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▪ I. queue, n.|kjuː|
Also 9 queu.
[a. F. queue, OF. coue, cue, coe:—L. cauda tail: see cue n.3]
1. Her. The tail of a beast.
queue fourché(e, having a forked or double tail.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie 41 Gold ramping Lion queue doth forked hold. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xiv. (ed. 3) 164 The lion of Gueldres is also queue fourchée. 1868Cussans Her. (1893) 86 A Lion, with its tail between its legs, is said to be Coward; when furnished with two tails, Queue fourché, or Double queued.
2. A long plait of hair worn hanging down behind, from the head or from a wig; a pig-tail.
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. (1760) II. xlix. 116 A..coat over which his own hair descended in a leathern queue. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. II. v. 100 The largeness of the doctor's wig arises from the same pride with the smallness of the beau's queue. 1802James Milit. Dict., Queue..an appendage that every British soldier is directed to wear in lieu of a club. 1843Le Fevre Life Trav. Phys. I. i. viii. 183 Old cocked-hats, and tied queues, still stalk about the town. 1888W. R. Carles Life in Corea iii. 40 These boys were all bachelors, and wore their hair in a queue down their backs. 1904L. Hearn Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation xii. 257 All classes excepting the nobility, samurai, Shinto priests, and doctors, shaved the greater part of the head, and wore queues. 1947R. Benedict Chrysanthemum & Sword iv. 77 Insignia and distinctive dress of caste were outlawed—even queues had to be cut. 1959E. Tunis Indians 117/1 The Hopi had brown skins and straight black hair. Men wore it either in a queue bound up in the back or in the long bob they inherited from the Basket-makers. 1976‘D. Fletcher’ Don't whistle ‘Macbeth’ 22 One of her habitual wigs..that..ended in a pert queue at the back.
3. A number of persons ranged in a line, awaiting their turn to proceed, as at a ticket-office; also, a line of carriages, etc. Also transf. and fig. to jump the queue: see jump v. 10 c.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. iv, That talent..of spontaneously standing in queue, distinguishes..the French People. 1862Thackeray Philip II. viii. 177 A half-mile queue of carriages was formed along the street. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. (ed. 2) 120 A long queue, like that outside a Parisian theatre. 1903E. Childers Riddle of Sands xxvi. 298, I joined a queue of three or four persons who were waiting their turn, flattened myself between them and the partition till I heard him walk out. 1943E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 64 Paulina had a mind above bread queues and unlit streets. 1951Jrnl. R. Statistical Soc. B. XIII. 152 My own interest in the subject arose from a correspondence..about queues of taxis in station yards and of customers in retail shops. 1953Times 5 Nov. 4/2 It would be for the Commons to discuss whether the claim of the judges on salaries in the queue of claims should be met before others. 1956Newsweek 9 Jan. 43/1 In Leningrad, Gershwin's music and Heyward's ‘Porgy’ were anticipated by a two-day queue for tickets priced up to $15 apiece in rubles. 1958Listener 20 Nov. 839/3 After the war the railways had to take their place in the queue after housing and housing repairs. 1966Rep. Comm. Inquiry Univ. Oxf. II. 279 In arts and social studies, most of those with a college post before a university post were tutorial fellows in the ‘queue’ for a CUF lectureship. 1968Sci. Amer. Aug. 96/1 Airplanes stacked over an airport, shoppers,..freight cars lined up for unloading at a railroad terminal and messages seeking a free path through a telegraph network all have one thing in common: they are members of a queue, or a line waiting for a service. 1969Listener 28 Aug. 267/3 Are we going to wait until Marxism and socialism have conquered the world, and then stand there last in the queue, waiting for its return to us? 1977Spare Rib May 19/4 Women in poor areas are always at the end of the queue for anything.
4. A support for the butt of a lance.
1855in Ogilvie Suppl. 1860Hewitt Ancient Armour Suppl. 647 The butt of the lance..is supported by the piece called the queue: this was of iron, and made fast to the body-armour by screws.
5. a. ‘The tail-piece of a violin or other instrument.’ b. ‘The tail of a note’ (Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 1876).
6. (Perh. a different word.) A barrel or cask capable of holding approximately one and a half hogsheads of liquid, usu. wine.
1777P. Thicknesse Year's Journey I. vi. 47 The carriage of a queue of wine from Dijon to Dunkirk..costs an hundred livres..but if sent in the bottle, the carriage will be just double. 1851C. Redding Hist. & Descr. Mod. Wines v. 91 The names applied in various wine districts of France to the casks which they use, differ without reference to the measure; in the department of the Marne, the tonneau is called the queue. 1931W. E. Mead Eng. Medieval Feast iii. 81 In 1385–6 Jean de Neele declared that his household used in one year between six and seven ‘queues’ of verjuice or between 2,346 and 2,737 litres. 1956Atlantic Monthly June 94/2 In Burgundy the barrel is called pièce and contains from 226 to 228 liters, in the Mâconnais 215 liters, in the Beaujolais 216 liters, in Alsace 114 liters. In the Champagne it's called a queue and contains 216 liters.
7. attrib. and Comb., as queue day, queue discipline, queue driving, queue form, queue number, queue system, queue theory (hence queue-theoretic adj.); queue-barging vbl. n., = queue-jumping.
1977Time Out 30 Sept.–6 Oct. 15/1 The elaborate queue system is an attempt to eliminate queue barging.
1908Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 3/4 It was queue day at the Franco-British Exhibition yesterday. At 6 o'clock..a line of people a quarter of a mile long extended on either side of the Flip Flap. 1951Jrnl. R. Statistical Soc. B. XIII. 152 The queue-discipline is the rule or moral code determining the manner in which the customers form up into a queue and the manner in which they behave while waiting. 1972Guardian 29 Aug. 2/1 The high standard of British queue discipline.
1970Sunday Tel. 20 Dec. 7/5 Yet another factor contributing to fast ‘queue’ driving in fog on motorways..is that drivers with their families as passengers tend to drive quickly for fear that a car behind might ram them.
1902Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 10/1 From the pens to the steps of the car the intending passengers will go in queue form, as now adopted with so much success at most of the theatres. 1956R. Braddon Nancy Wake i. i. 9 Each day they received queue numbers so that they could take up their correct positions next morning.
1941New Statesman 27 Dec. 523/2 The argument that the queue system is fair to everybody. 1966S. Beer Decision & Control ix. 176 This thoroughly basic situation is so important in operational research as applied to dynamic systems that a whole branch of mathematical statistics, known as queue theory, has been developed round it. Ibid. 178 Some of the earliest queue-theoretic notions were developed around the problem of the doctor's waiting room.
Add:[3.] b. Computing. A list of data items, commands, etc. stored in such a way that the most recently stored item cannot be, or by software convention is not, retrieved before all of the previously stored items have been retrieved. (Also formerly, = stack n. 1 f.)
1963Brooks & Iverson Automatic Data Processing vi. 310 If a pool is organized as a backward-chained stack, then the component next taken from the pool is the component last added to it. The queue of components in the pool therefore obeys a so-called last-in-first-out, or LIFO discipline. 1970H. A. Rodgers Dict. Data Processing Terms 86/2 Queue,..an ordered sequence of items waiting to be serviced according to their order. 1983Austral. Personal Computer Aug. 98/3 To use an array ‘Q’ to represent a queue is almost as simple. All you need is a pointer ‘S’ to the start of the queue and a pointer ‘E’ to the end of the queue.
▪ II. queue, v.|kjuː|
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To put up (the hair) in a queue. Also with personal obj.
1777W. Dalrymple Trav. Sp. & Port. lxvi, They came not out..in the morning till their hair was queued. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 385 Their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1872) II. iv. viii. 19 While they are combing and queuing him. 1885Century Mag. XXIX. 891/2 Some of them clubbed and some of them queued their hair.
2. a. intr. To move in, in a line of people.
1893Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 6/3 You queue in, hand your card to somebody, pass on.
b. trans. To cause to form a queue; to arrange (persons or things) in or as in a queue or queues.
1928Daily Express 8 Oct. 1/1 The foot and mounted police..had queued the concourse into twisting lines of people. 1973P. C. Sanderson Interactive Computing in BASIC ii. 23 Multiplexors..checking for transmission errors, and storing and queuing the messages received.
c. intr. To stand in a queue; to form up in a queue; to take one's place at the end of a queue; also fig.
1933Observer 5 Mar. 23/4 There were stuffs at the White City which made French buyers queue up. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iv. 71 They hung their hats and coats in the annexe cloakroom, and queued up for the mirror. 1945‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor i. 9 Whilst we queued-up before him to have our cap-tallies—not cap-ribbons, we now discovered— secured. 1949E. Taylor Wreath of Roses i. 11 They have to do all the wretched jobs not even a paid servant will do—queue for tomatoes, etc. 1955Times 1 Aug. 8/7 Everywhere people are queueing—even at the bureau de change and of course at the cafeteria. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xxiii. 128 Do you think that the whole of Germany was queueing up to fight Bolshevism? 1976C. Dexter Last seen Wearing xx. 155 The suspects are beginning to queue up, aren't they, Lewis? 1978D. Francis Trial Run i. 17 We are damned lucky to have been given the few weeks' option. They've got other buyers practically queueing for it.
3. trans. To follow or track (a person's steps, etc.).
1906Hardy Dynasts II. v. i. 254 Perhaps within this very house and hour, Under an innocent mask of Love or Hope, Some enemy queues my ways to coffin me.
Hence ˈqueueing ppl. a.
1949N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. ix. 91 The large crowd in Park Lane was rewarded by good long stares into the queuing motor cars. 1976M. Russell Double Deal xi. 88, I don't happen to be the queueing type. |