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queue

/kjuː/ /kju/

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noun

An animal's tail.

Examples :

"The playful puppy wagged its queue excitedly, greeting us at the door. "

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A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.

Examples :

"The historical dramas often feature male characters with a long queue, the traditional hairstyle of braided hair worn down the back. "

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A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).

Examples :

"There was a long queue of students waiting to see the school counselor. "

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A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

Examples :

"The children formed a neat queue to get their lunch. "

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A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (- a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.

Examples :

"The printer processes print jobs from a queue; the first job submitted is the first one printed. "

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verb

To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

Examples :

"Seeing the long line for the movie tickets, we decided to queue at the back. "

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To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.

Examples :

"The students had to queue up to get their lunch in the cafeteria. "

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To add to a queue data structure.

Examples :

"The computer program will queue new tasks as they become available. "

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To fasten the hair into a queue.

Examples :

"He would carefully queue his long hair each morning before going to work. "

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