| 单词 | cue |
| 释义 | cue cue1 /kyooh/, n. , v. , cued, cuing. n. 1. anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action: An off-stage door slam was his cue to enter. 2. anything that excites to action; stimulus. 3. a hint; intimation; guiding suggestion. 4. the part a person is to play; a prescribed or necessary course of action. 5. a sensory signal used to identify experiences, facilitate memory, or organize responses. 6. Archaic. frame of mind; mood. 7. miss a cue, a. to fail to respond to a cue. b. Informal. to miss the point: You could tell by his expression that he had missed a cue. v.t. 8. to provide with a cue or indication; give a cue to; prompt: Will you cue me on my lines? 9. to insert, or direct to come in, in a specific place in a musical or dramatic performance (usually fol. by in or into): to cue in a lighting effect. 10. to search for and reach (a specific track on a recording) (sometimes fol. by up). 11. cue (someone) in, Informal. to inform; give instructions, information, news, etc., to: Cue him in on the plans for the dance. [1545-55; spelled name of the letter q as an abbreviation (found in acting scripts) of L quando when] Syn. 1. signal. 3. sign, clue, key, tip, inkling. cue2 /kyooh/, n. , v. , cued, cuing. n. 1. a long, tapering rod, tipped with a soft leather pad, used to strike the ball in billiards, pool, etc. 2. a long, usually wooden stick with a concave head, used to propel the disks in shuffleboard. 3. a queue of hair. 4. a queue or file, as of persons awaiting their turn. v.t. 5. to tie into a queue. 6. to strike with a cue. [1725-35; < F queue tail, OF coue < L coda, earlier cauda tail; cf. COWARD, QUEUE] cue3 /kyooh/, n. the letter Q, q. [1400-50; late ME cu; conventional adaptation in spelling of the letter name] |
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