## Meanings
1. A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn for something.
2. To wait in a line for your turn.
3. In computing, a set of tasks or items handled in order, one after another.

## Examples
- There was a long queue outside the cinema.
- We had to queue for an hour to buy tickets.
- Your print job has been added to the queue.

## Derived Forms
- dequeue
- enqueue
- nonqueued
- nonqueueing
- queueable
- queueless
- queuer
- requeue
- unqueued

## Related Forms
- caudal
- cue
- fifo
- lifo
- queue-jump
- queue-jumper
- queueless

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: queue
- Root: cöe
- Root: cōda
- Root: cauda

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Queue comes 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. In present-day English it covers a line of people or vehicles waiting their turn for something, to wait in a line for your turn, and in computing, a set of tasks or items handled in order, one after another. The wider family includes derived forms such as dequeue, enqueue, nonqueued, nonqueueing, queueable and related forms such as caudal, cue, fifo, lifo.

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