prototype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊtətaɪp/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtəˌtaɪp/
ipa: [ˈpɹoʊɾəˌtaɪp]
ipa: [ˈpɹoʊɾəˌtʌɪp]
ipa: /ˈpɹəʉtətɑep/
ipa: [ˈpɹəʉɾətɑep]
ipa: [ˈpɹɐʉɾətɑep]
ipa: /ˈpɹɐʉtətaɪp/
ipa: [ˈpɹɐʉɾətaɪp]
Forms: form: prototypes
form: prototyping
form: prototyped
form: prototyped
Etymology: From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “first”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: In short, he has purposely perverted the whole case from beginning to end, and distorted it in such a manner, as not to be prototyped except by his own mind; […]
ref: 1807 July, Alex. Denmark, “[Mr. Denmark, in Answer to Mr. Chalmers.] To the Editors of the Medical and Physical Journal.”, in T. Bradley, R[obert] Batty, editors, The Medical and Physical Journal, volume XVIII, number 101, London: Printed for R[ichard] Phillips, by W[illiam] Thorne, […], →OCLC, page 66:
text: [Y]ou may form acquaintance with the Wye before it sees the light, by penetrating that interesting cavern, Poole's Hole, as I have several times before. It is a wondrous place, and worthy of a far more dignified name; a sort of crypt in Nature's vast cathedral; an assemblage of all grotesque, fantastic and beautiful mineral formations, in a fretted vault not made by man, yet mimicking or prototyping all his art.
ref: 1857, Spencer T[imothy] Hall, “The Wye and Dove”, in The Peak and the Plain: Scenes in Woodland, Field, and Mountain, 2nd edition, London: Houlston and Wright, […], →OCLC, page 345:
text: [W]hatsoe'er the poet sings, / Of prototyped in nature or in man, / Moves deeply, though it touch not wrath of kings / Or frantic battle-van.
ref: 1859, Frederic W[illiam] H[enry] Myers, “Burns Centenary Poems. I.”, in George Anderson, John Finlay, editors, The Burns Centenary Poems: A Collection of Fifty of the Best out of Many Hundreds Written on Occasion of the Centenary Celebration, […], Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son; Edinburgh: John Menzies; London: Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co.; Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, →OCLC, stanza V, page 3:
text: The following themes will arise repeatedly in this book: / • the use of symbolic computation to prototype the behaviour of models.
ref: 1995, Eugene Fiume, “Mathematical Computation”, in An Introduction to Scientific, Symbolic, and Graphical Computation, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters, →ISBN, section 0.2 (Themes of This Book), page 4:
text: The BBC wanted a computer to go with their television series and started to look for candidate systems. […] Several companies competed for the contract, and the Proton project was an ideal candidate. The only problem was the Proton didn't actually exist. It was only in the design stage; it wasn't prototyped. Acorn had little time, only 4 days, and spent those 4 days working night and day, prototyping the design, and getting the Proton ready to show to the BBC. […] The BBC Micro was born.
ref: 2014, James A. Langbridge, “The History of ARM”, in Professional Embedded ARM Development, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wrox, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part I (ARM Systems and Development), pages 4–5:
glosses: To create a prototype of.
glosses: To imitate or emulate.