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cue | prime |

In obsolete terms the difference between cue and prime

is that cue is the tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue while prime is the early morning.

In lang=en terms the difference between cue and prime

is that cue is clear and Unmistakable Error; legal standard for appeal of a decision by a Board of Veterans Appeals in the United States while prime is to mark with a prime mark.

As an acronym CUE

is clear and Unmistakable Error; legal standard for appeal of a decision by a Board of Veterans Appeals in the United States.

As an adjective prime is

first in importance, degree, or rank.

cue

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

(en noun)
  • 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 citation , page= , passage=This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.
    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
    • When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
  • A hint or intimation.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.
  • (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)
    See also
    *
    Derived terms
    * on cue * sensory cue

    Verb

  • To give someone a cue signal.
    • Cue the cameraman, and action!
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , 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 citation , page= , passage=The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).}}

    Etymology 2

    Variant of queue .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * cue ball

    Verb

  • (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.
    • Synonyms
    * cue up

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    Anagrams

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    prime

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) prime, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • First in importance, degree, or rank.
    • Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
  • First in time, order, or sequence
    • Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
  • * Tennyson
    • prime forests
  • * Milton
    • She was not the prime cause, but I myself.
  • First in excellence, quality, or value.
    • This is a prime location for a bookstore.
  • (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
    • Thirteen is a prime number.
  • (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
  • (mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
  • Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
  • Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
  • * Milton
    • His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime / In manhood where youth ended.
  • (obsolete) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * greatest, most important, main, primary, principal, top * excellent, top quality * earliest, first, original * (having no nontrivial factors) indivisible * (dividing a factor of any product it divides) *
    Related terms
    * secondary * tertiary

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Christianity, historical) One of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.).
  • * Spenser
    • Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime .
  • (obsolete) The early morning.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:
    • They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Prime
  • The earliest stage of something.
  • * Hooker
    • in the very prime of the world
  • * Waller
    • Hope waits upon the flowery prime .
  • The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
  • * Eustace
    • cut off in their prime
  • * Dryden
    • the prime of youth
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 29, author=Nathan Rabin
    • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) , passage=And it’s daunting because each segment has to tell a full, complete story in something like six minutes while doing justice to revered source material and including the non-stop laughs and genius gags that characterized The Simpsons in its god-like prime .}}
  • * 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
    • Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime , didn’t you?
  • The chief or best individual or part.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Give him always of the prime .
  • (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
  • (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
  • (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz
    • , title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’' cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving ' primes .}}
  • (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
  • (backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
  • The symbol
  • (chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
  • An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
    • Synonyms
    * bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak * (chief or best individual or part) choice, prize, quality, select * prime number (when an integer)
    Derived terms
    (algebra) * cousin prime * primality * prime constellation * prime number * sexy prime * twin prime

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; perhaps related to primage.

    Verb

    (prim)
  • To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
    • You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
  • To apply a coat of primer paint to.
    • I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
  • (obsolete) To be renewed.
  • * Quarles
    • Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, / As oft repeats her darkness, primes again.
  • To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
  • (of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
  • To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
  • To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
    • to prime a witness
    The boys are primed for mischief.
    (Thackeray)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
    • to prime trees
  • (math) To mark with a prime mark.
    • Synonyms
    * (to apply a coat of primer paint to) ground, undercoat

    Derived terms

    * primer

    Related terms

    * primal * primary * primate * Primates * primy

    See also

    * prime contract * prime decomposition * prime factorization * prime number * pseudoprime

    References

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