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CLUE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evidence that helps to solve a problem

Synonyms:

clew; clue; cue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("clue" is a kind of...):

evidence (an indication that makes something evident)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clue"):

mark; sign (a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A slight indication

Synonyms:

clue; hint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("clue" is a kind of...):

indicant; indication (something that serves to indicate or suggest)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roll into a ball

Synonyms:

clew; clue

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "clue" is one way to...):

roll; twine; wind; wrap (arrange or or coil around)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

What I want to know is this: Supposing that I have here in my pocket some clue to where Flint buried his treasure, will that treasure amount to much?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There are no footsteps nor any clue to the criminals.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The health of your nails can be a clue to your overall health.

(Nail Diseases, NIH)

Your foot health can be a clue to your overall health.

(Foot Health, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

These studies may uncover clues to help prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.

(Genome-wide association study, NCI Dictionary)

“There’s not a moment to be lost. We must divide and search in different directions, unless we can get some clue as to where they have gone.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Diagnostic imaging lets doctors look inside your body for clues about a medical condition.

(Diagnostic Imaging, NIH)

A measurement of the clue cells in a biological specimen.

(Clue Cell Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

To follow up on these clues, astronomers then turned to Chandra and the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

This finding allowed astronomers to analyse the radio signal for clues about the nature of the halo gas.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)