Due vs Cue - What's the difference?
due | cue |
Owed or owing.
Appropriate.
* Gray
Scheduled; expected.
Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
* J. D. Forbes
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.
Deserved acknowledgment.
* {{quote-news, author=Daniel Taylor, title=David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=31 January 2015
, passage=Chelsea, to give them their due , did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.}}
(in plural dues ) A membership fee.
That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
Right; just title or claim.
* Milton
An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 3
, author=Chris Bevan
, title=Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham
, work=BBC Sport
That was the cue for further pressure from the Russian side and it took further Cudicini saves to keep the score down.}} 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.
* Shakespeare
A hint or intimation.
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) Humour; temper of mind.
(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 (etyl) quadrans farthing) in the buttery books.
* Hast thou suck'd Philosophy, ate cues , drank cees?
(quadrans)
To give someone a cue signal.
* {{quote-news
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, date=May 27
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)
, work=The Onion AV Club
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in various games.
(obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
As an adjective due
is owed or owing.As an adverb due
is (used with compass directions) directly; exactly.As a noun due
is deserved acknowledgment.As an acronym cue is
(legal) clear]] and unmistakable [[error|error; legal standard for appeal of a decision by a board of veterans appeals in the united states.due
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With dirges due , in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
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- This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.
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Synonyms
* (owed or owing) needed, owing, to be made, required * (appropriate) * expected, forecast * (having reached the scheduled or natural time) expectedDerived terms
* driving without due care and attention * due date * due to * in due time * taxes due * with all due respectAdverb
(en adverb)- The river runs due north for about a mile.
Noun
(en noun)- Give him his due — he is a good actor.
citation
- He will give the devil his due .
- Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.
- The key of this infernal pit by due I keep.
Derived terms
* give someone his due * give the devil his dueStatistics
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English
(wikipedia cue)Etymology 1
From the letter Q, abbreviation of (etyl) quando (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.Noun
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That was the cue for further pressure from the Russian side and it took further Cudicini saves to keep the score down.}}
- When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
- Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.
See also
*Derived terms
* on cue * sensory cueVerb
- Cue the cameraman, and action!
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