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单词 cue
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cue
(kj )
Word forms: cues , cueing , cued
1. countable noun [oft with poss]
In the theatre or in a musical performance, a performer's cue is something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something.
The actors not performing sit at the side of the stage in full view, waiting for their cues.
I had never known him miss a cue.
2. verb
If one performer cues another, they say or do something which is a signal for the second performer to begin speaking, playing, or doing something.
He read the scene, with Seaton cueing him. [VERB noun]
3. countable noun [NOUN to-infinitive]
If you say that something that happens is a cue for an action, you mean that people start doing that action when it happens.
That was the cue for several months of intense bargaining. [+ for]
That was Nicholas's cue to ask for another chocolate chip cookie.
4. countable noun
A cue is a long, thin wooden stick that is used to hit the ball in games such as snooker, billiards, and pool.
Their youngest brother was nine when he picked up a cue for the first time.
5. on cue/as if on cue phrase
If you say that something happened on cue or as if on cue, you mean that it happened just when it was expected to happen, or just at the right time.
Kevin arrived right on cue to care for Harry.
'It's almost eight o'clock.' As if on cue the bell in the chapel began to toll.
6. take one's cue from phrase
If you take your cue from someone or something, you do something similar in a particular situation.
Taking his cue from his companion, he apologized for his earlier display of temper. [+ from]
Collocations:
chemical cue
In many species, induction of metamorphosis occurs as a sensory response to a chemical cue indicative of the juvenile and/or adult habitat.
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In bivalves, the chemical cue may be produced by bacteria specific to the type of biofilm growing in the adult habitat.
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The developed larvae will receive a chemical cue from adults to settle down into a bed of sand dollars and begin to undergo metamorphosis to their adult sand dollar form.
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The team suspects that besides offering a physical barrier to the bites, the graphene also blocks the chemical cues coming off of human skin.
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The auditory cues were found to have a more powerful effect than chemical cues that a fish was in the vicinity.
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emotional cue
Working together, they will be able to detect emotional cues as we compose emails, which could then be attached to our messages.
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So when collapse happens, we understand it only in terms of emotional cues: 'greedy bankers', 'careless spenders'.
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She's a bit like those musicians who provided emotional cues for silent movies.
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Sensors in smartphones, smart watches and other devices would be used to detect emotional cues as we composed emails, which could be attached to our messages, he said.
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When we look at each other's faces less, she reasons, we inevitably stop seeing, and therefore reacting to, emotional cues.
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environmental cues
Chemical responses to environmental cues, it now appears, can switch genes on or off.
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Body clocks respond to environmental cues, such as sleeping when it's dark, so let's hope he will settle quickly.
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These clocks are wound by various environmental cues known as zeitgebers (time givers), such as light and temperature.
Smithsonian Mag
Environmental cues — particularly odours from cooking and household cleaning products — and stress and anxiety often make the problem worse.
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Nobody knows what the environmental cues are that trip the epigenetic switches.
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facial cues
New research suggests that subtle facial cues alert us to infections mere hours after they take hold.
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Computer algorithms then assess their suitability for a role based on subtle facial cues and voice intonation.
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Email exchanges also exclude facial cues, making people more socially isolated.
Times, Sunday Times
While studying nonverbal communication, researchers noted that some subjects were able to read nonverbal facial cues before reinforcement occurred.
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When looking in a mirror, the patient can only use facial cues to recognize one self.
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hunger cues
They said that patients should be advised to act on all hunger cues and eat only and always when hungry.
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In a sample of 189 nurses, those who consistently overrode hunger cues were more likely to suffer from a lifetime of being overweight and yo-yo dieting.
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She said people are 'surprisingly bad at noticing their hunger cues'.
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lighting cues
A flurry of less-than-dazzling lighting cues only serves to illuminate his flying wires as he wobbles slowly into an empty, grubby swimming pool.
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These include a movable building set, lighting cues, simulator movements, projections and wind effects.
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The work included analysis of fog structures, human perception, instrument design, and lighting cues amongst many others.
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They also allow for lighting cues to contain larger channel counts due to the same time savings gained from not physically moving individual channel faders.
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An example of show control would be linking a video segment with a number of lighting cues, or having a sound track trigger animatronic movements -- or all of these combined.
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musical cues
Leading by example, he strums and babbles economically through eight wittily sketched scenarios of everyday life that range freely for their musical cues.
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I asked how he could still pick up his musical cues.
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Chairs again, and books, for a virtuoso dialogue of verbal rhythms - word associations built on instructions for dance moves or musical cues.
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On this preview night, the cleverly bungled pre-recorded musical cues added to the atmosphere of controlled mayhem.
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Sure, the musical cues were immaculate.
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nonverbal cues
Like mobile-phone talkers in the quiet carriage, they entirely miss the range of signals and nonverbal cues being dropped like anvils all around them.
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Classmates ignored my nonverbal cues and kept inviting me to concerts, museums, and films.
Christianity Today
Watch your body language to make sure that your nonverbal cues aren't implying something different from what you're saying.
Christianity Today
Even then, we so often misunderstand his nonverbal cues.
Christianity Today
People's own emotions, however, were more influenced by others' nonverbal cues as opposed to what they were really feeling.
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pool cue
The pool cue hit my back.
Globe and Mail
At the rescue site, tough and highly skilled drill riggers worked for three days without sleep, trying to drive a hole as straight as a pool cue through bedrock.
Globe and Mail
He was holding a pool cue.
Globe and Mail
Two prisoners escaped from the minimum security section of the prison in 2008 after digging their way out under a security fence using a pool cue and a dust pan.
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However, special shortened but weight- and balance-adjusted cues are available, in lengths such as or, and even smaller, rather than the typical pool cue or carom cue.
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sensory cues
People miss out on the sensory cues that announce mealtime—the clattering of pots and the aromas of food on the stove.
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He has since been proven correct: all sensory cues do end up there, arriving as electrical impulses in nerve fibers.
The Scientist
This suggests that place cells respond to complex stimuli rather than simple individual sensory cues.
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Because different species rely on different senses, sensory ecologists seek to understand which environmental and sensory cues are more important in determining the behavioral patterns of certain species.
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They also state that concerns have been raised that caffeine can mask some of the sensory cues individuals might normally rely on to determine their level of intoxication.
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social cue
It's a powerful social cue to the brain that signals you belong, you're connected, and there are others you can trust.
Christianity Today
By following the ball's suggested arc with his eyes, the magician provides a social cue.
Times, Sunday Times
In turn this makes the face a less reliable social cue during social interactions.
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Therefore, the social cue that they believe they saw happening in the video was nonexistent.
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Ordinary people pick up social cues very quickly at a young age.
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styling cues
Styling cues on the 2007 model include a chrome slotted grille and trapezoidal headlights.
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The car featured a number of off-road styling cues including larger bumpers and sills.
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Taking styling cues from the 1981 design, the new car had full width tail lights, complete with a bird emblem in the center.
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A seventies design that has since been revised to reflect the new more rounded lines of the brands styling cues.
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Styling cues were also taken from muscle cars, and features included different sized wheels, with the smaller in the front, and square-profiled tires.
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subtle cues
People who are conservative could be less sensitive to the subtle cues in other people's body language than liberals, according to a study.
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Great sportspeople are able to 'read' the subtle cues of their opponents, extracting information about their intentions through early-warning signals (postural orientation, tiny alterations in body language, etc).
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When participants in a conversation come from different cultural backgrounds they may not recognize these subtle cues in one another's speech, leading to misunderstanding.
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Even subtle cues indicating kinship may unconsciously increase altruistic behavior.
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Analysis focuses not only on linguistic forms such as words and sentences but also on subtle cues such as prosody and register that signal contextual presupposition.
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verbal cues
A dozen trained canines had their brains scanned as owners delivered various verbal cues.
The Sun
To indicate that we haven't finished yet but are just gathering our thoughts, we therefore conventionally rely on verbal cues - those umms and erms and so on.
Times, Sunday Times
Owners of canines find it very important to have a canine that can learn visual and verbal cues that they show.
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Next they formulated visual or auditory images when prompted with verbal cues such as a game of tennis or a telephone ringing.
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For example visual priming works best with visual cues and verbal priming works best with verbal cues.
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visual cue
There's no visual cue that people need to be patient and generous.
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Notifications tell you at which point in the dialogue, or after which visual cue, you should leave your seat, and summarise the non-events you will miss.
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The more severe the symptoms are, the more dramatic a visual cue must be in order to be effective.
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As trials continue, the sound and the visual cue will randomly alternate between being located at the same azimuth, or different azimuths.
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Players may exhibit physical tells, in which a subtle, often repeated, visual cue inadvertently reveals their state of mind during a game.
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Translations:
Chinese: 提示, 提示为下一位演员
Japanese: キュー, キューを出す
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