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noun
- 1. a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed. British Similar
- 2. a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.
verb
- 1. take one's place in a queue: British "in the war they had queued for food"
- 2. arrange in a queue: "input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system"
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to wait in a line of people, often to buy something: Dozens of people were queueing up to get tickets. We had to queue for three hours to get in. [ I ] to want very much to do something: [ + to infinitive ] There are thousands of young women queueing up to be models.
1. : a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head. 2. : a waiting line especially of persons or vehicles. 3. a. : a sequence of messages or jobs held in temporary storage awaiting transmission or processing. b. : a data structure that consists of a list of records such that records are added at one end and removed from the other.
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.
noun. 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.
A queue is a line of things, usually people. If you go to the store on a big sale day, there will probably be a long queue at the check-out.
A queue is a line of people or vehicles that are waiting for something. He got a tray and joined the queue. American English : line / ˈlaɪn / of people, vehicles
Definition of queue noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of 'queue'. 1. A queue is a line of people or vehicles that are waiting for something. [mainly British] [...] 2. If you say there is a queue of people who want to do or have something, you mean that a lot of people are waiting for an opportunity to do it or have it. [mainly British] [...]
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QUEUE definition: 1. a row of people waiting for something, one behind the other: 2. to stand in a row in order to…. Learn more.
