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queue
waiting line of people or cars: There was a long queue at the movies.
Not to be confused with:
cue – hint; prompting: The actor was given his cue.
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queue
(kyo͞o)n.
1. A line of waiting people or vehicles.
2. Computers
a. A sequence of stored data or programs awaiting processing.
b. A data structure from which the first item that can be retrieved is the one stored earliest.
3. A long braid of hair worn hanging down the back of the neck; a pigtail.
v. queued, queu·ing, queues
v.intr.
To get in line: queue up at the box office.
v.tr.
1. To place in a sequence: queued the queries in order of relevance.
2. To braid or twist (hair) into a queue.
[French, tail, queue, from Middle French, from Old French cue, tail, from Latin cauda, cōda; see coda.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
queue
(kjuː)n
1. a line of people, vehicles, etc, waiting for something: a queue at the theatre. US and Canadian word: line
2. (Computer Science) computing a list in which entries are deleted from one end and inserted at the other
3. (Hairdressing & Grooming) a pigtail
4. jump the queue See queue-jump
vb, queues, queuing, queueing or queued
5. (often foll by: up) to form or remain in a line while waiting
6. (Computer Science) computing to arrange (a number of programs) in a predetermined order for accessing by a computer
[C16 (in the sense: tail); C18 (in the sense: pigtail): via French from Latin cauda tail]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
queue
(kyo̅o̅),
n., v. queued, queu•ing. n.
1. a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
2. a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn.
3. a sequence of items waiting in order for electronic action in a computer system.
v.i. 4. to form in a line while waiting (often fol. by up).
v.t. 5. to arrange or organize into a queue.
[1585–95; < Middle French < Latin cauda, cōda tail]
queu′er, n.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
queue
- Has the forms queued and queuing or queueing; queueing has five vowels in a row.See also related terms for row.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
Queue
a number of persons or things in a line.Examples: queue of carriages, 1862; of people, 1837; of theatre-goers, 1862.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
queue
(line)Past participle: queued
Gerund: queueing/queuing
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queue
(billiards)Past participle: queued
Gerund: queueing/queuing
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Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
queue
line
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
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| Noun | 1. |  queue - a line of people or vehicles waiting for somethingline - a formation of people or things one behind another; "the line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter" bread line, breadline - a queue of people waiting for free food checkout line - a queue of people waiting to pay for purchases chow line - a queue of people waiting for food to be served (especially at a military camp) gas line - a queue of vehicles waiting to purchase gasoline reception line - a line of people (hosts and guests of honor) who welcome the guests at a reception party ticket line - a queue of people waiting to buy tickets unemployment line - a queue of people waiting for employment |
| 2. | queue - (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted informatics, information processing, information science, IP - the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information push-down queue - a queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO) | |
| 3. | queue - a braid of hair at the back of the head | |
| Verb | 1. | queue - form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store" |
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queue
noun
1. line, row, file, train, series, chain, string, column, sequence, succession, procession, crocodile (Brit. informal), progression, cavalcade, concatenation A queue of more than sixty people snaked its way down the pavement.
2. tailback, line, traffic jam, stream a long queue of angry motorists
3. wait, waiting list The queue for places at school has never been longer.
verb
1. wait in line, line up, stand in a queue, form a queue a line of women queueing for bread
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
queue
nounThe American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
صَفصَفَّيَصُفيَقِفُ فِي الصَّفِ
frontastát frontuzásobník
køstille sig i kø
jonojonottaaletti
čekati u redured
sor
biîröîstanda í röî
列列を作る
줄줄을 짓다
eilėstovėti eilėjesustoti į eilę
stāvēt rindā
stáť v rade
stati v vrstivrsta
kököastack
เข้าคิวแถวยาว
hàngxếp hàng
queue
[kjuː] (esp Brit)A. N → cola f
to form a queue; stand in a queue → hacer cola
to jump the queue → colarse, saltarse la cola
to form a queue; stand in a queue → hacer cola
to jump the queue → colarse, saltarse la cola
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
queue
[ˈkjuː] n
vi (British) → faire la queue
to queue for sth → faire la queue pour avoir qch
We had to queue for tickets → Nous avons dû faire la queue pour avoir des billets.
to queue for sth → faire la queue pour avoir qch
We had to queue for tickets → Nous avons dû faire la queue pour avoir des billets.
vt (COMPUTING) → mettre en file d'attente
to be queueing up for sth (fig) (= eager for) → s'arracher qch
to be queueing up to do sth (fig) (= be eager to) → se battre pour faire qchqueue-jumper [ˈkjuːjdʒʌmpər] n (British) → resquilleur/euse m/f (qui passe avant son tour)queue-jumping [ˈkjuːjdʒʌmpɪŋ] n → resquille f (pour passer avant son tour)
queue up
vi (British) → faire la queueto be queueing up for sth (fig) (= eager for) → s'arracher qch
to be queueing up to do sth (fig) (= be eager to) → se battre pour faire qchqueue-jumper [ˈkjuːjdʒʌmpər] n (British) → resquilleur/euse m/f (qui passe avant son tour)queue-jumping [ˈkjuːjdʒʌmpɪŋ] n → resquille f (pour passer avant son tour)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
queue
n
(Brit: of people, cars) → Schlange f; → Warteschlange f (also Comput); to form a queue → eine Schlange bilden; to stand in a queue → Schlange stehen, anstehen; to join the queue → sich (hinten) anstellen; a queue of cars → eine Autoschlange; a long queue of people → eine lange Schlange
(old: = pigtail) → Zopf m
vi (Brit: also queue up) → Schlange stehen; (people also) → anstehen; (= form a queue) → eine Schlange bilden; (people) → sich anstellen; they were queuing outside the cinema → sie standen vor dem Kino Schlange; we queued for an hour → wir haben eine Stunde angestanden; they were queuing for the bus → sie standen an der Bushaltestelle Schlange; they were queuing for bread → sie standen nach Brot an; people are queuing up to … (fig) → die Leute schlagen sich darum, zu …
queue
:queue-jump
vi (Brit) → sich vordränge(l)n; (Mot) → aus einer Kolonne ausscheren und überholen
queue-jumper
n (Brit) jd, der sich vordräng(el)t (Mot) → Kolonnenspringer(in) m(f); the queues were booed → die, die sich vordräng(el)ten, wurden ausgebuht
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
queue
[kjuː]1. n → coda, fila
to form a queue → mettersi in fila or in coda
to stand in a queue → essere in fila or in coda, fare la fila or la coda
to jump the queue → passare davanti agli altri (in coda)
to form a queue → mettersi in fila or in coda
to stand in a queue → essere in fila or in coda, fare la fila or la coda
to jump the queue → passare davanti agli altri (in coda)
2. vi (also queue up) → fare la fila, fare la coda
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
queue
(kjuː) noun a line of people waiting for something or to do something. a queue for the bus.
verb to stand in a queue. We had to queue to get into the cinema; We had to queue for the cinema.
queue up to form, or stand in, a queue. We queued up for tickets.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
queue
→ صَفَّ, يَقِفُ فِي الصَّفِ fronta, stát frontu kø, stille sig i kø Schlange, Schlange stehen ουρά, περιμένω στην ουρά cola, hacer cola jono, jonottaa faire la queue, queue čekati u redu, red coda, mettersi in coda 列, 列を作る 줄, 줄을 짓다 in de rij staan, wachtrij kø, stå i kø kolejka, stać w kolejce fazer fila, fila очередь, стоять в очереди kö, köa เข้าคิว, แถวยาว kuyruğa girmek, kuyruk hàng, xếp hàng 排队, 队列Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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