Definition of Cue
1. Noun. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
2. Verb. Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned.
Generic synonyms: Inform
Derivative terms: Prompt, Prompter, Prompter, Prompting
3. Noun. Evidence that helps to solve a problem.
4. Noun. A stimulus that provides information about what to do.
5. Noun. Sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards.
Generic synonyms: Sports Implement
Terms within: Stock
Definition of Cue
1. n. The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
2. v. t. To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
3. n. A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.
Definition of Cue
1. to give a signal to an actor [v CUED, CUING or CUEING, CUES]
Medical Definition of Cue
1. In conditioning and learning theory, a pattern of stimuli to which an individual has learned or is learning to respond. Response-produced cues, successive stimulus cue's in a behaviour chain, each response serving as a reinforcer for the previous response and as a stimulus, or cue, for the next response. See: higher order conditioning, behaviour chain. (05 Mar 2000)
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