queue

¹queue

noun \ˈkyü\

Definition of QUEUE

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

Examples of QUEUE

1. We were forced to stand in a queue.
2. Three jobs remain in the printer queue.
3. The Tiong Bahru hawker center in Singapore might well be my favorite place in the world to start the day. I remember vividly my first visit: I arrived jetlagged and hungry at seven in the morning to find vendors stir-frying greens in gigantic woks, sending up whooshes of smoke fragrant with garlic. Long queues of businessmen and construction workers and families who likely lived in the nearby housing projects snaked from the cash register of each stall. —James Oseland, Saveur, October 2008
4. Around the time the Soviet Union ceased to exist, I was waiting in the entry queue at Fiumicino Airport in Rome when I noticed a party of several dozen young Russian girls being fast-tracked past a freshly opened control window. —Peter Robb, New York Times Book Review, 25 May 2008
5. But many more people deserve the Nobel than get it. Krauss should've gotten it years ago. Though by now so many other discoveries have been made that he's farther down in an ever increasing queue. —Carl Djerassi Cantor's Dilemma, 1989

Origin of QUEUE

French, literally, tail, from Old French cue, coe, Latin cauda, coda

First Known Use: 1748

Related to QUEUE

Synonyms: column, cue, file, line, range, string, train

Related Words: echelon, rank, row, tier; chain, progression, sequence, succession; array

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Other Computer-Related Terms

adware, flash, kludge, phishing, recursive, router

Rhymes with QUEUE

blue, boo, brew, chew, clew, clue, coo, coup, crew, cue, dew, do, doux, due, ewe, few, flu, flue, fou, glue, gnu, goo, hew, hue, Jew, Koo, lieu, loo, mew, moo, moue, mu, new, nu, ooh, pew, phew, pooh, q, roux, rue, screw, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skew, slew, slough, slue, smew, sou, sous, spew, sprue, stew, strew, sue, Sue, thew, through, to, too, true, two, u, view, whew, who, woo, xu, yew, you, zoo