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- Dictionaryqueue/kjuː/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
a line of people, cars, etc. waiting for something or to do something. There were long queues at polling stations. the bus queue. the front/head/back/end of the queue. queue for something I had to join a queue for the toilets. Patients face lengthy queues for treatment. queue of somebody/something There was a queue of traffic waiting to turn right.
Definition of queue verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
queue meaning, definition, what is queue: a line of people waiting to enter a buil...:
