quitting smoking and the LGBT community
“The firm felt management sent a bearish message to investors during the call prompting the price target revision.”
“No soul-sucking sword, either, just a not overly well sharpened kitchen knife to face the monsters, demons, and crazed magic-wielders, after a bit of prompting from a showy fiery sword wielding angelic not overly helpful type.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Subterranean Bundle November 2007 - William Schafer
“After prompting from the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, two leading British Catholic journals now publish weekly information on the Liturgical Calendar for the Extraordinary Form.”
“For instance, one word he blurts out without prompting is "hair," which confuses Detective Lincoln because, as he says, "the guy we've got downstairs is bald" (p. 157).”
“WUKY pulled the spots with no prompting from the FCC at all.”
“Last week, I described a nightmare scenario in which the Republicans won the midterm prompting the president, high on mandate juice, to form the Department of Shut The F*** Up, headed by a sock puppet named Secretary Fiddlesticks.”
“Excellent job by Kerry in prompting those reactions by Bush.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘prompting’.
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attribute, sticking, distinct, perseverance, trend, clarify, avoidant, ambivalent, disoriented, cling, prompting, appositive and 94 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
Tweets
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