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   Queue

   /kyo͞o/

   

   noun

   • 1. a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed. British Similar linerowcolumnfilechainstringstreamprocessiontrainsuccessionprogressioncavalcadesequenceserieswaiting listreserve listbreadlinewait listbackupwaiting lineinformal:crocodiletraffic jamjamtailbackstreamgridlocklineinformal:traffic snarlsnarl-up
   • 2. a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.
   • 3. a braid of hair worn at the back. archaic

   verb

   • 1. take one's place in a queue: British "in the war they had queued for food"
   • ▪ be extremely keen to do or have something: "companies are queuing up to move to the bay"
   • 2. arrange in a queue: "input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system"

   Word Origin late 16th century (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue2. queue (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the mid 19th century.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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   • U

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   • E

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   • U

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