(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."
Indict
Definition:
(v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
(v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
(v. t.) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(2) It is concluded that there is no pharmacokinetic indiction for withholding OCs from women with early active schistosomiasis who are concurrently receiving antischistosmal drugs.
(3) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(4) Others believe that, despite the fact that some of his closest lieutenants are among those indicted by US authorities, he planned to use the time until the new election to ease a favoured successor into the post.
(5) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(6) Judge Morrison intervened: "As you know, Dr Karadzic … it isn't the Serbian people who are indicted in this case, nor the Serbian state.
(7) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
(8) It was quoted in the grand jury indictment, and later a larger portion was included in one of the prosecution’s filings in the case: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thermal image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, shows the boat in which Jahar hid.
(9) Some on the right believe it's a damning indictment of the welfare state.
(10) It has been clear for months now that Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty was abusing and manipulating the grand jury process to orchestrate a vote against indictment,” the statement said.
(11) If an indictment were returned, Clay would have to go for trial.
(12) Though things may return to normal, the now official election of Kenyatta, indicted by the international criminal court for committing crimes against humanity five years ago, complicates international diplomatic relationships with Kenya .
(13) But the star – who is better known for divisive wins at awards ceremonies and singing about the merits of charity shop bargains – was one of many hip-hop and urban artists who made their voices heard after the grand jury’s decision to not indict Wilson.
(14) Prosecutors investigating the case have indicted her friend, Choi Soon-sil , and are seeking to question the president about her role in the scandal.
(15) Isn't it a serious indictment of your government's values that while lower and middle income families are being hit, at the same time you are giving an average £107,000 tax cut to people earning over £1m a year?"
(16) Initial postulates indicted an immunological mechanism.
(17) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
(18) "It is an indictment of the failure of his attempts to boost business investment spending that, rather than encouraging a rebalancing of the economy, he now has to resort to policies that will increase its imbalances."
(19) The apogee, for me, is his book Terra Nullius , a 2005 Australia travelogue that indicts Britons and white Australians for terrible abuses such as the transportation of Aborigine women to the chillingly named Isle of the Dead where they were given inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment, and the extensive forced separation of "half-blood" children from their families to prison-like camps.
(20) The argument can be made that this meant it was more likely that there would be no indictment,” said Todd Swanstrom, a professor in public policy at the University of Missouri-St Louis.