English noun: cue |
1. | cue (communication) an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech |
|
| Broader (hypernym) | actor's line, speech, words |
|
| Narrower (hyponym) | prompt, prompting |
|
2. | cue (communication) evidence that helps to solve a problem |
|
| Synonyms | clew, clue |
|
| Broader (hypernym) | evidence |
|
| Narrower (hyponym) | mark, sign |
|
3. | cue (cognition) a stimulus that provides information about what to do |
|
| Synonyms | discriminative stimulus |
|
| Broader (hypernym) | input, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus |
|
4. | cue (artifact) sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards |
|
| Synonyms | cue stick, pool cue, pool stick |
|
| Broader (hypernym) | sports implement |
|
| Part holonym | stock |
|