Queue Meaning and Definition


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Queue meaning

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


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