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.
queue
C0794500 (kyo͞o)n.1. A line of waiting people or vehicles.2. Computersa. 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, queuesv.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.]
queue
(kjuː) n1. a line of people, vehicles, etc, waiting for something: a queue at the theatre. US and Canadian word: line2. (Computer Science) computing a list in which entries are deleted from one end and inserted at the other3. (Hairdressing & Grooming) a pigtail4. jump the queue See queue-jumpvb, queues, queuing, queueingorqueued5. (often foll by: up) to form or remain in a line while waiting6. (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]
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.
queue
- Has the forms queued and queuing or queueing; queueing has five vowels in a row.See also related terms for row.
Queue
a number of persons or things in a line.Examples: queue of carriages, 1862; of people, 1837; of theatre-goers, 1862.
queue
(line) Past participle: queued Gerund: queueing/queuing
Imperative
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Present
I queue
you queue
he/she/it queues
we queue
you queue
they queue
Preterite
I queued
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we queued
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Present Continuous
I am queueing/queuing
you are queueing/queuing
he/she/it is queueing/queuing
we are queueing/queuing
you are queueing/queuing
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Present Perfect
I have queued
you have queued
he/she/it has queued
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Past Continuous
I was queueing/queuing
you were queueing/queuing
he/she/it was queueing/queuing
we were queueing/queuing
you were queueing/queuing
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Past Perfect
I had queued
you had queued
he/she/it had queued
we had queued
you had queued
they had queued
Future
I will queue
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Future Perfect
I will have queued
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Future Continuous
I will be queueing/queuing
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Present Perfect Continuous
I have been queueing/queuing
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he/she/it has been queueing/queuing
we have been queueing/queuing
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Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been queueing/queuing
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Past Perfect Continuous
I had been queueing/queuing
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he/she/it had been queueing/queuing
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you had been queueing/queuing
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Conditional
I would queue
you would queue
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Past Conditional
I would have queued
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queue
(billiards) Past participle: queued Gerund: queueing/queuing
Imperative
queue
queue
Present
I queue
you queue
he/she/it queues
we queue
you queue
they queue
Preterite
I queued
you queued
he/she/it queued
we queued
you queued
they queued
Present Continuous
I am queueing/queuing
you are queueing/queuing
he/she/it is queueing/queuing
we are queueing/queuing
you are queueing/queuing
they are queueing/queuing
Present Perfect
I have queued
you have queued
he/she/it has queued
we have queued
you have queued
they have queued
Past Continuous
I was queueing/queuing
you were queueing/queuing
he/she/it was queueing/queuing
we were queueing/queuing
you were queueing/queuing
they were queueing/queuing
Past Perfect
I had queued
you had queued
he/she/it had queued
we had queued
you had queued
they had queued
Future
I will queue
you will queue
he/she/it will queue
we will queue
you will queue
they will queue
Future Perfect
I will have queued
you will have queued
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Future Continuous
I will be queueing/queuing
you will be queueing/queuing
he/she/it will be queueing/queuing
we will be queueing/queuing
you will be queueing/queuing
they will be queueing/queuing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been queueing/queuing
you have been queueing/queuing
he/she/it has been queueing/queuing
we have been queueing/queuing
you have been queueing/queuing
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Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been queueing/queuing
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he/she/it will have been queueing/queuing
we will have been queueing/queuing
you will have been queueing/queuing
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Past Perfect Continuous
I had been queueing/queuing
you had been queueing/queuing
he/she/it had been queueing/queuing
we had been queueing/queuing
you had been queueing/queuing
they had been queueing/queuing
Conditional
I would queue
you would queue
he/she/it would queue
we would queue
you would queue
they would queue
Past Conditional
I would have queued
you would have queued
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queue
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Noun
1.
queue - a line of people or vehicles waiting for somethingwaiting lineline - 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 foodcheckout line - a queue of people waiting to pay for purchaseschow 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 gasolinereception line - a line of people (hosts and guests of honor) who welcome the guests at a reception partyticket line - a queue of people waiting to buy ticketsunemployment line - a queue of people waiting for employment
2.
queue - (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmittedinformatics, information processing, information science, IP - the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded informationlist, listing - a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)push-down queue - a queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO)
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queue - a braid of hair at the back of the headbraid, plait, tress, twist - a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
Verb
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queue - form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store"queue up, line upstand, stand up - be standing; be upright; "We had to stand for the entire performance!"
queue
noun1.line, row, file, train, series, chain, string, column, sequence, succession, procession, crocodile (Brit. informal), progression, cavalcade, concatenationA queue of more than sixty people snaked its way down the pavement.2.tailback, line, traffic jam, streama long queue of angry motorists3.wait, waiting listThe queue for places at school has never been longer.verb1.wait in line, line up, stand in a queue, form a queuea line of women queueing for bread
queue
nounA group of people or things arranged in a row:column, file, line, rank, row, string, tier.Translations排队长队队列列队
queue
(kjuː) noun a line of people waiting for something or to do something. a queue for the bus. 列隊，長隊 列队，长队 verb to stand in a queue. We had to queue to get into the cinema; We had to queue for the cinema. 排隊 排队queue up to form, or stand in, a queue. We queued up for tickets. 排隊等候 排队等候
queue
→ 排队zhCN, 队列zhCN
Is this the end of the line? (US) Is this the end of the queue? (UK) → 是在这里排队吗？
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jump the queue
To go ahead of someone or multiple people who have been waiting before one. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. I wanted to shout at the man for jumping the queue, but I was too embarrassed about making a scene.There has been public outrage after it came to light that some people had been jumping the queue for surgery appointments because they had a friend or relative working at the hospital.See also: jump, queue
queue up (for something)
To get into a line to wait (for something). Sometimes also modified by "for (some amount of time)" immediately after "queue up." Primarily heard in UK. I hate having to queue up so early just to get tickets.The new restaurant has already become a huge success, with people queuing up for hours for a seat each night.We queued up for a chance to meet the author.See also: queue, up
queue up (for something)
to line up for something. (*Typically British.) We had to queue up for tickets to the play.You must queue up here to get in.See also: queue, up
jump the queue
1 push into a queue of people in order to be served or dealt with before your turn. 2 take unfair precedence over others. The US version of this expression is jump in line .See also: jump, queue
jump the ˈqueue
(British English) (American English jump the ˈline, cut in ˈline) go to the front of a line of people without waiting for your turn: I get very angry with people who jump the queue. ▶ ˈqueue-jumping (British English) (American English ˈline-jumping less frequent) noun: This practice encourages queue-jumping for medical services.See also: jump, queue
queue up
v.1. To form an ordered sequence or line; line up: The patrons queued up outside the theater. The customers queued up at the ticket booth.2. To order some set of things to deal with them in sequence; line up something: Queue up the children, and I'll serve them lunch. We'll queue the applicants up and interview them one at a time.See also: queue, up
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queue
Computing a list in which entries are deleted from one end and inserted at the other
queue
[kyü] (computer science) A list of items waiting for attention in a computer system, generally ordered according to some criteria.A linear list whose elements are inserted and deleted in a first-in-first-out order. (industrial engineering) waiting line
queue
(programming)A first-in first-out data structure used tosequence objects. Objects are added to the tail of the queue("enqueued") and taken off the head ("dequeued").
For example, an operating system might use a queue toserialise concurrent demands for a resource such as aprinter, processor or communications channel. Users mightplace files on a print queue and a background process or"demon" would take them off and print them. Another commonuse is to pass data between an interrupt handler and a userprocess.
queue
Pronounced "Q." A temporary holding place for data. See queuing, message queue and print queue.
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queue
Informatics A waiting line for a document Vox populi, UK A line. See Gender queue. LegalSeeLine
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Queue
An ordered collection of persons or things in which one is serviced after another. For example, persons may form a queue to buy tickets to the cinema. Likewise, an employee may form a list of tasks to be done each day and perform them each in turn. The word queue is most common in Britain and the Commonwealth; the equivalent in American English is waiting line or simply line.
queue
the build-up of customers who are delayed while waiting for service. Queuing can occur in a retail outlet where shoppers queue at supermarket checkouts or cars queue on petrol station forecourts. Similar queuing problems occur in factories where components queue to be processed on machines.
Variability in the demand for service and the variable time to complete service makes it difficult to judge the level of service to provide for customers. Where numerous service channels are provided, customers will experience few delays even when many customers arrive simultaneously for service. On the other hand, providing numerous service channels involves large labour costs, as in the case of supermarket checkout staff or bank clerks, or large investment in physical facilities, such as tanker berths or airport runways.
Queuing models employing statistical techniques can be used to analyse queues and to balance the cost of resources used to provide service against the cost of the time lost by customers while waiting for service.
These models consider the number of potential customers; the likely rate at which they arrive; whether they arrive singly or in batches; the number of parallel queues; maximum queue length; order of service (first come, first served or prioritized); number of servers; likely service time; and whether customers are served singly or in batches. For complex queues, SIMULATION techniques may be employed to decide the level of service to provide and how to organize the service facilities. See BALK, MULTIPLE CHANNEL-SINGLE PHASE.
AcronymsSeeQ
queue
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Synonyms for queue
noun line
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line
row
file
train
series
chain
string
column
sequence
succession
procession
crocodile
progression
cavalcade
concatenation
noun tailback
Synonyms
tailback
line
traffic jam
stream
noun wait
Synonyms
wait
waiting list
verb wait in line
Synonyms
wait in line
line up
stand in a queue
form a queue
Synonyms for queue
noun a group of people or things arranged in a row
Synonyms
column
file
line
rank
row
string
tier
Synonyms for queue
noun a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
Synonyms
waiting line
Related Words
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bread line
breadline
checkout line
chow line
gas line
reception line
ticket line
unemployment line
noun (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
queue - a line of people or vehicles waiting for something