queue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn for something.

   There was a long queue outside the cinema.

2. 2
   verb

   To wait in a line for your turn.

   We had to queue for an hour to buy tickets.

3. 3
   noun

   In computing, a set of tasks or items handled in order, one after another.

   Your print job has been added to the queue.

Multiword verbs with queue

• queue up Phrasal verb B1

  to form or join a line while waiting

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Simplified etymology

Queue came into late Middle English from French, ultimately from Latin cauda, “tail.” It first referred to an animal’s tail in heraldry, later to a pigtail, and from the mid-19th century to a line of people.

From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda and cola.

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