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- DictionaryQueue/kyo͞o/
noun
- 1. a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed. British
- 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"
noun. a line of people or vehicles waiting for something. synonyms: waiting line. see more. noun. (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted. see more. verb. form a queue, form a line, stand in line.
3 days ago · A queue is a line of people or vehicles that are waiting for something. 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. When people queue, they stand in a line waiting for something.
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.
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.
6 days ago · A queue is a list of computer tasks which will be done in order.
QUEUE meaning: 1 : a line of people who are waiting for something; 2 : a series of instructions that are stored in a computer so that they can be processed later.
