2022-01-31
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – C - cue & queue
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง cue & queue = ”KYOO”
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:
cue & queue
Cue is more widely used thanqueue in all meanings,
but careful speakers and writers continue to distinguish between them.
Aqueue refers to a braid of hair and to a file, or line:
“She wore her hair in a queue which hung down to her waist.”
“Let’s queue up for the next bus.”
Acue refers in the theater to an indication of following actions or speech and in general use to any kind of hint or suggestion;
in games,cue means the tipped rod used in billiards and pool:
“I don’t have a single cue as to his intentions.”
“When he missed the shot, the player broke his cue in anger.”
Dictionary.com:
HISTORICAL USAGE OF QUEUE
The English noun queue comes from Middle French
queu, quewe, queuue, cueue (with many other variant spellings)
and Old French cue, coe “tail,” from Latin cauda (also cōda ) “tail
(of an animal or scorpion),” also “penis.”
The first recorded meaning of queue in English, from Old French,
dates from the late 15th century and
meant “a band of parchment attached to a document and bearing a seal.”
The historical sense
“a braid of hair worn hanging down from the head or a wig,”
dates from the 18th century.
The very modern computing sense of queue
“a sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like,
waiting for action” dates from the 1960s.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Is it que, queue, or q?
One of our persistent—and more puzzling
—lookups is for the word que,
which is entered in our dictionary (capitalized)
as an abbreviation for Quebec.
Qué is also a Spanish word that means “what.”
That is not, however, the word that many people are looking for
when they look up que in our dictionary.
Que is homophonous with a number of other words,
most of which have wildly different spellings and meanings.
One of the words that people are looking for when they look up que is queue, a word that means “line”
(as in, “We waited in the ticket queue.”)
Sometimes people are looking for the homonym cue,
or “a signal to start or do something”
(“The lights just went out—that’s my cue to start the movie.”).
Very occasionally, people look up que for coup,
a word that refers to a violent and sudden overthrow
or takeover of a government (“reports on the latest coup attempt”).
And if you’re looking for the phonetic spelling of the letter q, try again: that’s cue.
