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Meaning of Queue
« on: December 28, 2019, 04:14:51 PM »
queue
definition from
Oxford Dictionary of English -

queue /kjuː  /
▸ noun
1 mainly British a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.
2 Computing a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.
3 archaic a plait of hair worn at the back.
▸ verb
(queues, queuing or queueing, queued)
1 [no object] mainly British take one's place in a queue:
in the war they had queued for food.
(queue up) be extremely keen to do or have something:
companies are queuing up to move to the bay.
2 [with object] Computing arrange in a queue:
input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system.
– ORIGIN late 16th century (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue2. queue (SENSE 1 OF THE noun) dates from the mid 19th century.


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