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
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.
• (basis for other forms or objects): see exemplar
• (motorsport): racing prototype, sports prototype, prototype racecar
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
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
