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cue
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kju?/, [kj???]
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: queue, Q
Etymology 1
From Middle English cu (“half a farthing”), spelled form of q, abbreviation for Latin quadr?ns (“quarter of an as”).
Noun
cue (plural cues)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Q.
Translations
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Etymology 2
From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quand? (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.
Noun
cue (plural cues)
- An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
- 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.
- A hint or intimation.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- (obsolete) Humour; temper of mind.
- (obsolete, Britain, universities) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrans farthing) in the buttery books.
Derived terms
- cue card
- cue-to-cue
- on cue
- right on cue
- sensory cue
Translations
Verb
cue (third-person singular simple present cues, present participle cueing or cuing, simple past and past participle cued)
- To give someone a cue signal.
- Cue the cameraman, and action!
- (by extension) To spark or provoke.
Usage notes
This is often used in the imperative.
Etymology 3
Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”).
Noun
cue (plural cues)
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
- (obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
Derived terms
- cue ball
Translations
Verb
cue (third-person singular simple present cues, present participle cueing or cuing, simple past and past participle cued)
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
- To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
Synonyms
- cue up
References
Further reading
- cue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- ECU, Ecu., UCE, ecu, écu
Classical Nahuatl
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??/
Interjection
cue
- (mild exclamation)
Ik
Noun
cue
- water; liquid
Further reading
- Terrill Schrock, On whether 'Dorobo' was a fourth Kuliak language, in Studies in African Linguistics, volume 44, number 1 (2015) (gives pronunciation: [t??e?])
- Terrill Schrock, The Ik Language (2017)
Old French
Alternative forms
- coe
- queue
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin c?da, from Latin cauda.
Noun
cue f (oblique plural cues, nominative singular cue, nominative plural cues)
- tail (of an animal)
Descendants
- Middle French: queu, cueue
- French: queue
- English: queue, cue (partly through Anglo-Norman)
References
- cowe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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suggestion
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman suggestioun, Old French suggestion (modern French suggestion), from Latin suggesti?, from suggero (“suggest”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??d???st??n/, [s??d????t??n]
- (General American) IPA(key): /s???d???st??n/, /s??d???st??n/
- Hyphenation: sug?ges?tion
Noun
suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural suggestions)
- (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
- I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
- (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
- He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
- The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
- (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence
Synonyms
- (something suggested): hint, incitement, proposal
- See also Thesaurus:advice
Derived terms
Related terms
- suggest
- suggestive
Translations
Finnish
Noun
suggestion
- Genitive singular form of suggestio.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy?.??s.tj??/
Noun
suggestion f (plural suggestions)
- suggestion; proposal
- suggestion (psychology, etc.)
Derived terms
- boîte à suggestions
Related terms
- suggérer
Further reading
- “suggestion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.
Noun
suggestion f (oblique plural suggestions, nominative singular suggestion, nominative plural suggestions)
- suggestion; proposal
References
- suggestion on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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