prototype

Noun

a standard or typical example
- "he is the prototype of good breeding"
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
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.

Verb

To create a prototype of.

Examples

A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.
The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.

Origin / Etymology

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “first”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.

Synonyms

epitome, image, paradigm, exemplar, prototype racecar, racing prototype, sports prototype

Scrabble Score: 16

prototype: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
prototype: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prototype: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

prototype: valid Words With Friends Word