queued

American  

[kyood] / kyud /

adjective

1. waiting in a line.

   The motorcycle zipped by, overtaking the queued cars and cutting in front of all of them.

2. Computers. assigned to or arranged in a list of items waiting for action.

   The service has since been restored and all queued emails have been delivered.

   The queued operations may be rearranged and optimized before execution.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of queue.

Etymology

Origin of queued

queue ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ), -ed ³ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Have you queued up the Beatles song since celebrating your birthday this year?

From Los Angeles Times

Residents queued up to buy food in grocery stores and the masked, heavily armed police visible the previous day were gone, AFP correspondents said.

From Barron's

People who queued for hours at a dental practice say they were forced to pay for a hygienist appointment before being allowed to register as NHS patients.

From BBC

On Tuesday, people queued outside the Bulgarian National Bank and several currency exchange offices in the capital Sofia to obtain euros, an AFP journalist observed.

From Barron's

He had come to vote at Notre Dame college in the Plateau district, where voters queued in a hall below a huge portrait of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the west African nation's founding president.

From Barron's