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Cue   /kju/   Listen
Cue

noun
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.  Synonyms: clew, clue.
3.
A stimulus that provides information about what to do.  Synonym: discriminative stimulus.
4.
Sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards.  Synonyms: cue stick, pool cue, pool stick.
verb
(past & past part. cued; pres. part. cueing)
1.
Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned.  Synonyms: prompt, remind.



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"Cue" Quotes from Famous Books



... egg rolling, as it were, spontaneously over the ground? And not only one egg; for, as they continued to gaze a while, the whole lot, as if taking their cue from it, commenced imitating the movement, some with a gentle, others a more violent motion! Murtagh sprang back affrighted, and stood with his red hair on end, gazing at the odd and inexplicable phenomenon. ...
— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid
... These words are the cue for those who are to represent the Violets to prepare to enter from different points on the right, and to make a soft, stirring sound before they come into view, ...
— Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs • Alice C. Fletcher
... the danger to respectable persons of meddling with stolen property gave Mr. Bamber his cue. ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman
... you walking with me in the Park last week and has been to my studio a half-dozen times begging me to take you to see him. Please, Mary dear, do this for my sake. I owe Gordon a debt I can never pay. He gave me the cue to the work that set me on my feet. He was big and generous and helpful when I needed a friend. He asked nothing in return but the privilege of helping me again if I ever needed it. You can do me an ...
— The Foolish Virgin • Thomas Dixon
... wondered in my soul how many broken hearts were covered by those lace and velvet garments, and those smiling, superficial faces. The thought absorbed me so that I forgot everything and the prompter thought I'd forgotten my part entirely and gave me my cue." ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder


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