Queue

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  • noun. A line of waiting people or vehicles.
  • noun. A long braid of hair worn hanging down the back of the neck; a pigtail.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A sequence of stored data or programs awaiting processing.
  • noun. A data structure from which the first item that can be retrieved is the one stored earliest.
  • intransitive verb. To get in line.
  • intransitive verb. To place in a sequence.
  • intransitive verb. To braid or twist (hair) into a queue.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To tie, braid, or fasten in a queue or pigtail.
  • noun. A tail; in heraldry, the tail of a beast.
  • noun. A tail or pendent braid of hair; a pigtail: originally part of the wig, but afterward, and toward the close of the eighteenth century, when it was in common use, formed of the hair of the head. See cue,1.
  • noun. Same as cue, 2.
  • noun. The tail-piece of a violin or similar instrument.
  • noun. In musical notation, the stem or tail of a note.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
  • noun. A line of persons waiting anywhere.
  • transitive verb. To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
  • verb. To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
  • verb. To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
  • verb. To add to a queue data structure.
  • verb. To fasten the hair into a queue.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
  • noun. a braid of hair at the back of the head
  • verb. form a queue, form a line, stand in line
  • noun. (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
  • Word Usage
    "At the head of the queue is a woman carrying a baby in her arms."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    braid  plait  stand  stand up  tress  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku  Blue  Cebu  Chengdu  Chou  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    buffer  cache  database  folder  format  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    queued  queueing  queues