Word Finder - clue

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A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.

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Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.

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An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.

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Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)

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To provide with a clue.

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The crossword compiler wasn't sure how to clue the word "should".

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To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").

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Smith, clue Jones in on what's been happening.

You have no clue, girl.

Howie doesn't have a clue so I thought I'd help him out.

Nothing in his eyes gave a clue what was on his mind.

She didn't have a clue what to think.

At one time I was sure he was but now I don't have a clue.

That they really don't have a clue?

I've been trying to figure him out for the past few days and have no clue.

The clue given lets you know where one of the hidden objects is located.

Sometimes you want to update your status, but don't have a clue what you should write!

She leafed through the book, looking for a clue.

His solemn features gave no clue.

Her cousins had no clue what he was or what she was involved with.

Talking about your feelings might not be comfortable - yet you may feel the need to clue someone into growing disquiet.

With this clue, we may rearrange the other quatrains in alphabetical sequence, each according to its initial letter.

This is definitely a clue that a person is making it up.

Often people purchase or adopt dogs with no clue about what they are getting into.

The first clue is that Tula flakes may show one or more unresolved ring cracks present on the striking platform.

As you begin shopping for a wedding ring, you may know exactly what you are looking for, or you may not have a clue about styles, prices, or other details.

If you have a friend or family member that suspects a particular person is not telling the truth most of the time, that is another clue this person may not be as trustworthy as you might have previously thought.

The biggest clue is the time-consuming preoccupation with a part(s) of the body.

These ladies seem to have it all -- beauty, money, talent and fame -- but don't have a clue how to handle it.

Though such items are not marketed for boys during every season, sometimes a regular visit to the children's section of the online Lacoste store will clue parents in as to what styles are featured for the particular season.

Edith doesn't have a clue about life.

A recent critic has sought in religion the clue to her character and the mainspring of her genius.

On crown-greens it is customary to use a small biased wooden jack to give the bowler some clue to the run of the green.

One Across goes a little further so that you can enter in more than one detail that you know, like the clue, how much of the answer you have and any pattern you see.

The online puzzles also make it easier for you to seek out the clue; for example, if you click on the number 21-and it goes across and down-then both across and down clues are highlighted.

She glanced up at his face, but it gave no clue of his mood.

A white wisp of fog was the only clue that it was actually warmer than the crisp March morning.

As to the character of the invading elements that hastened its close, and the date of their incursions, contemporary Egyptian monuments afford the best clue.

Some have discovered in the publication of this work a false clue to James's resentment against the principal of King's College.

This explanation seems to furnish a correct clue.

We have no clue to the origin of the Therapeutae, but it is plain that they were already ancient when Philo described them.

The scene where she is holding the clue to Theseus occurs on a very early vase in the British Museum.

In the inscription recording the contracts for its building it is called the Thymele; and this name may give the clue to its purpose; it was probably the idealized architectural representative of a primitive pit of sacrifice, such as may still be seen in the Asclepianum at Athens.

In the first year's work twenty-one trial trenches were dug in the hope of finding a clue to its position.

Assuming, then, that the proper names found in the Persian portion of the Behistun inscription occurred also in the Assyrian portion, retaining virtually the same sound in each, a clue to the phonetic values of a large number of the Assyrian characters was obviously at hand.

These fragments have until recently, however, given us our only clue to the earlier periods of Egyptian history.

They approach the book from the standpoint of the author and seek the clue to his writings in the events of his time.

There seems in fact nothing to prevent us from holding that while natural laws express the average tendencies of multitudes they give no clue to the movement of individuals.

Despite his open protests and subterraneous counter-mining, war was actually declared against Sweden in 1675, and his subsequent policy seemed so obscure and hazardous to those who did not possess the clue to the perhaps purposely tangled skein, that the numerous enemies whom his arrogance and superciliousness had raised up against him, resolved to destroy him.

It has in fact been found, with the very great precision of which optical experiment is capable, that all terrestrial optical phenomenareflexion, refraction, polarization linear and circular, diffraction - are entirely unaffected by the direction of the earth's motion, while the same result has recently been extended to electrostatic forces; and this is our main experimental clue.

Moses had used different documents, and that of these the two chief were distinguished by their use of different divine names - Elohim and Yahweh; by the use of this clue he gave a detailed analysis of the passages belonging to the several documents.

Minos himself is said to have died at Camicus in Sicily, whither he had gone in pursuit of Daedalus, who had given Ariadne the clue by which she guided Theseus through the labyrinth.

Since fossils afford an immediate and generally a decisive clue to the mode of deposition of rocks, whether marine, lacustrine, fluviatile, flood plain or aeolian, they lead us naturally into palaeophysiography.

Unless new discoveries provide the clue, or some reasonable explanation can otherwise be found, there seems to be no reason why we should not regard the " sayings " as containing material which ought to be taken into account in the critical study of the teaching of Jesus.

They give some clue to the amount of erosion which the system has suffered, and also afford a clue to the route by which the animals whose fossils are found in the United States entered this country., Thus, the Niagara fauna of the interior of the United States has striking resemblances to the mid-Silurian fatinasof Sweden and Great Britain.

The clue to the composition of a body, however, would seem to lie between 700 and woo.

The old Slavonic lists of forbidden books of the i 5th and 16th centuries also give us a clue to the discovery of this heretical literature and of the means the Bogomils employed to carry on their propaganda.

He made his profession and received holy orders in 1163; but we have no further clue to the date of his birth.