Rued vs Cued - What's the difference?
rued | cued |
(rue)
(archaic, or, dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
(archaic, or, dialectal) Pity; compassion.
(obsolete) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
(obsolete) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
* (rfdate) Chapman
* (rfdate) Milton
(archaic) To feel compassion or pity.
* Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
* (rfdate) Ridley
(archaic) To feel sorrow or regret.
* (rfdate) Tennyson
Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta , especially the herb , formerly used in medicines.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), , (Ophelia):
(cue)
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.
As verbs the difference between rued and cued
is that rued is (rue) while cued is (cue).rued
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *rue
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rewe, reowe, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* rueful * ruthEtymology 2
(etyl) , from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen.Verb
- I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
- I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
- Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues .
- Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte
- which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
- Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.
Usage notes
Most frequently used in the collocation “rue the day”.Etymology 3
(wikipedia rue) From (etyl) ruwe, (etyl) rue (> modern French rue), from (etyl) . Compare (rude).Noun
(en noun)- But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew , and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
- There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue''' for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your ' rue with a difference.
Synonyms
* garden rue * herb of graceDerived terms
* goat's rue * rue anemone * Syrian rue * wall rueReferences
Anagrams
* * ----cued
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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
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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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