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▸ 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.
Similar:
clew,
clue,
remind,
prompt,
discriminative stimulus,
Cue stick,
pool cue,
pool stick,
Q-word,
Q-code,
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visual,
important,
verbal,
retrieval,
single,
environmental,
only,
particular,
external,
next,
specific
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