Definition of "prompt"

prompt

/pɹɒmpt/

adjective
comparative more prompt, superlative most prompt
1. Quick; acting without delay.
2. On time; punctual.
3. (archaic) Ready; willing to act.
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  Tell him, I am prompt / To lay my Crowne at's feete, and there to kneele.
  1623, William Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra, act 3, scene 8
4. (finance) Front: closest or nearest, in futures trading.
  Quotations
  When physical crude oil transactions are priced, they are usually marked to the prompt month futures contract. The prompt month futures contract is the next futures contract to settle.
  2013 July 5, Davis W. Edwards, Energy Investing DeMystified: A Self-Teaching Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, page 19
  The settlement ratio is determined as follows: i) If the prompt futures price of coal at maturity is less than or equal to the floor price, the ratio will be one.
  2021 May 11, Neil C. Schofield, Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, page 448
noun
plural prompts
1. A reminder or cue.
  1. (writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.
2. (business, dated) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.
  Quotations
  To cover any probable difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [tea] is three months.
  1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]
3. (computing) A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.
4. (machine learning) Textual input given to a large language model in order to have it generate a desired output.
  Quotations
  For instance, using the “instruct” mode, I once gave GPT-3 the prompt: “Write an essay discussing the role of metafiction in the work of Italo Calvino.”
  2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times‎
verb
third-person singular simple present prompts, present participle prompting, simple past and past participle prompted
1. (transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
2. (transitive, theater and television) To show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.
3. (transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.
  Quotations
  The only sour note on a virtually perfect night for England came from shameful 'monkey' chanting aimed at Ashley Cole and Ashley Young from a section of Bulgaria's fans which later prompted an official complaint from the Football Association to Uefa.
  2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC‎
  On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
  2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27

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