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prototype

English

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-prototype.ogg


Noun

  1. An original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations
  2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process
  3. :The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Prototype \Pro"to*type\, n. [F., from L. prototypus original,
primitive, Gr. ?, ?; ? first + ? type, model. See Proto-,
and Type]
An original or model after which anything is copied; the
pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied,
cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
[1913 Webster]

They will turn their backs on it, like their great
precursor and prototype. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet prototype
n : a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good
breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good
father" [syn: paradigm, epitome, image]
Moby Dictionary
Geistesgeschichte
, Hegelian idea , Kantian idea , Platonic form ,
Platonic idea
, aesthetic form , analogue , ancestor , antecedent ,
antetype
, antitype , archetype , art form , biotype , build , cast ,
classic
, classic example , complex idea , configuration ,
conformation
, criterion , cut , epitome , eternal object ,
eternal universal
, example , exemplar , fashion , figuration , figure ,
first
, foregoer , form , formal cause , format , formation , frame ,
fugleman
, fugler , genotype , genre , highest category ,
history of ideas
, ideal , idealism , ideate , ideatum , idee-force ,
illustration
, imitatee , impression , innate idea , inner form ,
innovation
, instance , layout , lead , make , makeup , masterpiece ,
masterwork
, matrix , metaphor , mirror , modality , mode , model , mold ,
mould
, new departure , noosphere , norm , noumenon , original ,
paradigm
, paragon , pattern , pattern of perfection , percept ,
pilot model
, precedent , precursor , predecessor , quintessence ,
referent
, regulative first principle , representative , rule , sample ,
set
, shape , significant form , simple idea , stamp , standard ,
structure
, style , subsistent form , the Absolute , the Absolute Idea ,
the Self-determined
, the realized ideal , transcendent idea ,
transcendent nonempirical concept
, transcendent universal , turn ,
type
, type species , type specimen , universal , universal concept ,
universal essence
, urtext , very model


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