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Queue
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Queue has 3 senses
- queue(n = noun.group) waiting line - a line of people or vehicles waiting for something; Array is a kind of line
- queue(n = noun.communication) Array - (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted; Array is a kind of list, listing
- queue(n = noun.body) Array - a braid of hair at the back of the head; Array is a kind of braid, plait, tress, twist
has particulars: bread line, breadline, checkout line, chow line, gas line, reception line, ticket line, unemployment line
Derived form verb queue1
has particulars: push-down queue
Verb Queue has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
Queue, n. [F. See Cue.].
A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail. [1913 Webster]
Queue, v. t.
To fasten, as hair, in a queue. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Queue, n. & v. esp. Brit.
--n.
1 a line or sequence of persons, vehicles, etc., awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.
2 a pigtail or plait of hair.
--v.intr. (queues, queued, queuing or queueing) (often foll. by up) (of persons etc.) form a queue; take one's place in a queue.
--n.
1 a line or sequence of persons, vehicles, etc., awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.
2 a pigtail or plait of hair.
--v.intr. (queues, queued, queuing or queueing) (often foll. by up) (of persons etc.) form a queue; take one's place in a queue.
Idiom
queue-jump Brit. push forward out of turn in a queue.
Etymology
F f. L cauda tail
THESAURUS
Queue
Indian file, afterpart, afterpiece, array, articulation, bank, braid, brush, bun, buzz, catena, catenation, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chignon, coil, column, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, cordon, cortege, course, crocodile, cue, cycle, descent, dock, drone, echelon, endless belt, endless round, fall in, fall into line, fall into rank, fantail, file, filiation, form a line, gamut, get in formation, get in line, gradation, hum, knot, line, line up, lineage, monotone, nexus, order, pendulum, periodicity, picket, pigtail, plait, plenum, powder train, procession, progression, queue up, range, rank, rattail, recurrence, reticulation, retinue, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, string, stub, succession, swath, tab, tag, tail, tailback, tailpiece, take rank, thread, tier, topknot, trail, trailer, train, twist, wake, windrowROGET THESAURUS
Queue
Sequel
N sequel, suffix, successor, tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear, retinue, suite, appendix, postscript, epilogue, peroration, codicil, continuation, sequela, appendage, tail piece, heelpiece, tag, more last words, colophon, aftercome, aftergrowth, afterpart, afterpiece, aftercourse, afterthought, aftergame, arriere pensee, second thoughts, outgrowth.
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