Cue and Track

Cue

Cue noun - A slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation).

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Track and cue are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Track" instead a noun "Cue".

Nearby Words: cued, cueing

Track noun - A mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it.

Usage example: a muddy track across the kitchen floor

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Cue and track are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cue" instead a noun "Track".

Nearby Words: trace, tracing, tracked, tracking, tracker

good	good cue	good track
sound	sound cue	sound track
musical	musical cue	musical track
mellow	mellow cue	mellow track
Other adjectives: long, similar, short, original, single, actual, real, main, famous, early, final, next, audio, creepy, fifth, unreleased.

Cue an alternate multi-cam style version of the show (complete with laugh track and fake banner ads) playing on "Abed TV," followed by a cartoon version inside that one, where everyone's a baby.

Source: Series / Community
When the characters call a séance to exorcise the ghost, cue the creepy theremin track, but when the Establishing Shot ends, it is Zoidberg playing it to his colleagues.

Source: Theremin
Oddly enough, the track wasn't meant for that scene - it's an edited version of "Hyperspace" that replaced the original cue.

Source: Bootstrapped Leitmotif

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Track and Cue. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cue/track

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