Queue

Definition: Queue

Queue

Noun

1. A line of people or vehicles waiting for something.

2. (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted.

3. A braid of hair at the back of the head.

Verb

1. Form a queue, form a line, stand in line.

Date "queue" was first used: 15th century. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Queue A first-in first-out data structure used to sequence multiple demands for a resource such as a printer, processor or communications channel. Objects are added to the tail of the queue and taken off the head. A typical use of queues in an operating system involves a user command which places something on a queue, e.g. a file on a printer queue or a job on a job queue, and a background process or "demon" which takes things off and processes them (e.g. prints or executes them). Another common use is to pass data between an interrupt handler and a user process. (1995-05-11). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
19th Century Satire	The only Mongolian line connecting America and China. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Economics	A line of people, vehicles etc., especially a waiting line as before a ticket window or a toll booth. (references)
Finance	The waiting list for the issue of securities. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Queue Gare la queue des Allemands. Before you quarrel, count the consequences. (See Querelle .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Math	A set of items in which only the earliest added item may be accessed. Basic operations are add (to the tail) or enqueue and delete (from the head) or dequeue. Delete returns the item removed. Also known as "first-in, first-out" or FIFO. (references)
Post & Telecom	Number of storage places in which calls may be held, in order of arrival, to await connection to an operator. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In providing services to people, and in computer science, transportation, and operations research a queue is a First-In-First-Out FIFO process.

For queueing people, see queue area.

In computer science, compare:

Array
Data structure
Deque
Priority queue
Linked list
Stack

The Oroogu programming language relies on queues as its only data structure

Synonyms: Queue

Synonyms: waiting line (n), line up (v), queue up (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Poverty	Verb: be poor; Adjective: want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny; (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt; (debt).
Sequel	Noun: 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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Queue

English words defined with "queue": bread line, breadline ♦ checkout line, chow line ♦ gas line ♦ in line ♦ line up ♦ push-down queue ♦ queue up ♦ ticket line ♦ unemployment line. (references)

Specialty definitions using "queue": best-first search, binomial heap, Borel-Tanner distribution, bounded queue, breadth-first search, buried treasure ♦ calendar queue, circular queue ♦ Dijkstra's algorithm, Distributed Queue Dual Bus, double-ended priority queue, DQDB ♦ FIFO queue, FIFO-list, first-in, first-out ♦ hash heap ♦ instruction prefetch, Intel 8086, interrupt handler ♦ Kendall's terminology ♦ livelock ♦ monotone priority queue ♦ Objective C ♦ Premier Pas, Prendre un Rat par la Queue, priority queue, progress queue, pushup list, push-up queue ♦ Querelle d'Allemand ♦ unsolvable problem. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Queue" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (brush, cue, Dick, Dong, line, prick, queue, rear, scut, stalk, stem, tail), German (cue).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Then you understood right, Merivel Miss Clemence is to be married and seemingly dispatched out of London with her husband, while in fact, I secrete her near the river in queue - the better to sport with her unobserved For her husband, I need a man who is far too enamored of women in general to make the mistake of loving one in particular (Restoration; writing credit: Rupert Walters)
Movie/TV Titles	Prenez la queue comme tout monde (1973) Le Diable par la queue (1969) The Wrong Queue (1926) Queue de poisson (1992) La Queue de la comète (1988)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Cics/VSE Client/Server Solutions Implementing the Message Queue Interface (reference) Homo Caudatus. Les hommes à queue d'Afrique Centrale: un avatar de l'imaginaire occidental. (reference) Jumping the Queue (reference) Maigret Et Les Petits Cochons Sans Queue (George Simenon Mysteries , No 3) (reference) The Man in the Queue (reference) (more book examples)

Music	James Deans of the Dole Queue [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Burma	Over 400,000 students are waiting in a queue to enter the university system. (references)
	Armenia	Thirteen of these plants have already been privatized, while others are in the queue. (references)
	Uae	An international cargo ship can cut 24 hours off the sailing time from Europe to the Far East by not joining the queue to pass through the busy straits; by-passing the Gulf also means lower insurance rates. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Queue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.47% of the time. "Queue" is used about 928 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	85.47%	793	8,741
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	8.93%	83	36,350
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.6%	52	47,145
Total	100.00%	928	N/A

Expressions using "queue": distributed Queue Dual Bus ♦ FIFO queue ♦ fish queue ♦ jump the queue ♦ priority queue ♦ progress queue ♦ queue jump ♦ queue jumper ♦ queue number ♦ queue ticket ♦ queue up ♦ stand in a queue ♦ tirer le diable par la queue ♦ wait in a queue. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "queue": queue-control, queue-free, queue-jumping, queue-voting.
	Ending with "queue": dole-queue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "queue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thur gërshet (plait, plat), radhë (batch, consecution, cue, file, inning, innings, place, play, range, rank, row, run, series, tier, turn), gërshet (braid, plait, plat, tail, tress), bisht (crook, fag end, flagellum, handle, prat, scape, stalk, stem, stub, tail, tail end, tip, train). (various references)

Arabic		‏وقف في الطابور, ‏وقف في الصف, ‏عقصة (bob, braid, curl, pigtail), ‏طية (flexure, fold, gather, lap, lappet, plait, plica, recess, tuck, wrap), ‏طابور (column, crocodile, cue, file, line, row, tabor), ‏ضفيرة (braid, cue, pigtail, plait, plexor, tress), ‏ضفر (braid, cue, entwine, plaiting, wattle, wreathe, writhe), ‏صف (alignment, bank, classroom, course, cue, delineate, grade, lane, line, lineup, range, rank, row, schoolroom, tier), ‏إنتظر دوره, ‏إصطف في الطابور, ‏رتل (be regular, chant, column, cue, intone, run, string). (various references)

Bulgarian		чакам на опашка, опашка (flapper, line, line up, petiole, scut, stern, tail, tail end), нареждам се на опашка (line up), плитка (braid, cue, pigtail, plait, plat, rope). (various references)

Chinese		队列. (various references)

Czech		fronta (face, front, frontage, line), řada (array, bank, file, line, range, rank, round, row, sequence, series, set, string, tier). (various references)

Danish		koe (line-up, wait list), FIFO-liste (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), FIFO-kø (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), direkte liste (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue). (various references)

Dutch		wachtrij (wait list), FIFO-wachtrij (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), directe lijst (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue). (various references)

Farsi		صف اتوبوس وغیره , صف (Army, Array, Cue, Muster, Rank, Row, Tier), درصف ایستادن . (various references)

Finnish		jono (line, queue. file, range, succession). (various references)

French		queue, natter, natte, liste directe (FIFO queue, push-up queue), file d'attente (FIFO queue, push-up queue), file, faire la queue (queue up), attendre son tour dans la queue. (various references)

German		Warteschlange (pueue, wait list, waiting line), schlange (coil, jezebel, line, procession, serpent, snake, string, train, viper). (various references)

Greek		σειρά ανθρώπων, ουρά (cue, hooray, hurrah, hurray, tail). (various references)

Hebrew		לעמו�" בתור, תור (course, epoch, era, line, turn). (various references)

Hungarian		szalaggal befont hosszú tincs, szalaggal, sorban áll (to queue, to stand in a line, to stand in a queue, to stand in line), sorbaállás (alignment, line-up), sor sorbaálláskor, sor (array, bed, enfilade, file, line, private, pvt, range, rank, rope, row, scale, series, tier), hosszú sor, befont hosszú varkocs. (various references)

Indonesian		mengantri, baris (ranks, slide rule, verse), antreana. (various references)

Italian		fila, coda, fila (file, line, range, rank, row, series, string, tier, train, turn), fare la fila (line up, queue up), fare la coda, coda FIFO (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), coda (line, tail, train). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		弁髪 (pigtail), キャンプ村 (campaign, campaign sale, campsite, Canberra, Canon, Cuba, Cuban heel, cubic, cubic type, cubism, cue, culotte, culotte skirt, Cupid, curacao, curator, cure, curie, curiosity, curium, cute, cuticle, cuticle cream, cuticle remover, cutie, killer, killer dust, kiosk), 列 (line, row). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		べ�"ぱつ (pigtail), れつ (cold, line, row), キュー (cue). (various references)

Korean		대기열. (various references)

Manx		jannoo famman, jannoo arbyl, famman (appendage, stem of note, tail, tail end), arbyl (end, fluke of whale, slick, stem of note, stern, tail, train of dress). (various references)

Norwegian		kø (cue). (various references)

Pig Latin		euequay

Portuguese		trança (braid, pigtail, plait, plat, tress), lista directa (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), formar fila, fila FIFO (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), fila de espera (wait list), fazer um rabicho, entrançar (braid, mat, plait, plat, pleach, splice, twine, twist, wreathe), enfileirar (align, aline, course, range, rank, row). (various references)

Romanian		sta la coadã, se aşeza la coadã, rând (batch, bout, file, innings, it, line, range, rank, round, row, series, stage, stem, string, succession, time, train, turn), meşã, coadã (brush, handle, pigtail, rear, shaft, shank, staff, stalk, stem, tail, trail, train, tress), şir (catena, catenation, column, course, file, line, pack, range, rank, rope, row, series, string, succession, train), împleti în formã de coadã. (various references)

Russian		стоять в очереди, хвост (shank, tail, tongue, trail), коса (braid, foreland, pigtail, plait, scythe, tress), очередь (file, line, turn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uplesti kiku, stati u red (line up, queue up), red (array, consecution, cue, inning, innings, line, order, ordinance, phylum, progression, row, series, turn), perčin (larkspur, pigtail), napraviti red (queue up), kika (pigtail, plait, ponytail). (various references)

Spanish		vaso para el vino, trenza (braid, pigtail, plait, strand, tail, tress, twist), pila de desplazamiento ascendente (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), lista FIFO (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), lista directa (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), lista de espera (waiting list), lista de desplazamiento ascendente (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushdown list, push-down list, pushup list, push-up queue, stack), hacer una trenza, hacer cola (draggle, line up, queue up), fila de coches, coleta (pigtail), cola FIFO (FIFO queue, FIFO-list, pushup list, push-up queue), cola (bottom, cement, glue, gum, line, rear, size, tail, trail, train). (various references)

Swedish		kö (file, line, lineup, rank, row, turn), köa. (various references)

Turkish		saç örgüsü (braid, plat, tress), sıra olmak (form a line, queue up, rank), sıra (alignment, arrangement, array, bench, desk, file, form, linage, line, occasion, order, ordinal, place, progression, range, rank, row, sequence, series, settle, slot, spell, succession, tier, train, turn), kuyruk (breech, brush, caudal, cue, line, scut, tail, tail fin, together, trail, train), kuyruğa girmek (queue up, stand on the line), dizi (battery, chain, cluster, course, cycle, order, progression, range, rank, rope, round, row, sequence, serial, series, set, string, tier, train), at kuyruğu (horsetail, pony tail). (various references)

Turkmen		nobat tutmak, nobat (turn). (various references)

Ukrainian		стояти в черзі, черга (salvo, turn, volley), коса (back-hair, braid, neck, plait, scythe, tress), заплітати косу. (various references)

Welsh		rhes (bank, line, rank, row, stripe), cwt (hut, skirt, sty, tail). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	cue. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	queue. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "queue": queued, queueing, queuer, queuers, queues. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Queue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gueuze, qeue, quabe, quage, quaie, quape, quawe, que, quea, queam, quease, quebe, quece, quede, quee, queeb, queec, queeeep, queef, Queeg, queek, queem, queep, queev, queex, queey, queez, quefe, quege, quei, queje, quene, queol, quepe, queque, quere, quese, quete, queu, queuee, queur, queve, quewe, queye, queze, quije, quiu, quoie, quoje, quou, quque, qu'une, qveue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "queue" (pronounced kyuw")
3	k y uw"	askew, cue, miscue, skew.
2	-y uw"	debut, ewe, few, fondue, Hew, hue, imbue, mew, pew, phew, Pugh, review, revue, spew, view, yew, you.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words containing the letters "e-e-q-u-u"
	+1 letter: queued, queuer, queues.
	+2 letters: queuers.
	+3 letters: queueing, quietude, usquebae.
	+4 letters: burlesque, equisetum, equivoque, quietudes, quietuses, unequaled, unquieter, usquebaes.
	+5 letters: arquebuses, brusquerie, burlesqued, burlesquer, burlesques, equisetums, equivoques, humoresque, inquietude, roquelaure, sequestrum, squeteague, statuesque, subsequent, unequalled, unequipped, uniqueness, unquietest, unrequited.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
queue	188	length output queue	4
grosse queue	30	between difference queue stack	4
gross queue	20	stacks and queue	4
print queue	16	game queue	4
message queue	12	printer queue	4
index manager queue	12	jump queue	4
cheval de queue	11	ma queue suce	4
queue management	10	java queue	4
belle queue	9	c# queue	4
bonheur glissante la le queue	9	piano queue	4
priority queue	9	castor de queue	4
queue management system	7	queue stl	3
de queue suceuse	6	java queue work workflow	3
queue system	6	gay queue	3
audio queue	6	brie en la queue	3
queue theory	6	message queue window	3
c queue	6	lite manager print queue	3
print queue manager	5	c++ queue	3
message posix queue window	5	abla bonheur farhoud glissante la le queue	3
data queue	5	kanban limiting queue tool	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Queue

Definition: Queue

Queue

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Queue

Specialty Definition: Queue

Synonyms: Queue

Synonyms within Context: Queue

Poverty

Sequel

Crosswords: Queue

Modern Usage: Queue

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Image Slideshow: Queue

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Modern Translation: Queue

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Anagrams: Queue

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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