PROMPTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prompting mean? 

• PROMPTING (noun)
  The noun PROMPTING has 2 senses:

1. persuasion formulated as a suggestion

2. a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)

  Familiarity information: PROMPTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROMPTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Persuasion formulated as a suggestion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

prompting; suggestion

Hypernyms ("prompting" is a kind of...):

persuasion; suasion (the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action)

Derivation:

prompt (serve as the inciting cause of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

prompt; prompting

Context example:

the audience could hear his prompting

Hypernyms ("prompting" is a kind of...):

cue (an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech)

Derivation:

prompt (assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with a device prompting user with an error message in order to indicate a device problem.

(Error Message Given Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

He seemed such a boy, as he stood blushing and stammering his thanks, that a wave of pity, maternal in its prompting, welled up in her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In advanced stages of gum disease, plaque spreads below the gum line, prompting an inflammatory response in which the tissues and bone that support teeth are broken down.

(New Link Found between Alzheimer's & Gum Disease Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the latter case, you would expect that some prompting from outside would be needed to make so young a lad do such a thing.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He always arrived back lean and hungry and savage, and always departed fresh and vigorous, cleaving his way northward in response to some prompting of his being that no one could understand.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He knew it as a secret prompting, as an urge of instinct—of the same instinct that made him howl at the moon and stars of nights, and that made him fear death and the unknown.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Supermarket checkouts provide a unique location for prompting purchases as all customers have to pass through them to pay and may spend considerable time in queues; however, the majority of food at supermarket checkouts could be considered unhealthy.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Mr Elliot, raised by his marriage to great affluence, and disposed to every gratification of pleasure and vanity which could be commanded without involving himself, (for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man), and beginning to be rich, just as his friend ought to have found himself to be poor, seemed to have had no concern at all for that friend's probable finances, but, on the contrary, had been prompting and encouraging expenses which could end only in ruin; and the Smiths accordingly had been ruined.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The event - called AT2018cow and nicknamed the Cow after the coincidental final letters in its official name - is unlike any celestial outburst ever seen before, prompting multiple theories about its source.

(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)

He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broad-breasted dog, white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff of his dreams.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)