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queue

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noun

ˈkyü How to pronounce queue (audio)
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

queue

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verb

queued; queuing or queueing

transitive verb

: to arrange or form in a queue (see queue entry 1)

intransitive verb

: to line up or wait in a queue
—often used with up
queuer noun

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Is it que, queue, or q?

One of our persistent—and more puzzling—lookups is for the word que, which is entered in our dictionary (capitalized) as an abbreviation for Quebec. Qué is also a Spanish word that means “what.” That is not, however, the word that many people are looking for when they look up que in our dictionary. Que is homophonous with a number of other words, most of which have wildly different spellings and meanings. One of the words that people are looking for when they look up que is queue, a word that means “line” (as in, “We waited in the ticket queue.”) Sometimes people are looking for the homonym cue, or “a signal to start or do something” (“The lights just went out—that’s my cue to start the movie.”). Very occasionally, people look up que for coup, a word that refers to a violent and sudden overthrow or takeover of a government (“reports on the latest coup attempt”). And if you’re looking for the phonetic spelling of the letter q, try again: that’s cue.

Synonyms

Noun

Example Sentences

Noun 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 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 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 We were forced to stand in a queue. Three jobs remain in the printer queue. Verb The World's Food Fair, Boston. October 1896. Admission: 25 cents. Huge crowds throng the Mechanics Hall convention center. Women queue up for free samples from 200 different vendors: cereals, gelatins, extracts, candy, and custards. Christopher Kimball, Cook's Illustrated, January & February 2008 Nothing hacks off a national lawmaker more than a person who will not wait in line, unless that line is in front of an elevator at the U.S. Capitol, where Senators and Representatives use private elevators, lest they have to queue with their constituents. Steve Rushin, Time, 10 Sept. 2007 The crowd was queuing at the snack bar. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Members of the public join the queue to view Queen Elizabeth II lying in state ahead of her funeral in London on Wednesday. Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022 The main queue begins on the Albert Embankment and stretches east for miles past the London Eye, the Tate Modern and Tower Bridge. BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022 To help get your queue started, check out our list of the 15 best Hispanic movies, including Encanto, In the Heights, The Cheetah Girls 2, and Selena. Leah Campano, Seventeen, 9 Sep. 2022 This ability to quickly customize your queue, right from the main tab, made Matter feel like a big step up from its predecessors. Jordan Mcmahon, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022 The machine also looks beautiful on any countertop and has a companion app to for dad queue a brew while multitasking. Margaux Lushing, Forbes, 16 June 2022 Trailing down a busy commercial block of Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, a queue that forms once a week has been growing notably longer every month for the last two years. Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022 The Clear mobile app allows users to upload proof of vaccination before arriving, or a negative COVID-19 test result within 72 hours of entry, and the people who choose to use that service will be put in a special queue to enter. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 July 2022 Wisconsin's unemployment woes during the early months of the pandemic led to a queue that took months to clear, with the number of unpaid claims reaching over 800,000 in early August 2020. Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2022
Verb
Central Florida’s Lynx public bus system can now queue up orders to add the first electric buses to its main fleet thanks to funding announcements during the past month. Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022 In Europe, ports are backed up because dockworkers are on strike or on vacation as ships queue up, and there is an acute shortage of truck drivers. Costas Paris, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022 Loops, a technology that dates to the early 1960s, can also be placed farther away from an intersection to sense when cars have begun to queue because of congestion. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2022 Eugene’s 5th Street Public Market, a short walk from the Eugene Riverfront Festival, where crowds gathered to watch a live drag show and queue up for a zipline and shaved ice, was relatively quiet on Sunday afternoon. oregonlive, 18 July 2022 Last year, when supply chain wrangles were at their worst, the port saw dozens of ships queue up. Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 26 July 2022 The stifling heat has made mass testing all the more excruciating for residents -- some of whom have to queue for hours -- and for Covid workers, who are covered head to toe in airtight PPE equipment. Nectar Gan, CNN, 13 July 2022 City development staff note Gibbs and his partners plan to use a pre-order and appointment system during the first month of operation to ease crowds that could queue up outside the building. Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2022 Reducing staff, letting requests queue up and fast-tracking requests and closing them without validation might save money but at the user’s expense in time and work. Wai Wong, Forbes, 23 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun and Verb

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

First Known Use

Noun

1748, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1777, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of queue was in 1748

Phrases Containing queue

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