queue
[kyoo]
- a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
- a file or line, especially of people waiting their turn.
- Computers. a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action.
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- to form in a line while waiting (often followed by up).
- Computers. to arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc.) into a queue.
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Origin of queue
1585–95; < Middle French < Latin cauda, cōda tail
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Contemporary Examples
They queued at roadside snack stands for rations of peanuts, a holiday tradition.
Most recently, Venezuelans queued for hours in search of wheat flour.
By two in the afternoon, the customers were queued up down the block.
They queued up and took their place in the crowded, darkened cinema with the public.
Mostly, there were office workers on their lunch breaks and ladies from Long Island queued up for a shot at—well, not quite fame.
Historical Examples
That some of them clubbed and some of them queued their hair, I have already remarked.
The Historical ChildOscar Chrisman
She then went to a trunk and got a ribbon and queued my hair very nicely.
queue
- a line of people, vehicles, etc, waiting for somethinga queue at the theatre
- computing a list in which entries are deleted from one end and inserted at the other
- a pigtail
- jump the queue See queue-jump
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- (intr often foll by up) to form or remain in a line while waiting
- computing to arrange (a number of programs) in a predetermined order for accessing by a computer
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US and Canadian word: line
Word Origin
C16 (in the sense: tail); C18 (in the sense: pigtail): via French from Latin cauda tail
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Word Origin and History for queued
queue
n.
late 15c., "band attached to a letter with seals dangling on the free end," from French queue "a tail," from Old French cue, coe "tail" (12c., also "penis"), from Latin coda (dialectal variant or alternative form of cauda) "tail," of unknown origin. Also in literal use in 16c. English, "tail of a beast," especially in heraldry. The Middle English metaphoric extension to "line of dancers" (c.1500) led to extended sense of "line of people, etc." (1837). Also used 18c. in sense of "braid of hair hanging down behind" (first attested 1748).
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