Queue

Quick meaning: Queue is a noun meaning A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

Meaning

A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

More Meanings

1. (heraldry) An animal's tail.
2. (now historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.
3. (intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
4. (intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
5. (computing, transitive) To add to a queue data structure.
6. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, less common in North America) 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).
7. (computing) 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.

Example Sentences

I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue.

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, […]

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.

[…], 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.

Word Forms

• queues
• queueing
• queuing
• queued

Synonyms for queue

Depending on context, synonyms include line, lineup, line up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include line up, trail, trailer, file, row, hold.

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