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  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": [
      "kju"
    ],
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      },
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      "Form of Latin q\u016b. First attested as Middle English cu for half a farthing, as an abbreviation for Latin quadr\u0101ns (\u201cquarter of an as\u201d).. Compare French qu.",
      "From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quand\u014d (\u201cwhen\u201d), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.",
      "Cues for cuesports\nVariant of queue, from French queue (\u201ctail\u201d)."
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          {
            "mean": "kue, kew, que\nThe 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."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Noun",
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          {
            "mean": "The name of the Latin-script letter Q."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(obsolete, UK, universities) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadr\u0101ns (\u201cfarthing\u201d)) in the buttery books."
          }
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        "name": "Noun_2",
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            "mean": "An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something."
          },
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            "mean": "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."
          },
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            "mean": "(electronics, computing) A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording."
          },
          {
            "mean": "A hint or intimation."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(obsolete) Humour; temper of mind."
          }
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      },
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        "name": "Verb",
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          {
            "mean": "To give someone a cue signal.\nCue the cameraman, and action!"
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            "mean": "(by extension) To spark or provoke."
          }
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        "name": "Noun_3",
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          {
            "mean": "(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games."
          },
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            "mean": "(obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Verb_2",
        "meanlist": [
          {
            "mean": "(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it."
          },
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            "mean": "To form into a cue; to braid; to twist."
          }
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          {
            "mean": "^  \u201ccue noun (1), .\u201d, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster, 1996\u2013present \u201c the letter q /  Middle English cu half a farthing (spelled form of q, abbreviation for Latin quadrans quarter of an as)\u201d.\n\n ^  \u201cc\u016b, n.\u201d, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan, 2007 \u201cThe letter q, abbrev. for quadrans.\u201d.\n\n ^  \u201ccue noun (2) and verb (1), .\u201d, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster, 1996\u2013present \u201cprobably from qu, abbreviation (used as a direction in actors' copies of plays) of Latin quando when\u201d."
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          {
            "mean": "etymologically unrelated termsbanana cuecamote cue"
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            "mean": "\u201ccue\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G.  C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC.\n\u201ccue\u201d, inThe Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1911, \u2192OCLC."
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