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"CUES" is a plural of: cue. |
Date "CUES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Signals for an action; that specific portion of a perceptual field or pattern of stimuli to which a subject has learned to respond. (references) |
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Crosswords: CUES |
| English words defined with "CUES": bagatelle, bar billiards ♦ felt ♦ perceived ♦ sensed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CUES": ball racker ♦ Cue avoidance ♦ director, broadcast, DIRECTOR, RADIO ♦ leans ♦ MANAGER, STAGE ♦ poolroom attendant, PROP ATTENDANT ♦ SOUND CONTROLLER, studio technician-video operator ♦ table attendant, TEACHER, HEARING IMPAIRED ♦ videotape engineer, VIDEOTAPE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're not plowing 50 acres with a couple of pool cues. (Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time'; writing credit: Jerry Seinfeld) | |
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![]() | Hospitals, Germany. : Das Hospital zu Cues der Mosel(?). Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | [Reference librarian cues video]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Scientists call external time cues zeitgebers (German for "time givers"). (references) | |
Learn to recognize and control environmental cues (like inviting smells) that make you want to eat when you're not hungry. (references) | ||
Recently, special tools for measuring pain in children have been developed that, when combined with cues used by parents, help physicians select the most effective treatments. (references) | ||
Political Economy | Panama | Not ideologically driven, Arnulfista Party faithful have generally taken their political cues from the top, although recently they have become more independent. (references) |
Travel | Mexico | It is best to be observant and flexible, and to take cues from the Mexicans around you. (references) |
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| "CUES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.23% of the time. "CUES" is used about 339 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.23% | 333 | 15,728 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.77% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 339 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CUES": time-cues. | |
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| Language | Translations for "CUES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | synlig stoette for sprogopfattelsen ved mundaflaesning (visual cues of speech). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | visuele kenmerken van het spreken (visual cues of speech). (various references) | ||||
German | steht in eine Schlange. (various references) | ||||
Italian | movimenti per la lettura labiale (visual cues of speech). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uescay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CUES": cuesta, cuestas. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CUES": barbecues, curlicues, curlycues, fescues, miscues, rescues. (additional references) | |
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"CUES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caues, Ccus, Cdes, cees, cese, Cesi, cesn, ceu, ceus, ceux, cias, Ciec, ciese, Cieza, cise, cles, clez, coes, cose, csu-ers, csuse, cueds, cuel, cuey, cuius, cumecs, cumes, cums, Cunes, Cunescu, cuns, cus, cusa, cuse, Cusk, cuso, cusx, keus, kue, kues, Ucet, Ucsf, zues. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CUES" (pronounced kyuw"z) |
| 4 | k y uw" z | accuse, excuse, miscues, queues, recuse, skews. |
| 3 | -y uw" z | abuse, amuse, bemuse, confuse, defuse, diffuse, disabuse, ewes, fuse, Hews, hues, infuse, misuse, muse, overuse, pews, refuse, reuse, reviews, revues, spews, suffuse, transfuse, use, views. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ecus. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cue, ecu, sec, sue, use. | |
-2 letters: es, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-s-u" | |
+1 letter: cause, clues, cruse, cubes, cukes, cures, curse, cusec, cutes, duces, ecrus, luces, puces, sauce, scute, sucre. | |
+2 letters: accuse, acutes, casque, caules, caused, causer, causes, causey, cayuse, census, cercus, cereus, cerous, ceruse, cesium, cestus, cesura, chouse, chutes, clause, coleus, coupes, course, crouse, cruces, crudes, cruets, cruise, cruses, cruset, cruxes, cubebs, cubers, cuesta, cuisse, culets, cupels, curers, curets, curies, cursed, curser, curses, curves, cusecs, cusped, cussed, cusser, cusses, cutest, cutesy, cuteys, cuties, deuces, dunces, educes, educts, eructs, escudo, excuse, fauces, fescue, fucose, heuchs, incuse, juices, lucres, miscue, muches, mucose, muscae, muscle, oscule, ouches, ounces, rectus, recurs, recuse, recuts, rescue, ruches, sacque, sauced, saucer, sauces, scouse, scutes, secund, secure, seduce, sheuch, sluice, source, spruce, sucked, sucker, suckle, sucres, truces, tusche, ulcers, uncase, uncles, usance. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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