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cue English

Meaning cue meaning

What does cue mean?
Definitions in simple English

cue Noun

— A cue is an action that signals somebody to do something.

cue

— noun sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards — noun an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech — noun (= discriminative stimulus) a stimulus that provides information about what to do — noun (= clue) evidence that helps to solve a problem — verb (= prompt) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

Synonyms cue synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cue?

cue English » English

hint clue retort reply queue cue stick replica rejoinder rebuttal prompt pool stick pool cue motive crackdown clew chance answer tip start signal remind occasion inkling impetus excuse discriminative stimulus billiard cue wind watchword tip-off tail suggestion steer slogan response rejoin refutation reason reaction rake pretext presentiment prelude plat plait pigtail password outset origination opportunity

Topics cue topics

What do people use cue to talk about?
Language and thought Think

Remember
States Time Relative time Right time

On time

Conjugation cue conjugation

How do you conjugate cue?

cue · verb

Examples cue examples

How do I use cue in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Cue cards are used primarily on television to help the actors remember their lines.
That's my cue.

Movie subtitles

Line the cue up straight - one, two, three!
That's my exit cue.
Dorothy, that's your cue.
This is a rehearsal, not a rest cue.
There's your cue. Speak.
There's your cue.
That's the cue.
Oh, there's my cue.
There's your cue, Judson.
Dumbo! That's your cue!
Come on, Ted, that's our cue.
I'll take a cue.
Your cue, monsieur.
Pa raised his cue and.
Okay, and cue smoke.
On my cue!
There's my cue.
Don't forget your cue, Esmeralda.
Dumbo, that's your cue.
There's your cue!
When Grayson leaves the club car and goes to get his luggage that's our cue.
Fran always used to come in right on cue.
The sawed-off billiard cue made Jewel trot as straight as you please.
Pa raised his cue and. Other guy had a gun.
No, no, that's not the cue.
When she starts to feel dizzy, everything inside her goggles will fade to a bright white light -- another cue to the brain to trigger the surge.
Dumbo. That's your cue.
I don't often slug a lady, but you gave me the cue.
Now we speak upon our cue, and our voice is imperial.
Well, I suppose that's my cue to say you look too young to have boys 12 and 14.
Oh, let me see. No, no, that's not the cue.
This is my cue to take you in my arms and reassure you.
Looks like a set, ready for the lady to enter on cue.
Ah, right on cue.
You know the cue for you and Peter to come in?
Maybe you'll miss your entrance cue.

News and current affairs

The California legislature has been controlled by the Democratic Party for decades, and it takes its cue from its party's most powerful special interests: public-employee unions, environmentalists, trial lawyers, and teachers' unions.
They should take their cue from other cases in which government, scientists, and industry teamed up to produce major changes.
Taking their cue from their Palestinian neighbors, if not from al-Qaeda, alienated young Bedouins apparently decided to rebel against their treatment as third-class citizens.
MILAN - The US Federal Reserve has finally, after almost a decade of steadfast adherence to very low interest rates, hiked its federal funds rate - the rate from which all other interest rates in the economy take their cue - by 25 basis points.
Taking his cue from Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, President Barack Obama has proposed a modern form of Glass-Steagall.
As Havel finished, a light snow began to fall and, as if on cue, his listeners took their places.
The Abhisit government, congenitally beholden to the army, took its cue and effectively reneged on the Indonesia-brokered peace drive.
Unborn people should not be thought of as some special class waiting in the wings for the cue to bring them onstage.
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