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Definition: Prompting |
PromptingNoun1. The act of suggesting; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse". 2. A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prompting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | To inform a user that a system is ready for the next command, element, or other input. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PromptingSynonyms: prompt (n), suggestion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Suggestion; (information); prompting; Verb: hint, reminder; remembrancer, flapper; memorial; (record); commemoration; (celebration). |
Motive | Persuasibility, persuasibleness; attractability; impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization. influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation; (excitation of feeling); inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice; solicitation; (request); lobbyism; pull. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prompting |
| English words defined with "prompting": For ♦ lachrymatory, lacrimatory ♦ meaty ♦ Of one's self ♦ Prompture ♦ Submonition, substantive ♦ unplanned. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prompting": MANAGER, STAGE ♦ Tariff Act of 1930. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Balloon barrage training center. Aerial octopus. This strange looking creature is a tail view of one of the barrage balloons prompting the above title. The lower fin is filled with gas last as it is slowly raised from the ground. Camp Tyson, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | These he peddles still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut its kernel. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Vaccines work in part by prompting the body to generate antibodies. (references) | |
Craniopharyngiomas also cause a lack of most pituitary hormones, prompting a combination of some of the symptoms previously described for tumors that induce a deficiency of single pituitary hormones. (references) | ||
The benefit of standard warfarin therapy over the combination therapy became apparent to the investigators early in the trial, prompting them to stop the trial in 1996 and recommend standard warfarin therapy, administered under strict medical supervision, for all patients over 75 with AF and additional stroke risk factors. (references) | ||
Business | This fitness craze of unprecedented scale and intensity is prompting growing numbers of people to go to the studios. (references) | |
The Chinese government has recently undertaken an inquiry to understand the drop in overall new foreign investment in China, prompting a more open debate on how best to attract foreign money. (references) | ||
The quantity of food wastes in Korea is rapidly increasing as the country's landfill space continues to decrease prompting the country to move to incineration and recycling to solve this problem. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Korea | During the year the Government conducted a massive tax and trade law investigation of major media firms, prompting criticism and suspicion that it was attempting to curb media criticism of the Government. (references) |
Croatia | However, the new supervisory board did not replace the HRT director, prompting the HRT council president to resign in protest in October. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Security forces killed two persons when the government confronted the rally with force, prompting further demonstrations. (references) | |
Economic History | Eritrea | In 1988, the EPLF captured Afabet, headquarters of the Ethiopian Army in northeastern Eritrea, prompting the Ethiopian Army to withdraw from its garrisons in Eritrea's western lowlands. (references) |
Mauritius | The two ministers had to resign, prompting the Prime Minister to call for early elections in September 2000. One of the main themes of the election campaign was corruption and the party then in power lost the elections. (references) | |
Afghanistan | Tajik rebels based in Afghanistan in July 1993 attacked a Russian border outpost in Tajikistan, killing 25 Russians and prompting Russian retaliatory strikes, which caused extensive damage in northern Afghanistan. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | For undetermined reasons, one soldier opened fire, prompting others to fire as well. (references) |
Political Economy | UKRAINE | In October 2000 the Supreme Court of Ukraine began consideration of a constitutional challenge to the law, and in November the court found several provisions of the law unconstitutional, prompting both a positive response from the ILO and the refusal by the USTR to consider the AFL-CIO's petition on Ukraine. (references) |
Zambia | The electoral process preceding the November 1996 elections was flawed, prompting a boycott by UNIP. (references) | |
Trade | Vietnam | Many of the new loans are seen to be less commercially viable than the loans already in the SOCBs portfolios, prompting experts to be bearish on chance that a large number of these loans will not default. (references) |
Travel | Ecuador | Since 1999, several U.S. government employees and private U.S. citizens have been victimized in the Mariscal Sucre district, prompting the U.S. Embassy to put certain bars off-limits and to declare a nighttime curfew in the area for its employees. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | When complaints were filed with the Government to remedy cases involving detention of individuals against their will, the Government intervened in accordance with the law, although sometimes only after considerable prompting and passage of time. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Prompting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.79% of the time. "Prompting" is used about 253 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 83.79% | 212 | 20,813 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.07% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.74% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 253 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "prompting": prompting-lines. | |
Ending with "prompting": manner--prompting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
password prompting | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prompting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtytje (boost, dub, impulse, impulsion, impulsiveness, incitement, inducement, jostle, persuasive, poke, pressure, prompt, propulsion, push, repulsion), nxitje (abetment, challenge, cheer, countenance, dare, dig, drive, egging, encouragement, exhortation, fomentation, impetus, impulsion, incentive, incitement, inducement, instancy, instigation, kick, oestrum, oestrus, pressure, prod, prompt, stimulation, stimulus, urge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حض (exhortation, poke, prompt, spur), حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), تلقين (initiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подтик (drive, fillip, goad, hypo, impulse, incentive, inducement, propulsion, push, relish, sanction, spur, stimulus, urge, whet), подкана (invitation, reminding), подбуда (impulse, incentive, inducement, inspiration, motion, motive, persuasive, prod, sanction, spring, spur, stimulus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 提示 (HINT, Prompt, Prompted, reminder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | incitere (to prompt), forespørge (to prompt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitnodigen (invite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kehottaminen (to prompt), kehottaa (admonish, advise encourage, persuade, scold, tell, urge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inciter (prompt, provoke), incitation (prompt, prompt message), donner le feu vert (to prompt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fragend (asking, enquiring, inquiring, inquiringly, interrogating, interrogative, interrogatively, interrogatorily, interrogatory, querying, questioning, questioningly, quizzical, quizzically, requesting), Antrieb (access, account, actuation, drive, fillip, impellent, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitement, motive, movement, propulsion, reason, spur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ειδοποιώ (advise, apprise, inform, notify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sugalmazás (inspiration, instillation), súgás (prompt, whisper), buzdítás (encouragement, exhortation, godspeed), ösztökélés (spur, stimulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | suggerimento (hint, pointer, prompt, suggestion, tip, wrinkle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자극 (irritating, irritation, stimulating, stimulation, Stimuli, stimulus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omptingpray solicitar (appeal, apply, beg, court, file, invite, petition, plea, plead, pray, request, seek, solicit, woo), instigação (instigation, procurement, provocation), incitar (abet, actuate, arouse, awake, egg, egg on, encourage, excite, goad, halloo, impel, incite, instigate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), incitamento (incitement, inducement, instigation, prod, provocation), de levar a, ato de sugerir. (various references) побуждение (drive, exhortation, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitement, inducement, motion, motive, oestrum, oestrus, persuasive, urge). (various references) sufliranje (prompt). (various references) instigación (incitement, instigation), incitar (abet, cheer, encourage, fan, fire, impel, incite, inciter, inspire, instigate, provoke, put up, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, urge, urge on), incitación (abetment, arousal, impulse, incitation, incitement). (various references) omedelbar (direct, immediate, instant, proximate). (various references) telkin (inculcation, infusion, inspiration, suggestion), ilham (afflatus, inspiration, oracle, revelation). (various references) спонукання (abetment, excitement, motivation, push), намовляння, підказування (prompt). (various references) sự xúi giục (abetment, abettal, fomentation, incitation, incitement, instigation, provocation), sự thúc giục, sự thúc đẩy sự nhắc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Prompting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: promptingly, pronating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prompting" (pronounced prÄ"mpting) |
| 5 | -m p t i ng | attempting, exempting, preempting, tempting. |
| 4 | -p t i ng | accepting, adapting, adopting, bankrupting, corrupting, disrupting, erupting, excepting, intercepting, interrupting, opting, sculpting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-o-p-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: tromping. | |
-2 letters: mopping, porting, romping, topping. | |
-3 letters: import, moping, opting, poring, prompt, roping, toping, trigon, tropin. | |
-4 letters: gipon, giron, griot, gript, groin, ingot, intro, minor, nitro, oping, orpin, pingo, pinot, pinto, pirog, piton, point, primo, primp, print, prion, prong, tigon, trigo, tromp. | |
-5 letters: gimp, girn, giro, girt, gorp, grim, grin, grip, grit, grot, inro, into. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-o-p-p-r-t" | |
+3 letters: precomputing. | |
+4 letters: approximating, mousetrapping. | |
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