Cue vs Tip - What's the difference?
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An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
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* 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.
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(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.
The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
* 1848 , (Anne Bronte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :
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, title= A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
(music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
(Webster 1913)
To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act V:
* Hudibras
* Thomson
To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.
To fall over.
To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
(transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
To dump (refuse).
(US) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
* 1993 , ”:
To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips
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(skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
An act of tipping up or tilting.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple ); a dump.
* 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?'', '' ,
* 2009 , Donna Kelly,
* 2009 , Rother District Council,
* 2009 , Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip'
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
(colloquial) A very untidy place.
The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
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* Jonathan Swift
To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
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A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
* 1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula :
A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
A piece of advice.
To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
(AAVE) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
(AAVE) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
In lang=en terms the difference between cue and tip
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 tip is the end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.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.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)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.}}
- 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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Etymology 2
Variant of queue .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cue ballVerb
Synonyms
* cue upExternal links
* *Anagrams
* *tip
English
Etymology 1
Circa 1225. Not recorded in Old English or Old Norse, but apparently cognate with Dutch tip, East Frisian tip, Danish tip, Swedish tipp. Perhaps cognate with Old English . Compare Albanian .Noun
(en noun)- When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
Synonyms
*(extreme end of something) extremityVerb
(tipp)- I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].
- truncheon tipped with iron head
- Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Etymology 2
Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.Verb
(tipp)- the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two [...].
- I tip my 40 to your memory.
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Derived terms
* tip off * tip one's hand * tip one's hat * tippableNoun
(en noun)page 389,
- As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip'], [http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/, The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
- When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip .
Rother District Council Website
- There are two rubbish tip s in Rother.
The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd
- Computer collectibles saved from the tip
citation, page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}
Etymology 3
Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippa.Verb
(tipp)- A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
Noun
(tips)Etymology 4
Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.Verb
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Derived terms
* tipper * tippingNoun
(en noun)- A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.
