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Definition queue

Etymology

Borrowed from French queue (“tail”), from Old French cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin c?da, from Latin cauda. See also Anglo-Norman queue, keu, Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda.

Noun

queue (plural queues)

1. (heraldry) An animal's tail. [from 16th c.]
2. (now historical) 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. [from 18th c.]
3. 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). [from 19th c.]
4. A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
5. (computing) 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. [from 20th c.]

Verb

queue (third-person singular simple present queues, present participle queueing or queuing, simple past and past participle queued)

1. (intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
2. (intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
3. (computing, transitive) To add to a queue data structure.
4. To fasten the hair into a queue.

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