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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈkjuː/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/kju/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(kyo̅o̅)

Inflections of 'queue' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

queues: v 3rd person singular

queuing: v pres p

queued: v past

queued: v past p

queue /kyu/USA pronunciation n., v., queued, queu•ing.
n. [countable]

a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn.
Computinga number of items waiting in a certain order for electronic action in a computer system:a queue for printing jobs.

to form in a line while waiting:[no object;(~ + up)]People had queued (up) for hours to buy tickets.
Computing to arrange or organize (electronic data) into a queue:[~ + object]The computer program queues the various print jobs.

queue (kyo̅o̅),USA pronunciation n., v., queued, queu•ing.
n.

a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn.
Computinga FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action.

v.i., v.t.

to form in a line while waiting (often fol. by up).
Computingto arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc.) into a queue.

Latin cauda, cōda tail
Middle French
1585–95

queu′er, n.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

queue /kjuː/ chiefly Brit n

a line of people, vehicles, etc, waiting for somethingUS and Canadian word: line
a list in which entries are deleted from one end and inserted at the other
a pigtail
jump the queue ⇒ See queue-jump

vb (queues, queuing, queueing, queued)

(intransitive) often followed by up: to form or remain in a line while waiting
to arrange (a number of programs) in a predetermined order for accessing by a computer

Etymology: 16th Century (in the sense: tail); C18 (in the sense: pigtail): via French from Latin cauda tail

'queue' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

breadline - column - cue - head - jump - line - push in - queue-jump - tailback - coda - double-tailed - LIFO - queue fourché - queuing theory - tail

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Synonyms: line, row, file, rank, procession, more...

Collocations: is waiting in (the) queue for, am number [45] in the queue, is in queue for download, more...

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British word "queue"
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