cued

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of cue.

   The stage manager cued the lighting change just before the final scene.

   Each speaker was cued by a small light on the podium.

   Note

   One spelling carries several distinct verbs. Actors are cued by a signal. A player cued the ball by striking it with the cue. Hair was cued when twisted into a braid. More broadly it means sparked, as in a memory cued by a smell. Placed after a noun, the participle shades into the prompted-response adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having, or operating by means of, a cue or cues that prompt a particular action or response.

   Cued recall consistently outperforms free recall in memory experiments.

   The deaf student learned through a cued system that pairs hand shapes with spoken sounds.

   Note

   Researchers use this label for anything that comes with a prompt built in. Cued recall is memory helped by a hint, set against unaided free recall. Interviewers likewise separate cued invitations from general ones like "Tell me everything that happened." Unusually for a participle adjective, it grades: a more cued response, a very cued child. The prompting can be a matter of degree.

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