Queue

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.1.2 Translations 1.2 Intransitive verb 1.3 Transitive verb 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 See also 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Derived terms

English

Noun

queue (plural queues)

1. (UK) A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which the person or object at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end.
2. (UK) A waiting list or other means of organising people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
3. (computing) A data structure in which objects are processed from one end, called the head, and added to the other, called the tail, in an analogous manner to a queue in the sense above, this method of processing being called first-in first-out.

Synonyms

• (1): line (US)

Translations

• Finnish: jono (1,2)
• French: file f (1, 2)
• German: Warteschlange f (1)
• Hebrew: תור m (1, 2)
• Italian: fila f (1)
• Portuguese: fila f (1)
• Spanish: coleta f (1)
• Swedish: kö
• Danish: kø
• Dutch: (wacht)rij

Intransitive verb

to queue (present participle queuing or queueing, past tense and past participle queued)

1. Of a person or vehicle, to put oneself or itself at the end of a queue (in sense 1).
2. Of people or vehicles, to arrange themselves into a queue (in sense 1).

Transitive verb

to queue something up

1. (computing or informal) To enqueue, to add something to a queue.

Synonyms

• (1): join a queue, join the queue
• (2): queue up

Translations

• Italian: fare la fila (2)
• Swedish: köa

See also

• dequeue
• double-ended queue
• FIFO
• first-in first-out
• queueing theory
• queue up
• queue-jump

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kø/
• SAMPA: /k2/

Noun

queue f

1. tail
2. queue, line
3. (slang) penis

Derived terms

• à la queue leu leu

et:queue el:queue fr:queue ko:queue hu:queue ja:queue pt:queue fi:queue zh:queue