Translations

9 languages
Українська
hint or intimation:
straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in games such as billiards, snooker, and pool:
Русский
By meaning 4
name of the letter Q, q:
action or event that is a signal to do something:
words which serve to remind an actor:
straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in games such as billiards, snooker, and pool:
Deutsch
action or event that is a signal to do something:
words which serve to remind an actor:
straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in games such as billiards, snooker, and pool:

Examples

24 sentences

  1. The men are smiling on cue.

    Чоловіки посміхалися в потрібний момент. — ChickenKiev

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  2. I'll take my cue from you.

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  3. Tom has difficulty reading social cues.

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Meaning

9 senses

  1. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.

    кьюkʹju, куku

  2. An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.

    Wink, Signal, Hinweis

    намёкnamjók, сигна́лsignál

  3. A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.

    Queue, Billardstock

    кийkij

    кийkyj

More meanings 6

  1. The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.

    Stichwort

    подсказкаpodskazka

  2. A hint or intimation.

    подсказкаpodskazka

    нáтякnátjak

  3. A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.

  4. (UK, obsolete)A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrāns (“farthing”)) in the buttery books.

  5. (obsolete)Humour; temper of mind.

  6. (obsolete)The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

More definitions
  • an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
  • evidence that helps to solve a problem
  • a stimulus that provides information about what to do
  • sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards

Origin

From Middle English cu (used for half a farthing, from q as an abbreviation for Latin quad

From Middle English cu (used for half a farthing, from q as an abbreviation for Latin quadrāns (“quarter of an as”)), from Latin cū, kū. Compare French ku.

From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quandō (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.

Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: cues

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • evidence that helps to solve a problem:clueclew
  • a stimulus that provides information about what to do:discriminative stimulus
  • sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards:cue stickpool cuepool stick

Word family

20 related words
Derivedautocuecuebidcue cardcue gamecueistcuelesscuemancue markcuercue sheetcuestickcue-to-cuecurlicueon cuesocial cuecue sportmiscuepostcueprecueretrocue

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cuddlecuddlycudgelcuffB2cuisineculinary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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