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Waiting line, in London
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queue
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "band attached to a letter with seals dangling on the free end," from French queue "a tail," from Old French cue , coe "tail" (12c., also "penis"), from Latin coda (dialectal variant or alternative form of cauda ) "tail," of unknown origin. Also ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bus queue British English (= a line of people waiting for a bus ) ▪ We were chatting while we stood in the bus queue. joined the dole queue ▪ As two factories closed today, 500 people joined the dole queue . the ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer science , a queue is a particular kind of abstract data type or collection in which the entities in the collection are kept in order and the principal (or only) operations on the collection are the addition of entities to the rear terminal position, ...
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.