promptest

/P R AA1 M P T AH0 S T/
adjective
  1. 1

    Quick; acting without delay.

  2. 2

    On time; punctual.

  3. 3

    (finance) Front: closest or nearest, in futures trading.

  4. 4

    (archaic) Ready; willing to act.

noun
  1. 1

    A reminder or cue.

  2. 2

    (writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.

  3. 3

    (computing) A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.

  4. 4

    (machine learning) Textual input given to a large language model or image model in order to have it generate a desired output.

  5. 5

    (business, dated) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.

  6. 6

    (theater) A word, phrase or line supplied by a prompter to an actor who has forgotten the script.

verb
  1. 1

    (transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.

  2. 2

    (transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.

  3. 3

    (transitive) To say (something) in order to help or encourage someone to speak.

  4. 4

    (transitive, theater and television) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

  5. 5

    (transitive, computing) To request (a user) to provide input or do something on a computer.

  6. 6

    (transitive, machine learning) To provide textual input in the form of ordinary language to (an artificial intelligence or language model) to have it generate a desired output.