Prototype
['prəʊtətaɪp] or ['protə'taɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a standard or typical example; 'he is the prototype of good breeding'; 'he provided America with an image of the good father'.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Original pattern, model, type, exemplar, example, archetype, protoplast.
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Definition
n. the first or original type or model from which anything is copied: an exemplar: a pattern.—adjs. Prō′totypal Prōtotyp′ical.
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Examples
- They believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The prototype of all machines designed to bind the grain before being delivered to the ground is the Marsh harvester. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You have many eyes, my Argos, resumed Justinian, after a pause, but your human prototype has none at all. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Sturgeon invents prototype of Electro Magnet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As the prototype of the dynamo, it is worthy of illustration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This was the prototype of the familiar _ticker_ of the stock broker’s office, seen in Figs. 10 and 11. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The harp with which David stirred the dead soul of Saul was the prototype of the sweet clavichord, the romantic virginal, the tinkling harpsichord, and the grand piano. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The prototype of the electric automobile, however, is best represented in the French patent to M. Grounelle, No. 7,728, Feb. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Railway Locomotion, however, forms no exception to the rule, that most modern inventions have their prototypes in the contrivances of ages past. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The application of machinery in the harvest-field had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Embryology will often reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These were the prototypes of the lighted buoys which have since become familiar, as in the channel off Sandy Hook. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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