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▪ I. cue, n.1|kjuː|
Forms: 5 cu, 5–7 q, 6 qu, que, kue, kewe, 6– cue.
1. The name of the letter Q, q.v.
1755Johnson, Q..The name of the letter is cue, from queue, French, tail; its form being that of an O with a tail. [An entirely erroneous guess.]
†2.
a. The sum of half a farthing, formerly denoted in College accounts by the letter q, originally for quadrans. Obs. (Cf. cee.)
c1440Promp. Parv. 106 Cu, halfe a farthynge, or q, calcus..minutum. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) B ij, All these..are scantly worth a kue. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 36 Not worthe a cue. 1542Recorde Gr. Artes (1575) 29 A kewe the viij part of a penny. 1600Holland Livy lv. Epit. 1241 A small peece of silver of three halfepence farthing cue. 1617Minsheu Ductor, Cue, halfe a farthing, so called because they set down in the Battling or Butterie Bookes in Oxford and Cambridge the letter q. for halfe a farthing, and in Oxford when they make that Cue or q. a farthing, they say, Cap my q. and make it a farthing thus {aonq}.
†b. transf. A term formerly current in the Universities for a certain small quantity of bread; also extended by some writers to beer: cf. cee.
1603Patient Grissil (Shaks. Soc.) 9 Eight to a neck of mutton—is not that your commons?—and a cue of bread. 16051st Pt. Jeronimo in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 367 Hast thou worn Gowns in the university..ate cues, drunk cees? 1640H. Glapthorne Wit in Const. i, You're not now Amongst your cues at Cambridge. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 26 (N.) He never drank above size q of Helicon. 1831P. Wingate in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) 219 We were allowed at dinner a cue of beer, which was a half-pint.
†c. fig. A little, ‘a little bit’.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. x. 141 Cardenio is rais'd a Cue above the Don.
▪ II. cue, n.2|kjuː|
Forms: 6 kew, ku, quew, 6–7 q, quue, 6–8 que, 7 Q, qu, kue, 6– cue.
[Origin uncertain.
It has been taken as = F. queue tail (see next), on the ground that it is the tail or ending of the preceding speech; but no such use of queue has ever obtained in French (where the cue is called réplique), and no literal sense of queue or cue leading up to this appears in 16th c. English. On the other hand, in 16th and early 17th c. it is found written Q, q, q., or qu, and it was explained by 17th c. writers as a contraction for some Latin word (sc. qualis, quando), said to have been used to mark in actors' copies of plays, the points at which they were to begin. But no evidence confirming this has been found.
1625Minsheu Ductor, s. lit. Q, A qu, a terme vsed among Stage-plaiers, à Lat. Qualis, i. at what manner of word the Actors are to beginne to speake one after another hath done his speech. 1633C. Butler Eng. Gram., Q, a note of entrance for actors, because it is the first letter of quando, when, showing when to enter and speak.]
I.
1. a. Theatr. The concluding word or words of a speech in a play, serving as a signal or direction to another actor to enter, or begin his speech.
1553in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xi. 31 Amen must be answered to the thanksgevyng not as to a mans q in a playe. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 186 Curst be thy stones for thus deceiuing mee..Deceiuing me is Thisbies cue; she is to enter, and I am to spy her through the vvall. 1736Fielding Pasquin ii. i, That I might use him like a dog! Promp... Where is this servant? Why don't you mind your cue? Serv. O, ay, dog's my cue. 1882Daily Tel. 7 Dec., The prompter was away..and the ‘cues’ were not properly given. 1884G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 121 ‘Cue for the soldier's entrance’, shouted the prompter.
b. Mus. A direction to enable a singer or player to come in at the right time after a long rest: see quot.
1880Grove Dict. Mus. I. 423 A few notes of some other part immediately preceding the entrance of his own are..printed small in the stave as a guide; and this is called a cue.
c. Cinemat., Broadcasting. A signal for action to begin or end (see quots.). Also attrib. Also spec., a mark on a film serving as a signal or direction to a film editor or projectionist.
1932Techn. Descr. Broadcasting House (B.B.C.) 76/1 In certain announcing rooms..a cue light is installed, so that the announcer may..give a cue to, say, the conductor of an orchestra to commence. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 214/2 Cue (Cinematography), an indication, visual or aural, for action or speech on the part of someone, during continuity. 1948Brit. Stand. 1492 6 The motor cue shall consist of circular opaque marks with transparent outlines... The change-over cue shall consist of 4 frames. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio vi. 109 All BBC studios are equipped with green cue lights. Ibid. 110 For talks, etc. cue lights are also used to help regulate the timing and pace of the programmes.
d. A facility for playing a video or audio recording during a fast forward wind, so that it can be stopped when a desired point in it is reached; cue and review, this facility combined with a similar one for fast rewind.
1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a18/5 (Advt.), Features automatic tape shut-off, cue and review keys, [etc.]. 1982Daily Tel. 30 July 3/6 (Advt.), Looks terrific—sounds even better. Cue/review. Mute switch. 1984Listener 3 May 20/2 (Advt.), The 615 VHS video has the facility to record up to 4 hours on an E-240 cassette, picture search functions like cue, review, freeze frame, and 9 function wired remote control. 1985Electronics Week 7 Jan. 9 The unit features instant replay or cue on the black and white picture tube of its electronic viewfinder or on a standard color monitor TV. 1985Which? Feb. 74/2 Fast picture search (sometimes called shuttle search or cue and review) is provided on all home video recorders: it plays the tape..at from four to 12 times normal speed.
2. fig.
a. A sign or intimation when to speak or act; a hint or guiding suggestion how to act, etc.
1565J. Calfhill Answ. to Martiall 94 b, For he shut in one before, of purpose, to open it when hys quew came. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. iv. 27 Had you not come vpon your Q my Lord, William Lord Hastings had pronounc'd your part. 1602― Ham. ii. ii. 587 What would he doe, Had he the Motiue and the Cue for passion That I haue? 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. (1630) 51 Herevpon my Companion taking his Q. It is not (quoth he) any lacke of..hanging in the aire. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 197 My merchant gave me my cue, and by his direction I answered. a1734North Exam. ii. iv. §119 (1740) 293 Who was..to take his Ques from her, and to move and do as she inclined him. 1863G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators II. 268 His comrades kept behind him, taking their cue from his conduct.
†b. A hint of what is coming, a premonition.
1647H. Vaughan Son-dayes iii, A taste of Heav'n on earth; the pledge and Cue Of a full feast.
c. A stimulus or signal to perception, articulation, or other physiological response.
1931Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 342 The sensory cue of the image on the retina. 1940Ibid. Jan. 228 Tactile and labyrinthine ‘cues’ may come to be interpreted by the blind with the characteristic immediacy which we associate with visual apprehension. 1956Language XXXII. 274 (title) Acoustic cues for nasal consonants. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 73 Since listeners identify members of minimal pairs with the aid of contextual cues, stress placement has no functional role. 1966Listener 6 Oct. 503/1 This business of olfactory cues, as they are called, has been recognized in mammals too..but..overlooked in man.
3. The part assigned one to play at a particular juncture; the proper or politic course to take.
1581T. Howell Deuises (1879) 194 Take heede therfore, and kepe each Cue so right, That Heauen for hyre vnto thy lotte may light. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 39 Mistris Page, remember you your Qu. Mist. Pag. I warrant thee, if I do not act it, hisse me. 1605― Lear i. ii. 147 Pat: he comes..my Cue is villanous Melancholly. 1605Tryall Chev. iii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 308 It is thy q. to enter. a1650May Satir. Puppy (1657) 23 It was their Qu' now to fly..which they did with exquisite dissimulation. 1741Richardson Pamela III. 312 You're the Countess of C―'s youngest Daughter Jenny—That's your Cue. 1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. x. 175 His cue would naturally be..to magnify the difficulties of the enterprise.
4. Humour, disposition, mood, frame of mind (proper to any action).
1565Golding Ovid's Met. ix. (1593) 228 [He] did not watch Convenient time, in merrie kew at leasure him to catch. 1567Drant Horace Epist. ii. ii. H v, Ech personage in his righte Quue take heede that thou dost frame. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 21 Men of greater size are seldome i' the right cue. 1752J. Newton Lett. to Wife 31 Oct., I should lay the paper aside till I were in a better cue. 1756W. Toldervy Two Orphans I. 69 The 'squire being out of the cue, as he called it, for eating. 1851Hawthorne Ho. Sev. Gables xix. (1883) 348 Nobody was in the cue to dance.
5. Comb., as cue-call, cue-fellow, cue list, cue sheet. cue-bid n. and v. trans. and intr., cue-bidder, -bidding Contract Bridge (see quots.); cue card (orig. U.S.) = idiot card s.v. idiot n. 4.
1932G. G. J. Walshe Contract Bridge i. 29 When a suit has been agreed upon between the two partners bids in other suits show features... These bids (Cue bids) are especially valuable. 1963Times 5 June 16/3 He..refused either to cue-bid or to raise either of my suits.
1932G. G. J. Walshe Contract Bridge iii. 106 The following hands..will illustrate the methods of the Cue-bidder. Ibid., The original bidder should not..initiate Cue-bidding without control of the first lead of three suits. 1933E. Culbertson Contract Bridge Blue Bk. xviii. 269 The ‘cue-bidding’ methods which concentrate mainly on showing Aces.
1881Rossetti Ballads & Sonnets, Sooth-say vii, In the life-drama's stern cue-call, A friend's a part well-prized by all.
1954D. C. Phillips et al. Introduction to Radio & Television vii. 178 Lettering, photographic copy, or illustrative material..could consist of ‘credits’ for the director, cast, and crew, or still photos, cue cards, [etc.]. 1961[see idiot board s.v. idiot n. 4]. 1977Time Out 17 June 16/4 On top of this there are more camera scripts to type up and cue cards all of which add to the bulk of work performed by the PA.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 19 He could..relate (as other his Cue-fellows have done) how hee came to that facility in his part, who were his prompters [etc.]. 1927Melody Maker Sept. 937/3 The present campaign for a better cue list for the provincial or smaller orchestra. Ibid. 937/1 The bogey of the Cue Sheet or Suggestion List. 1959W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinemat. 88/1 Cue sheet, the complete schedule of cues for a film production. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio vi. 106 A constant check is kept on timing, using either a script or for unscripted programmes, a timed cue-sheet.
▪ III. cue, n.3|kjuː|
[Variant of queue, a. mod.F. queue, in OF. cue, coe, keue, = Pr. coa, coda, It. coda:—L. cauda tail]
1. A long roll or plait of hair worn hanging down behind like a tail, from the head or from a wig; a pigtail. Also spelt queue.
1731Cibber Epil. to G. Lillo's Lond. Merchant, The Cit, the Wit, the Rake cocked up in Cue. 1772–84Cook Voy. IV. iii. vi. (R.), Those cues or locks..look like a parcel of small strings hanging down from the crown of their heads. 1843Lever J. Hinton xxxvi. (1878) 251 The scrupulous exactitude of his powdered cue.
2. The long straight tapering rod of wood tipped with leather, with which the balls are struck in billiards and similar games.[According to Littré the queue was originally the small end of the tapering stick then called the billard.] 1749in B. Martin Dict. 1779J. Dew Billiards in Hoyle's Games Impr. 247 If the Leader follows his Ball with either Mace or Cue past the middle Hole, it is no Lead. 1844Alb. Smith Mr. Ledbury xxxviii. (1886) 118 He knocked down a large cue that was lying against the billiard-table. 1856Crawley Billiards (1859) 7 The best cues are made plain, of well-seasoned ash.
3. The tail (of an animal). humorous use.
1867Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. 80 Your [frog's] cues are an anachronism.
4. ‘A support for a lance, a lance-rest’ (Imperial Dict.).
5. Comb. (from sense 2), as cue-ball, cue-tip; cue-butt (see quot.); cue-rack, a rack for holding billiard cues.
1873Bennett & Cavendish Billiards 26 Cue-tips are made of two pieces of leather cemented together. Ibid. 27 The cue-butt or quarter-butt is larger in diameter than the cue, about 5 feet long, and leathered at the bottom. 1881H. W. Collender Mod. Billiards i. 36 The cue-ball is that with which the play is made. 1935Encycl. Sports 82/2 Cue ball, ball belonging to the person who is at the table.
▪ IV. cue, n.4|kjuː|
Colloq. abbrev. of cucumber.
1935Daily Tel. 7 June 21/3 ‘Toms’ and ‘Cues’. Home-grown tomatoes and cucumbers are in splendid condition. 1963Ibid. 17 Dec. 10/2 (heading) ‘Tommies and Cues’.
▪ V. cue, v.1|kjuː|
[f. cue n.3]
trans. To form or twist (the hair) into a cue; to furnish with a cue. Hence cued ppl. a.1
1772–84Cook Voy. IV. iii. vi. (R.), They separate it [their hair] into small locks which they woold or cue round with the rind of a slender plant. 1775–83Thacher Mil. Jrnl. (1823) 230 A genteel cued wig. 1824Scott St. Ronan's iii, Winterblossom..wore his hair cued, and dressed with powder.
▪ VI. cue, v.2|kjuː|
[f. cue n.2]
trans. a. To provide or furnish with a cue. Also const. in, and fig. So cued ppl. a.2
1928Melody Maker Feb. 197/2 The 1st alto had melody cued-in. 1937Printers' Ink Monthly Apr. 50/3 Cue someone, to give a signal indicating ‘proceed with the pre-arranged routine’. 1957R. Maney Fanfare vii. 95 Stimulated by the martinis, and cued by questions, I volunteered a lot of suggestions. 1959Times 19 Nov. 16/5 He knew the music in the sense that he was able to dispense with the scores and cue his players from memory. 1961Listener 20 Apr. 683/2 Not being cued by the State Department's press officers that this was indeed mighty stuff. 1962Ibid. 4 Oct. 537/3 This scaffolding..served its purpose which was to introduce Esterhazy and to cue in his apologia pro vita sua. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 227 Velarized or emphatic stops are cued by frequency lowering of second formant. 1964T. Rattigan Heart to Heart in Coll. Plays III. 426 Super captions. Cue announcer. Ibid., Take out caption. Cue David. 1966S. Jackman Davidson Affair ii. 17, I..saw the floor-manager's hand drop to cue me in, and turned to face the camera. 1970Radio Times 30 Apr. 10/2, I want to explain in the programme that we've just heard from our Washington correspondent, and then cue you in live.
b. spec. To make an indicatory mark on (a film negative or a recording) (see cue n.2 1 c).
1938G. H. Sewell Amat. Film-making iv. 47 The amateur is advised to..‘cue’ the negative. 1958N.Z. Listener 26 Sept. 9/1 Discs are easier to cue and edit if the programme is complicated and needed in a hurry.
c. trans. and intr. To position (the pick-up arm, stylus, etc., of a record-player) over or at the desired track of the record. Also transf. of pre-recorded tapes, etc.
1958J. Tall Techniques of Magnetic Recording xii. 231 There are two ways to prepare a program of this nature. One way is to ‘cue’ the master tape, either visually or aurally, so that it is stopped at the proper point, after the cue. 1960, etc. [implied at cueing vbl. n.]. 1975G. J. King Audio Handbk. viii. 198 A record place cueing indicator is included and it is also possible to cue in accurately to any place on the record by servocontrol. 1976Gramophone Feb. 1406/2 Only then can I confidently line up the stylus over a given band on the record and cue it exactly. 1984N.Y. Times 12 July c22/3 Radio-engineers cueing music in broadcast studios. |