| 单词 | prototype |
| 释义 | prototype (once / 1986 pages) n A prototype is the original model, a sample on which to base future designs. A company designing a new toaster will first design and build a prototype and then test it out and see if it's any good. A prototype is your test case and becomes the model on which to base the design of the finished product. Often, however, the prototype can be a phase to work out the bugs. The prototype of our hands-free toothbrush was too dangerous; it needed to return to the lab for serious improvements. Like the word archetype, the word prototype can also mean the standard on which to base a definition of something. "A prototypical cheerleader is the girl to which all other cheerleaders might aspire." WORD FAMILYprototype: prototypal, prototypes, prototypic, prototypical+/prototypic: prototypically USAGE EXAMPLESIf Harwood’s prototype at the school was the Wright brothers’ first biplane, this immense scaled-up elaboration of it was a spaceship in drydock. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Seventeen years later, after working on several prototypes, his plane was ready. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) Usually, this involves a prototype, or at least a rendering. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) n a standard or typical example he is the prototype of good breeding Syn|Hypo|Hyper epitome, image, paradigm concentrate a concentrated example of something imago(psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood example, model a representative form or pattern |
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