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(information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
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queue
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a line of people or vehicles waiting for something [syn: waiting line ] (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted a braid of hair at the back of the head
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Queue \Queue\, v. t. To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
Usage examples of queue.
On y voyait des chevaux brabancons, des lapins, de petits cochons, des poules, des moutons a grosse queue.
Goya, with these lines of French: Le renard preche aux poulets et quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue.
Sime Anderson stood in the queue outside the dining car, pondering a common quandary of wartime-whether to propose marriage before going off to serve in a distant place.
Guy queued for the use of a telephone in the General Post Office in Queensway.
Arabs lingered over coffee in the foyer, a group of Americans queued at Reception, there was laughter from the bar.
When her laser communicator locked on to the destroyer, the queued data fed in a burst to a suspense file aboard the cruiser.
Craig queued and managed to secure two cups of tea and a corned beef sandwich which he and Genevieve shared.
She actually queued up once for something called Creme Simon and they sold the last jar to the woman in the queue ahead of her.
Sue encountered them in the village shop or when they queued at the bread van that came twice a day.
They stopped at a small whitewashed hacienda-type coffee house, and queued again, but at least the coffee was good, though they had to share their table with another couple, who hailed from Middlesex.
Almost alone he had queued a riot a year before, using nothing but a bullhorn and a firmly pointing finger.
Those in pressing need of velocity and noise used the trolleys, numberless and variegated, queueing and charging along the wide central lanes in vaporous, indocile packs.
Even now she knew that language would stand for or even contain some order, an order that could not possibly subsist in anything she had come across so farthat shadow driving across a colourless wall, cars queueing in their tracks, the haphazard murmur of the air which gave pain when you tried to follow it with your mind .
She fell into line with the others, climbing out of the ditch and queuing for the ride back to the warehouse.
Then the detritus shuddered and she was wedged between a loose computer monitor and a lab table, queuing up for ejection.