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Prompting definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROMPT'ING, ppr. Inciting; moving to action; aiding a speaker when at a loss for the words of his piece.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: persuasion formulated as a suggestion [syn: suggestion, prompting]
2: a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting" [syn: prompt, prompting]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Prompt Prompt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prompted; p. pr. & vb. n. Prompting.] 1. To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite. God first . . . prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To suggest; to dictate. And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams. --Pope. 3. To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(promptings) If you respond to prompting, you do what someone encourages or reminds you to do. ...the promptings of your subconscious. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Moby Thesaurus

actuation, aide-memoire, animation, cue, direction, flapper, hint, influence, inner-direction, jogger, memorandum, motivation, moving, other-direction, prompt, prompter, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, stimulation, tickler