1. prototype - Noun
2. prototype - Verb
An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Sigmund Freud
I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype. Steve Wozniak
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that. Carlton Cuse
Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design. Shawn Fanning
The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT. Walt Disney
It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction. Alan Tower Waterman