Definition of Prompt

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Prompt

A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.

To suggest; to dictate.

To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.

Related Definitions:

Account, Action, Actor, An, As, Assist, Dictate, Different, For, Forgotten, Given, Goods, Incite, Induce, Instigate, Limit, Move, Of, Or, Orator, Payment, Produce, Prompt-Note, Purchased, Remind, See, Suggest, The, This, Time, To, Varying, With

Prompt Quotations

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.
Jurgen Habermas

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
Augustus Hare

I know where I'm going to be, I'm not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn't necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this.
Nia Long

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.
Jung Chang

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.
Adam Schiff

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.
Donald Johanson

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.
Leon Askin

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
Warren E. Burger

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Charles Simmons

Prompt Translations

prompt in Dutch is nauwgezet, nauwkeurig, accuraat
prompt in French is ponctuel
prompt in German is Anforderungszeichen {n}, Bedienerhinweis {m}
prompt in Latin is promptus
prompt in Portuguese is alerta

Quotes