queue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
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Etymology: From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda and cola.
Inflected forms:
form: queues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: queues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: queueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: queuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: queued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: queued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on), and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
uncommon
examples: I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue.
In a report published on October 31, Transport Focus said that a number of train companies were unable to convince it about their ability to sell a full range of tickets, handle cash payments, and avoid excessive queues at ticket machines.
gloss: A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
pos: noun
gloss: A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.
pos: noun
examples: 2005, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, p. 234,
Queue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO queues are also known as stacks).
gloss: An animal's tail.
pos: noun
examples: HESSE: Az., a lion, queue fourchée, rampt., barry of ten, arg. and gu., crowned, or, and holding in his dexter paw a sword, ppr., hilt and pommel, gold.
gloss: A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: In the morning and evening, spruce Chinamen stroll about or chat at each other's doors, in blue trousers, white jacket, and a queue into which red silk is plaited till it reaches almost to their heels.
[…], there were seated astraddle the whole hundred of the baronet's musqueteers, each engaged in plaiting into a queue the hair of the man who sat in front of him.
A large number of loyal officials, rather than shave the front part of the head and wear the Manchu queue, voluntarily shaved the whole head, […]
Caparisoned for a week in purple velvet knee-length pantaloons, a red silk jacket with buckles of shiny brass, and a white goat's-hair wig which culminated behind in a saucy queue, I must have presented an exotic sight […]
gloss: To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Although there is a spacious circulating area beyond the platforms at Clacton, there is severe overcrowding on peak Saturdays; at times of pressure passengers have to queue out into the street [...]
gloss: To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To add to a queue data structure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fasten the hair into a queue.
pos: verb
examples: The sons, in short square skirted coats with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times, especially if they could procure an eel skin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
Though Monroe the man has become a vague anachronistic figure in knee breeches and with queued, powdered hair, his name is perpetuated in the Monroe Doctrine, evoked by him as a temporary response to an immediate crisis.
gloss: To matchmake.
pos: verb
examples: I'm queueing into a game.
Synonyms: queue
Related words: caudal
jump the queue
queueing theory
queue-jump
queue-jumper
queueless
quevée
cue
FIFO
LIFO
Derived words: dequeue
enqueue
nonqueued
nonqueueing
queueable
queueless
queuer
queue up
requeue
solo queue
unqueued
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