cue

Etymology 1
Form of Latin. First attested as for half a farthing, as an abbreviation for. Compare French.

Alternative forms
The Oxford English Dictionary lists obsolete forms cu (15th century) and qu (pl. ques), 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 in recent use, and que continues to be used.

Noun

 * 1)  A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for ) in the buttery books.
 * 1)  A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for ) in the buttery books.
 * 1)  A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for ) in the buttery books.

Translations

 * Arabic: كُو
 * Bengali: কিউ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: quu
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, guu
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Greek: κιου
 * Hawaiian: kopa
 * Hindi: क्यू
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kú
 * Ido: qe
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: kū
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: kiu
 * Marathi: क्यू
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: кью ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kyu
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: kû
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Welsh: ciw

Etymology 2
From earlier qu, abbreviation of, marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.

Noun

 * 1) An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3)  A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
 * 4) A hint or intimation.
 * 5)  Humour; temper of mind.
 * 1) A hint or intimation.
 * 2)  Humour; temper of mind.
 * 1)  Humour; temper of mind.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: stikkorð, markorð
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Maori: tohuuru
 * Persian: علامت دادن
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: podnet, znamenie, signál
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: balap
 * Welsh: ciw


 * German:
 * Maori: tohuuru
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Welsh: ciw


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Maori: tīwhiri
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1) To give someone a cue signal.
 * Cue the cameraman, and action!
 * 1)  To spark or provoke.
 * These techniques can cue an open dialogue with your interviewer.
 * These techniques can cue an open dialogue with your interviewer.

Usage notes
This is often used in the imperative.

Derived terms

 * cue in
 * cue off
 * cue up

Etymology 3
Variant of, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
 * 2)  The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Adyghe:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan:
 * Aklanon:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Bau Bidayuh:
 * Belarusian: кій
 * Bulgarian: щека
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: puŝbastono
 * Faroese: biljardstokkur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: queue de billard
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: kjuði
 * Ido:, biliardo-bastono
 * Irish: ciú
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: так
 * Mandarin: 球杆
 * Manx: maidjey billiard
 * Maori: kiu
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: tágo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, biljardkö
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: ciw
 * West Coast Bajau:
 * Wolof:
 * Yámana:
 * Yiddish:
 * Yup'ik:
 * Zazaki: çue
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu:

Verb

 * 1)  To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
 * 2) To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

Interjection

 * 1) (mild exclamation)

Noun

 * 1) water; liquid

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) tail (of an animal)