From en.wiktionary.org:
[Cue]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en] (used for half a farthing, from _q_ as an abbreviation for
[en]),[1][2] from [en], [la]. Compare [fr].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
The _Oxford English Dictionary_ lists obsolete forms _cu_ (15th century) and
_qu_ (pl. _ques_<!--per its own entry-->), _que_, _kue_, _kewe_ (16th
century), with the current form _cue_ dating from the 16th century.
_Webster's Third New International Dictionary_ lists _cue_ (pl. _cues_),
_kue_ (pl. _kues_) and _ku_ (pl. _kus_) as current. There is also a form
_kew_<!--'kew' has a separate entry in the OED--> in recent use, and _que_
continues to be used.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2008 | author=John Clark Pratt | title=Vietnam Voices: Perspectives on the War Years, 1941–1975 | page=315
|passage="My name is Quinn," said Quinn. " CUE-you-eye-en-en."}}
1. [en] A small portion of bread or beer ; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a _q_ (for [la] ) in the buttery books.
***** Derived terms
- [en]
***** Translations
[name of the letter Q, q]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] [English] , [ru] [Latin]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
[list:Latin script letter names/en]
*** Etymology 2
From earlier _qu_, abbreviation of [en], marked on actor's play copy where
they were to begin.[3]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
2. * [en]
3. 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 .
4. * [IV]
5. [en] A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
6. A hint or intimation .
7. * [passage=Give them [ the servants ] their CUE to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.]
8. [en] Humour; temper of mind.
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[action or event that is a signal to do something]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [bureaucratic] [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[words which serve to remind an actor]
- German: [de]
- Maori: [mi]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[hint or intimation]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Maori: [mi]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[cues]
1. To give someone a cue signal.
2. * [en]
3. [en] To spark or provoke .
4. * [en]
***** Usage notes
This is often used in the imperative.
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[ to give a cue signal]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to spark or provoke]
*** Etymology 3
Variant of [en], from [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
2. [en] The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue .
3. * [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in games such as billiards,
snooker, and pool]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Adyghe: [ady]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Aghwan: [xag]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bau Bidayuh: [sne]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Mandarin: [cmn]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Coast Bajau: [bdr]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Yámana: [yag]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yup'ik: [esu]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zhuang: [za]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[cues]
1. [en] To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
2. To form into a cue; to braid ; to twist .
***** Synonyms
- [en]
*** References
References:
[1]. [cue _noun (1)_]
[2]. [cū]
[3]. [cue _noun (2) and verb (1)_]
*** See also
[en]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Classical Nahuatl
*** Pronunciation
- [nci]
*** Interjection
[nci]
1. (mild exclamation)
** Ik
*** Noun
[cue]
1. water , liquid
2. baby girl
3. the taboo of not giving water to the elders first
**** Declension
[ikx]
**** Derived terms
[ikx]
*** References
- [33]
- [title=On whether 'Dorobo' was a fourth Kuliak language]
[ikx]
** Lutuv
*** Noun
[clt]
1. cow
** Old English
*** Pronunciation
- [cūe]
*** Noun
[ang]
1. [ang]
** Old French
*** Alternative forms
- [fro]
- [fro]
*** Etymology
From [fro], from [fro].
*** Pronunciation
- [fro]
*** Noun
[f]
1. tail (of an animal)
**** Descendants
- [roa-brg]
- [roa-cha]
- [roa-fcm]
- [frm]
- [fr]
- [en] [partly through Anglo-Norman]
- [pcd]
- [roa-poi]
- [wa]
*** References
- [cowe]