cue

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Games A long tapered rod with a leather tip used to strike the cue ball in billiards and pool.
2. n. Games A long stick with a concave attachment at one end for shoving disks in shuffleboard.
3. n. A queue of hair.
4. n. A line of waiting people or vehicles; a queue.
5. v. Games To strike with a cue.
6. v. To braid or twist (hair) into a queue.
7. v. To form a line or queue.
8. n. A signal, such as a word or action, used to prompt another event in a performance, such as an actor's speech or entrance, a change in lighting, or a sound effect.
9. n. A reminder or prompting.
10. n. A hint or suggestion.
11. n. Music An extract from the music for another part printed, usually in smaller notes, within a performer's part as a signal to enter after a long rest.
12. n. Music A gesture by a conductor signaling the entrance of a performer or part.
13. n. Psychology A stimulus, either consciously or unconsciously perceived, that elicits or signals a type of behavior.
14. n. Archaic One's assigned role or function.
15. n. Archaic A mood; a disposition.
16. v. To give a cue to; signal or prompt.
17. v. To insert into the sequence of a performance: cued the lights for the monologue scene.
18. v. To position (an audio or video recording) in readiness for playing: cue up a record on the turntable.
19. cue in To give information or instructions to, as to a latecomer.
20. n. The letter q.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The tail; something hanging down like a tail, as the long curl of a wig or a long roll or plait of hair. In this sense also queue. See pigtail.
2. n. A number of persons ranged in a line, awaiting their turn to be served, as at a bank or a ticket-office. In this sense also queue.
3. n. Theat, words which when spoken at the end of a speech in the course of a play are the signal for an answering speech, or for the entrance of another actor, etc.
4. n. In music, a fragment of some other part printed in small notes, at the end of a long rest or silence occurring in the part of a voice or an instrument, to assist the singer or player in beginning promptly and correctly.
5. n. Hence— A hint; an intimation; a guiding suggestion.
6. n. The part which one is to play; a course of action prescribed, or made necessary by circumstances.
7. n. Humor; turn or temper of mind.
8. n. A straight tapering rod tipped with a small soft pad, used to strike the balls in billiards, bagatelle, and similar games.
9. n. A support for a lance; a lance-rest.
10. To tie into a cue or tail.
11. n. The name of the letter Q, q.
12. n. A farthing; a half-farthing.
13. n. A farthing's worth; the quantity bought with a farthing, as a small quantity of bread or beer.

Wiktionary

1. n. sports, billiards, snooker, pool A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in various games.
2. v. sports, billiards, snooker, pool The act of taking aim on the cue ball with the cue and hitting it.
3. n. An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
4. n. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.
5. n. obsolete, UK A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrans farthing) in the buttery books.
6. v. The act of giving someone a cue signal.

GNU Webster's 1913

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. n. The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.
3. n. A hint or intimation.
4. n. The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.
5. n. colloq. Humor; temper of mind.
6. n. A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
7. v. To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
8. n. obsolete A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
2. n. sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards
3. n. a stimulus that provides information about what to do
4. n. an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
5. n. evidence that helps to solve a problem