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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"
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 series of pieces of data, files to be printed, calls, etc. that are waiting to be dealt with by a computer, telephone system, etc.: I turned the printer off and cleared the print queue. If the printer queue is blocked, a user can clear their own documents from the queue, but not anybody else's.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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] Manchester United would be at the front of a queue of potential buyers. [ + of] Single parents got priority in the housing queue.
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.
to go to the front of a line of people without waiting for your turn. Definition of queue noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definition of queue verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
