Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cue
Cue
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a the last words of an actor's speech serving as a signal to another actor to enter or speak. b a similar signal to a singer or player etc. 2 a a stimulus to perception etc. b a signal for action. c a hint on how to behave in particular circumstances. 3 a facility for or an instance of cueing audio equipment (see sense 2 of v.). --v.tr. (cues, cued, cueing or cuing) 1 give a cue to . 2 put (a piece of audio equipment, esp. a record-player or tape recorder) in readiness to play a particular part of the recorded material. Phrases and idioms cue-bid Bridge an artificial bid to show a particular card etc. in the bidder's hand. cue in 1 insert a cue for. 2 give information to. on cue at the correct moment. take one's cue from follow the example or advice of. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn. 2. n. & v. Billiards etc. --n. a long straight tapering rod for striking the ball. --v. (cues, cued, cueing or cuing) 1 tr. strike (a ball) with a cue. 2 intr. use a cue. Phrases and idioms cue-ball the ball that is to be struck with the cue. Derivatives cueist n. Etymology: var. of QUEUE
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English cu half a farthing (spelled form of q, abbreviation for Latin quadrans quarter of an as) Date: circa 1755 the letter q, II. noun Etymology: probably from qu, abbreviation (used as a direction in actors' copies of plays) of Latin quando when Date: 1553 1. a signal (as a word, phrase, or bit of stage business) to a performer to begin a specific speech or action, something serving a comparable purpose ; hint, a feature indicating the nature of something perceived, the part one has to perform in or as if in a play, mood, humor, III. transitive verb (~d; cuing or ~ing) Date: 1922 to give a ~ to ; prompt, to insert into a continuous performance , IV. noun Etymology: French queue, literally, tail, from Old French ~, coe, queue, from Latin cauda Date: circa 1749 1. a leather-tipped tapering rod for striking the ~ ball (as in billiards and pool), a long-handled instrument with a concave head for shoving disks in shuffleboard, queue 2, V. verb (~d; cuing or ~ing) Date: circa 1784 transitive verb queue, to strike with a ~, intransitive verb queue, to use a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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