Word: Queue
How to pronounce: kjuː
Noun
Definitions:
1. A line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.
Example sentences: "Upon the group's return a queue of vehicles had lined up to go across the river."
2. A list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.
Example sentences: "A bitmap indicates which queues are not empty, and the individual queues are FIFO lists."
3. A braid of hair worn at the back.
Example sentences: "Chinese men were forced to braid their long hair into a queue or ‘pigtail’."
Intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. Take one's place in a queue.
Example sentences: "In the war they had queued for food"
2. Arrange in a queue.
Example sentences: "Input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system"
Synonyms:
stand in line
sequential queue
queueing
line
wait list
deque
enqueue
Derivations:
queued
queuing
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Queue in Other Languages...
Spanish: Cola
German: Warteschlange
French: File
Italian: Coda
Turkish: Kuyruk
