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单词 prototype
释义
prototypepro‧to‧type /ˈprəʊtətaɪp $ ˈproʊ-/ ●○○ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINprototype
Origin:
1600-1700 French, Greek prototypon ‘first form’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Baltimore is now cited as the prototype of successful civic entrepreneurship.
  • No damage to the prototype aircraft was reported after its first test flight.
  • Pilots have begun testing a prototype of the new aircraft.
  • The prototype of this particular computer was developed by an American in 1975.
  • Within a year, the company expects to have a prototype for military use.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Atkinson showed Sculley the prototype, and the former sugar-water salesman was blown away.
  • He also produced a prototype steam locomotive burning indigenous peat, which embodied features of the prototype Southern locomotive.
  • Its silent prototype - a 30-metre-long surface craft called Yamato-1 - is to be launched in the next month or two.
  • The two prototype pumps, installed in the eastern Paris suburbs of Colombes and Rueil-Malmaison, use liquid oxygen.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomething that is the first
something that has never been done or achieved by anyone before and is therefore surprising or exciting: · If an animated film was nominated as best picture, it would be a first.a first in: · Roger Bannister's four-minute mile was a notable first in the history of athletics.· During the 1960's, the Soviet Union achieved a series of firsts in space exploration.a first for: · Delivering a baby on the job was a first for the two police officers.
the first model of something, especially of a machine or a new invention, that is often improved in later models: · No damage to the prototype aircraft was reported after its first test flight.prototype of: · Pilots have begun testing a prototype of the new aircraft.· The prototype of this particular computer was developed by an American in 1975.prototype for: · Within a year, the company expects to have a prototype for military use.
something such as a picture or a piece of writing that is not a copy but is the one produced for the first time by the artist or writer themselves: · I wasn't sure whether the portrait was an excellent copy or the original.· This is a photograph of the manuscript. The original is in the city museum.
first-generation computers, machines etc were the first ones of their type to be produced, and are the ones that later computers, machines etc of the same type are based on: · The first-generation digital televisions cost over $2000.· There were a variety of problems common to first-generation computer software programs.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a working prototype of the new car
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· During this same period, the earliest prototypes of the Saga were also being written.
VERB
· But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies.· Moreover, this human engine became the prototype for later machines, even though they would be constructed of largely inorganic materials.
· Now they are building a prototype detector.· The engineers took the design and built expensive prototypes.· The Alpha project replaces an Intel Corp-based i860 workstation that Olivetti built in prototype quantities and originally planned for volume manufacture.· It says it's already built a prototype.
· Simple and efficient, it has been developed beyond the prototype stage with a mark one version now in operation.· Time spent communicating with managers is one of the major bottlenecks in developing new product prototypes and packaging.· The Department of Industry contributed to the cost of developing a prototype, between £600 000 and £700 000.· And you can't develop a prototype system because the users haven't got a clue what they want.· The users can compare all these possibilities and develop a prototype before making up their minds on a final design.· How a T-type m-derived section is developed from a prototype T-section is shown in figure 9.8.
· They produced prototype designs for such stores, both from Britain and abroad.· The next stage forward is for early prototypes to be produced.· He also produced a prototype steam locomotive burning indigenous peat, which embodied features of the prototype Southern locomotive.· As the MoMo concept emphasises the individuality of design for each customer, Siemens has not produced any prototype trains.
· Both companies already are showing prototypes to would-be manufacturers and customers.· Atkinson showed Sculley the prototype, and the former sugar-water salesman was blown away.
· He has filed a patent on his idea, and hopes to have a working prototype by the end of the year.· At the time of the Xerox visit, Apple had a working prototype of a machine that reeked of serious intent.
1the first form that a new design of a car, machine etc has, or a model of it used to test the design before it is producedprototype of/for a working prototype of the new car2someone or something that is one of the first and most typical examples of a group or situation
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