What's the difference between clue and cue?

Clue


Definition:

  • (n.) A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
  • (n.) That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.
  • (n.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
  • (n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.
  • (n.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
  • (n.) A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
  • (2) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
  • (3) Peripheral basophilia was present in four cases, providing a clinical clue that the Philadelphia chromosome might be present.
  • (4) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (5) Two patients are described in whom Streptococcus bovis bacteremia was the only clue to the presence of a colonic neoplasm.
  • (6) Their only clues were two statements involving contrasting mental terms, with each statement referring to one of the possible hiding places.
  • (7) To obtain a clue to its possible origin, the degree of restriction enzyme site homology between adenovirus genome type 7h and those representative of the three described genomic clusters (GC) for serotype 7 was studied by analysis of pairwise comigrating DNA restriction fragments (PCRF) after digestion with BamHI, BglI, BglII, BstEII, EcoRI, HindIII, HpaI, SalI, SmaI, XbaI, and XhoI.
  • (8) The filings do not contain any clues about the size of the settlement that the DoJ was hoping to reach with Barclays, although the bank is thought to have been prepared to pay up to $2bn (£1.6bn).
  • (9) Differing careers in the two sexes may provide a clue as to the reason underlying this finding.
  • (10) Hunt gave a few clues as to areas on which he may focus, but appeared to indicate that one may be regulation of programming content on the internet.
  • (11) This phenomenon may be an important clue to the differential diagnosis of the etiology of neonatal ascites.
  • (12) Calcification on abdominal radiographs, especially serpiginous, seen in the region of the neck of gallbladder, appears to be the clue to the diagnosis of gallbladder schistosomiasis in people from endemic areas.
  • (13) Unusual infections associated with colorectal tumors may, in some instances, be the sole clue to presence of malignancy.
  • (14) It was concluded that the situational clues led to high degree of expectatory coordination with others, and also brought about a bias in choices.
  • (15) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
  • (16) Hyperthyroidism can be difficult to recognize clinically, and isolated elevation of serum alkaline phosphatase levels may be a useful clue.
  • (17) Abaaoud’s history may provide context or clues to the purpose of his UK trip.
  • (18) Subacute course of renal failure after angiography and eosinophilia seem to be the important diagnostic clues for this disorder.
  • (19) Although antibodies to these proteins were only found in 5-10% of more than 50 sera screened by radioimmunoassay or Western blotting, the selective production of antibodies to epitopes on three (out of a total of more than 80) ribosomal proteins may provide further clues to autoantibody induction of SLE.
  • (20) Tonic heart rate, averaged over 30-second periods, was lower when clues were present on the tape than during control periods when clues were not present.

Cue


Definition:

  • (n.) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
  • (n.) The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.
  • (n.) A hint or intimation.
  • (n.) The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.
  • (n.) Humor; temper of mind.
  • (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
  • (v. t.) To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
  • (n.) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
  • (2) There was no significant effect of the factor "cues."
  • (3) Almost nothing is known about nature and timing of the embryonic cues which induce or initiate spicule formation by these cells.
  • (4) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
  • (5) Sleep was defined behaviorally as failure to respond to the faint auditory RT cue.
  • (6) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
  • (7) However, these models differ in their predictions about the effect of trial order on cue interaction.
  • (8) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (9) Through cues or precues, attention was directed to one location of a multistimulus visual display and, while attention was so engaged, the identity of a stimulus located at a different position in the display was changed.
  • (10) For both the single- and multiple-band signals, performance was best when the signal band(s) had a different envelope from the common envelope of the cue bands, and performance was worst when either the cue bands all had different envelopes, or the signal and cue bands all shared the same envelope.
  • (11) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.
  • (12) Comparison of implant-user performance with the temporal-only data reported here can help determine whether the speech information available to the implant user consists of entirely temporal cues, or is augmented by spectral cues.
  • (13) The students received cues-pause-point training on an initial question set followed by generalization assessments on a different set in another setting.
  • (14) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
  • (15) In 1943 Konrad Lorenz postulated that certain infantile cues served as releasers for caretaking behaviour in human adults.
  • (16) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
  • (17) On three of the tests, the independent variable was a spectral cue and on three others a temporal cue was manipulated.
  • (18) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
  • (19) To investigate this issue, data from two previous papers were reanalysed to investigate the complete time course of precuing target location with either: (1) a peripheral cue that may draw attention reflexively, or (2) a central, symbolic cue that may require attention to be directed voluntarily.
  • (20) Roberts described the TGF-betas as providing the cells with cues to their temporal positions in a developmental program, that is, telling the cells "where they were, where they are, and where they're going."

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