I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cue ball
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
visual
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Body language is probably the most important visual cue .
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We are responding to the visual cues .
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Nor are women so fixated by visual cues , so obsessed with physical rivalry.
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It is communicated both by auditory and visual cues .
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Nevertheless, rats can be trained to carry out visual discrimination tasks and will use visual cues to guide their natural behaviour.
■ NOUN
pool
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At least one knife was used and a broken pool cue .
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At first it was thought the men may have been stabbed with a broken pool cue .
■ VERB
give
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When given such a cue , the reply had to emerge.
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It was hard to tell whether Greene was giving cues to the crowd or taking them from it.
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When you do, we will keep the tape running and give you a cue line.
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The elephants are given a cue to start and then they improvise.
miss
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As soon as anyone misses their cue they return to number one and all those below the number move up one.
provide
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However, they are probably too infrequent to provide hearers with cues to ethnicity.
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Along the way she provides cues and signals to help the child with the next step.
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The system involves classifying lip-patterns which look alike and providing cues to disambiguate them.
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Information gleaned from those discussions may help the next day by providing cues on how to approach her opponents.
take
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Eventually, taking my cue as previously coached, I found myself shaking hands with Prince Charles.
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Maybe the academy membership took its cues from the small panel that decided the nominees in the top four categories.
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McGee, who had clearly been primed, did not move and Julia took her cue from him.
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They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from matter.
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Well, he took my cue .
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It is time for us to take our cue from Buku khan and tackle the linguistic landscape of the Tarim Basin.
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The next man, taking his cue , did the same, and the next.
use
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They use intonational cues to signal the start of a new paragraph.
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This suggests that axons within such a bundle recognise one another using molecular cues and as such its relevance may be quite general.
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Nevertheless, rats can be trained to carry out visual discrimination tasks and will use visual cues to guide their natural behaviour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some people can cope with hearing loss by using other cues to meaning.
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Use the leash to give the dog cues about what you want him to do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Black, taking his cue from the darkness, stands up from his spot and extends his hand to Blue.
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He was irritated when a cue to speak interrupted his imagining.
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The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
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The audience will take cues from you.
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The idea is to see if the terms on which bargainers settle can be influenced by such cues.
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The woman takes her cue from the guy eventually.
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There are cues that signify congestion.
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Thus the cues of subordinates, peers, supervisors, family and friends become important triggers to arousal.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners.
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I didn't have a solid grasp of myself - I depended on other people and surroundings to cue me.
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It takes a trained and sensitive therapist to cue in to your personal needs.
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It was still 1-1 after extra time, so cue the dreaded penalty shootout.
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The child's behaviour may then cue the adult as to how successful was the initial interpretation.
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This will cue the waiter to refill it.
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When the sun goes down, the eyes cue the gland to start pumping melatonin.