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prototype as in:  prototype of the new machine

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    That restaurant served as a prototype for the entire chain.
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    We've had positive response to a prototype of the new game.
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    At the power level available to current experimental prototypes, the most that a full assault on Judgment Day could do is to make the people inside feel dizzy and nauseous.  (source)
    prototypes = test versions
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    He has constructed a prototype of their transceiver and tests fuses and valves and handsets and plugs—but even in those late hours, it is as if the sky has dimmed and the school has become a darker, ever more diabolical place.  (source)
    prototype = test version
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    Other Compounds in other countries were following similar lines of reasoning, said Crake, they were developing their own prototypes, so the population in the bubble-dome was ultra-secret.  (source)
    prototypes = first versions
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    The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was presented, according to the ideas of that time, as the enemy of God, the approach of whose vengeance is felt throughout the drama, growing in menace from minute to minute.†  (source)
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    Night Wolves was, technically, the Granadica Design and Prototyping Center.†  (source)
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    "This one's a prototype of the Boeing X-33," the pilot continued, "but there are dozens of others-the National Aero Space Plane, the Russians have Scramjet, the Brits have HOTOL."  (source)
    prototype = test version
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    All around him early prototypes of Redd's numerous inventions were on display in spotlit alcoves:  (source)
    prototypes = the first examples of various products that serve as models from which future machines are developed or copied
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    Mike was a prototypic "big brother," a tough and fearless warrior who led by example, not by intimidation.†  (source)
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    Its thick neck and high shoulders that slope to the hindquarters look as if they've come from a discarded prototype for the giraffe, and its shaggy, coarse coat seems to have been patched together from the leftovers of creation.  (source)
    prototype = test version
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    "They're just prototypes," Fernando says, "so there's no need to scrutinize them."†  (source)
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    He secretly connected his prototype to city gas lines.  (source)
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prototype as in:  prototypical response

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    He is a prototypical comic book hero.
    prototypical = typical
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    "I was, like, the prototypical white Hoosier kid," he said.  (source)
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    She was a prototypical suburban mom, minus the SUV.  (source)
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    Half a century later, in his path-breaking book The Mask of Sanity, Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as "a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly....So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal man that no one who examines him in a clinical setting can point out in scientific or objective terms why, or how, he is not real."  (source)
    prototypical = typical
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    He was the antithesis of the prototypical cadet leader.†  (source)
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    I began my second letter to Piedmont in prototypical Conrack style—self-righteous, angry, undiplomatic, unapologetic, and flaming.†  (source)
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