Usually means: Signal prompting specific action or response.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cue: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cue, cue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cue, cue, cue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cue, cue: Wordnik
  7. cue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CUE, Cue, 'cue, cue: Wiktionary
  9. cue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cue: Dictionary.com
  13. cue (1), cue (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cue (audio), Cue (band), Cue (clothing), Cue (disambiguation), Cue (magazine), Cue (search engine), Cue (theatrical), Cue, .cue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cue: Rhymezone
  19. cue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cue: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cue: Free Dictionary
  23. cue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Cue, cue: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. cue: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cue: Legal dictionary
  2. Cue: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. cue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. cue: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. CUE: Acronym Finder
  3. CUE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. cue: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cue, cue, cue: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cue: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cue: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See cued as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.
noun:  (obsolete, UK, universities) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrāns (“farthing”)) in the buttery books.
noun:  An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
noun:  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.
noun:  (electronics, computing) A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
noun:  A hint or intimation.
noun:  (obsolete) Humour; temper of mind.
verb:  To give someone a cue signal.
verb:  (by extension) To spark or provoke.
noun:  (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
noun:  (obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
verb:  (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
verb:  To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (law) Acronym of clear and unmistakable error; legal standard for appeal of a decision by a Board of Veterans Appeals in the United States.

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