CUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cue mean? 

• CUE (noun)
  The noun CUE has 4 senses:

1. an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech

2. evidence that helps to solve a problem

3. a stimulus that provides information about what to do

4. sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards

  Familiarity information: CUE used as a noun is uncommon.

• CUE (verb)
  The verb CUE has 1 sense:

1. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

  Familiarity information: CUE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cue" is a kind of...):

actor's line; speech; words (words making up the dialogue of a play)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cue"):

prompt; prompting (a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken))

Derivation:

cue (assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Evidence that helps to solve a problem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clew; clue; cue

Hypernyms ("cue" is a kind of...):

evidence (an indication that makes something evident)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cue"):

mark; sign (a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A stimulus that provides information about what to do

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cue; discriminative stimulus

Hypernyms ("cue" is a kind of...):

input; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus (any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cue; cue stick; pool cue; pool stick

Hypernyms ("cue" is a kind of...):

sports implement (an implement used in a sport)

Meronyms (parts of "cue"):

stock (the handle end of some implements or tools)

• CUE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cue    ... he / she / it cues   
Past simple: cued   
Past participle: cued   
-ing form: cueing    / cuing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cue; prompt; remind

Hypernyms (to "cue" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

cue (an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech)

 Context examples 

Additional studies are needed to look at how changes in eCB levels and timing are affected by other cues, such as the body’s internal clock or meal schedules.

(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)

But a new study shows that urbanization shifts this seasonal cue in nuanced ways, with cities in cold climates triggering earlier spring plant growth and cities in warm climates delaying it.

(Urbanization delays spring plant growth in warm regions, National Science Foundation)

Seals may be receiving acoustic cues on where breathing holes are located from other Weddells.

(Antarctic seals may use Earth's magnetic field to navigate while hunting, NSF)

The work provides unexpected insights into how birds adjust their bodies when encountering crosswinds and navigate through unstable air flows, even at night with limited visual cues.

(Scientists discover how birds navigate crosswinds, National Science Foundation)

Many of an organism's traits are influenced by cues from the environment.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

He made a curious grimace—one of his strange and equivocal demonstrations—threw down his cue and followed me from the room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Although rodents and primates rely on different sensory cues to recognize each other, the same gene appears to be involved in processing that social information.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)

When the neuronal signal was lower on that side, the monkeys were poorer at reporting cued color changes.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

Chemokines are small chemoattractant peptides that provide directional cues for the cell trafficking and thus are vital for protective host response.

(Chemokine Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Elevated CO2 interferes with the brain functioning of fish so that they do not respond to natural cues and are attracted to unnatural cues.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)