queue
Plural
queues
1
a line in which people or vehicles wait for a particular purpose
- They waited in a long queue at the ticket counter for the concert.
- The queue of cars at the drive-thru stretched around the block.
- She stood in the queue at the grocery store checkout.
- The passengers formed a queue to board the airplane.
- There was a queue outside the popular restaurant, with people eager to get a table.
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2
a length of hair gathered and fastened to hang down at the back of the head
- The officer's queue was tied neatly with black ribbon.
- He cut off his queue when the style went out of fashion.
- The painting shows a man with a long queue reaching his shoulders.
- Soldiers were once required to keep a queue as part of their uniform.
- The queue was considered a mark of respect in that era.
3
(computing) a sequence of items such as tasks, commands, or messages arranged to be handled in order
- Print jobs entered the queue one after another.
- The program placed new requests at the end of the queue.
- Errors caused the message queue to grow uncontrollably.
- The administrator cleared the queue to restart the system.
- The email was stuck in the outgoing queue.