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PROTOTYPE
prototype, paradigm, epitome, image
(noun) a standard or typical example; “he is the prototype of good breeding”; “he provided America with an image of the good father”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
prototype (plural prototypes)
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models. [from late 16th c.]
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
(motorsport) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
Synonyms
• (basis for other forms or objects): see exemplar
• (motorsport): racing prototype, sports prototype, prototype racecar
Verb
prototype (third-person singular simple present prototypes, present participle prototyping, simple past and past participle prototyped)
(transitive) To create a prototype of.
Source: Wiktionary
Pro"to*type, n. Etym: [F., from L. prototypus original, primitive, Gr. Proto-, and Type]
Definition: 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. They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SPOT
(noun) a small contrasting part of something; “a bald spot”; “a leopard’s spots”; “a patch of clouds”; “patches of thin ice”; “a fleck of red”
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