different between prototype vs rule

English

Etymology

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos, “original; prototype”), from ?????- (pr?to-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from ?????? (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + ?????? (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from ????? (túpt?, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- +? -type.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???t?t??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?o?t??ta?p/, /-??-/
• Hyphenation: pro?to?type

Noun

prototype (plural prototypes)

1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models. [from late 16th c.]
2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
3. (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
4. (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
5. (motor racing) 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.

Synonyms

• (basis for other forms or objects): see Thesaurus:exemplar
• (motorsport): racing prototype, sports prototype, prototype racecar

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• antetype
• first article

Verb

prototype (third-person singular simple present prototypes, present participle prototyping, simple past and past participle prototyped)

1. (transitive) To create a prototype of.

Translations

References

Further reading

• prototype on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?totypus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t?.tip/

Noun

prototype m (plural prototypes)

1. prototype

Derived terms

• prototypique

Further reading

• “prototype” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototyper, definite plural prototypene)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototypar, definite plural prototypane)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?u?l/, [?u??]
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, itself an early semi-learned borrowing from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from reg? (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”); see regent.

Noun

rule (countable and uncountable, plural rules)

1. A regulation, law, guideline.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, Of The Obligations of Christians to a Holy Life

     We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
2. A regulating principle.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's well that ends well, Act I, scene I

     There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.

3. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
4. A normal condition or state of affairs.

   My rule is to rise at six o'clock.

5. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
6. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)

7. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.

   a rule for extracting the cube root

8. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
   • a. 1716, Robert South, Sermons

     As we may observe in the Works of Art, a Judicious Artist will indeed use his Eye, but he will trust only to his Rule.

9. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
10. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.

Derived terms

Related terms

• regulate
• regent
• regular

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rulen, borrowed from Old French riuler, from Latin regul?re (“to regulate, rule”), from regula (“a rule”); see regular and regulate.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
2. (slang, intransitive) To excel.

3. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
4. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
   • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation

     That's a ruled case with the school-men.

5. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).

Synonyms

• (to excel): rock (also slang)

Antonyms

• (to excel): suck (vulgar slang)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Related to revel.

Noun

rule

1. (obsolete) Revelry.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.

Further reading

• rule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ReLU, Ruel, lure

Spanish

Verb

rule

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rular.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rular.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rular.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rular.