prototypen.adj.
/ˈprəʊtətʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈproʊdəˌtaɪp/ A. n.
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a. The first or primary type of a person or thing; an original on which something is modelled or from which it is derived; an exemplar, an archetype.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun]
pattern1324
exemplara1382
examplec1425
mould1549
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last1573
prototypon1586
precedent1597
archetype1605
protoplast1612
idea1648
protype1656
progenitor1790
roughout1913
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Qu. iiii [The dictionary]..aptly may be resembled to a paterne, or prothotipe newly inuented, and deuised by some simple craftis man.
1592 A. Munday tr. L. T. A. Masque of League f. 16 v If wee would see how they haue imployed their industrie, to make themselues renowmed with the Prototype, first patterne and mould of all barbarous crueltie: let vs read [etc.]
1603 S. Daniel Panegyrike xxiii There great Exemplare Prototipe of Kings, We finde the good shal dwel within thy Court.
a1676 H. Guthry Mem. (1702) 10 The framing of the Petition having been committed to him, he had yet the Prototype by him.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 188 Images, Statues and Symbols..are only Schetically Worshipped by them, the Honour passing from them to the Prototype.
1710 M. Chudleigh Ess. Several Subj. 102 That Prototype of Joys above, Where Truth th'Ascendant still shall gain.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. iv. 54 He and..Charles Brandon were the prototypes of those illustrious heroes, with which Mademoiselle Scuderi has enriched the world of chivalry.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) iv. 200 The Apteryx..as well as its gigantic extinct prototype the Deinornis, possess only rudimentary representatives of wings.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 284 For the prototype of this tale we must look to the story of ‘Brynhildr and Sigurd’.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xviii. 441 The forms which he imprints upon them have their prototypes in his ideas.
1968 A. Storr Human Aggression vii. 66 The father or the mother..may..fail to provide an adequate prototype of masculinity and femininity upon which the child can model itself.
2006 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 16 Apr. 24 She..was taught by the prototype for her most famous character.
b. In model-making: a full-size original of which a model is a representation on a reduced scale.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > of which a smaller copy is made
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1911 Times 14 Oct. 11/6 It is pointed out in the catalogue of the exhibition that the term ‘model’ indicates a copy of some prototype on a smaller scale.
1920 Flight 8 Jan. 57/2 Anyone can make a model resembling a full-size prototype that won't fly; this is not a scientific model.
1955 E. A. Steel Model Mech. Engin. i. 1 The working model must be an engineering job. A model locomotive is built to the scale of 1½ in. to the foot or one-eighth the size of a prototype of similar design.
2000 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 27 Dec. e4 Modeling scales are determined by the proportion of the model to the full-sized prototype.
2. Electronics. A basic filter network (usually having series and shunt reactances in inverse proportion) with specified cut-off frequencies, from which other networks may be derived to obtain sharper cut-offs, constancy of characteristic impedance with frequency, etc.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [noun] > filters
filter1908
wave filter1908
prototype1923
slope circuit1966
1923 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 2 28 Mid-series and mid-shunt sections derived from prototypes other than the ‘constant-k’ wave-filter..are other possible units.
1932 W. L. Everitt Communication Engin. vii. 170 The fundamental data required for a filter are the pass band or, in the case of a low-pass filter, the cut-off frequency, and the impedance into which it is to work. From these data the prototype is computed.
2005 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 342 449 Eq. (2) is quasi-lowpass, so by nature it does not provide a framework for the generation of the transitional lowpass prototype.
3. A first full-size working version of a new vehicle, machine, etc., of which further improvements may be made; a preliminary version made in small numbers for evaluation, or from which improved or modified versions may be developed.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > prototype or experimental model
mock-up1920
prototype1932
one-off1947
1932 Flight 26 Feb. 170/1 The A.B. 20 was actually begun as a three-engined machine, like its prototype the D.B. 70.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 385 He carried on his back what looked like a prototype of a telescope.
1948 J. S. Murphy Production Engin. ii. 20 The previous model forms an ideal basis for the prototype, and experimental work can be carried out under practical conditions.
1970 P. H. Hill Sci. Engin. Design iii. 47 When entering the experimental stage of the design process..one should first deal with the mock-up, then the model, and finally the prototype.
1986 D. Carey Dreadnought iii. 33 The ship is a prototype, the only one of her kind.
1989 Smithsonian Dec. 73/2 A designer must drape a prototype of a new doll or squirt gun with a sheet before carrying it into a hallway.
2004 Wired July 148/1 (caption) The Swoosh folks blew through 100 prototypes before settling on this 11.29-ounce [sneaker] design.
B. adj.
That is, constitutes, or serves as a prototype; prototypical.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [adjective]
protoplasta1525
archetypal1642
prototypal1649
prototypical1650
protoplastica1652
pattern1657
archical1678
archetypous1683
archetypical1737
prototypic1855
prototype1880
your actual ——1966
1880 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 3) 503 The Coryphodonts are of special interest, because of their prototype characters.
1911 G. W. C. Kaye & T. H. Laby Tables Physical & Chem. Constants 3 Mass. Unit—the gramme, 1/1000 of the International Prototype Kilogramme.
1935 C. G. Burge Compl. Bk. Aviation 261/1 The first experimental machine of a new type is usually made by a special department in the factory... This first or ‘prototype’ machine is, to a large extent, hand-made.
1957 New Scientist 26 Dec. 6/2 The prototype reactor went critical at the end of 1954.
1964 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 69 2399/1 The development of a prototype lunar transponder..demonstrates the feasibility of designing future transponders for hard landings on the moon.
2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 16 Dec. iii. 3 (caption) An employee..displays a prototype model of a flexible digital clock display Thursday in Tokyo.
Phrases
in prototype: (originally) in the form of a prototype; (in later use) spec. in a developmental or test version.
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1875 W. A. Hunter in H. Spencer et al. John Stuart Mill xii. 96 It is interesting to note in prototype the germs of the great work of Mr. Mill.
1905 Elem. School Teacher 6 107 The proposed textbook itself is seen in prototype in the Longman's atlas.
1949 Times 16 May 8/2 We have several engines in prototype for tractors.
1957 Archit. Rev. 122 355/3 Other garage doors will be shown... A new packaway door..which was exhibited in prototype at the last exhibition..has been modified and improved since.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking iii. 362 Finally in March 1994, our dream car materialized in prototype.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
prototypev.
/ˈprəʊtətʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈproʊdəˌtaɪp/ 1. transitive. U.S. To take as a prototype or model; to imitate. Now rare.
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1837 N.Y. Daily Express 27 Sept. 3/1 Was it not for the vigilance of authority, and the sacred reverence Americans have for their laws, the riots of the Neapolitan Lazzaroni would soon be prototyped in our city [sc. New York].
1874 N.Y. Times 10 Oct. 3/5 If he had prototyped Mark Twain and run his tunnel the other way, he would have struck the vein the first week.
1952 Los Angeles Times 3 Apr. b1/5 Originals that ranged up to four-figure prices were often so faithfully prototyped by American manufacturers that cost became the chief differential.
2. transitive. In early use: to originate, provide with a prototype. Now usually: to create a prototype of. Also intransitive: to act as or create a prototype.
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1859 Southern Literary Messenger 29 213/1 There are..many distinct characters—productions of this and the preceding century—which remain to be successfully woven into fiction; such, for instance, as may be said to be prototyped in Howard or Florence Nightingale, [etc.].
1890 Boston Daily Globe 26 Aug. 4/2 In Miss Clay, who now takes the wheel on Sebago Lake, is prototyped what is coming. The exclusive reign of men and the subjection of women are rapidly nearing an end.
1940 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 209 36 When Paris passed an apple to Venus and so set the stage for the Trojan War, he may have been merely prototyping for a modern manufacturer of consumer goods.
1958 Times 13 Oct. 13/4 The new Aston Martin DB4, exhibited for the first time at the 1958 Motor Show, was prototyped by another Italian coach working firm.
1986 Pract. Woodworking July 336/1 I just hope that some of it will require me to prototype in my own workshop.
2004 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Apr. 71/1 Engineers are prototyping engines fired by a process called homogeneous-charge compression ignition that could provide greater fuel economy.
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