Noun prompting has 2 senses
  1. suggestion, prompting - persuasion formulated as a suggestion
    --1 is a kind of persuasion, suasion
    Derived form: verb prompt2
  2. prompt, prompting - a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting"
    --2 is a kind of cue
    Derived form: verb prompt3
,Verb prompt has 3 senses
  1. motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite - give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career"
    --1 is one way to cause, do, make
    Sample sentence:
    They prompt him to write the letter
  2. prompt, inspire, instigate - serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives"
    --2 is one way to induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make
    Derived form: noun prompting1
    Sample sentence:
    They prompt him to write the letter
  3. prompt, remind, cue - assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
    --3 is one way to inform
    Derived forms: noun prompt1, noun prompter1, noun prompter2, noun prompting2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
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