cued

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/kjuːd/

adjective

Having or relying on a cue or cues.

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

adjectivecued (comparative more cued, superlative most cued)

comparative more cued · superlative most cued

  1. Having or relying on a cue or cues.

    A comparison of the cued recall probabilities to the cue-word associative strength values revealed an especially interesting age difference.

    2013, Wolfgang Schneider, Michael Pressley, Memory Development Between Two and Twenty
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    The semi-direct measures were to involve a more cued response language laboratory DCT spoken sample and a free response face-to-tace structured interview.

    1995, Thom Hudson, James Dean Brown, Emily Detmer, Developing Prototypic Measures of Cross-cultural Pragmatics, page 3

    I vividly remember the case of a six year old boy, who although very cued otherwise, was unable to remember a word, let alone a sentence and he could not read even simple words for the first six months, which gave me the worst headache.

    2012, Rania Foka, Soft Landing Learning, page 7

    For some analyses, Lamb, Sternberg, Orbach, Esplin, Stewart, and Mitchell (2003) distinguished between general invitations (e.g., "Tell me everything that happened") and cued invitations. Cued invitations were further categorized depending on whether they referenced events, actions, segments of time, or other topics.

    2018, Michael E. Lamb, Deirdre A. Brown, Irit Hershkowitz, Tell Me What Happened: Questioning Children About Abuse, page 122

    Overall, however, the Thysdrus pavement is, again like the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore painting, much more cued to the civic calendar than our mosaic from Gaul, both trhough its use of monthly labels and, more significantly, through the high number of monthly panels given over to ritual scenes (nine) as opposed to scenes depicting human beings performing actual labour (only three: June, July and September).

    2024, Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, page 244
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of cue

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