Meaning of a word???

Question

I have tried looking up this word and I can't find it anywhere. Can someone help with the word queue?

Answer 1

Means a line. In the US we stand in line or on line, in the UK they stand in a queue. Also the pigtail worn by Chinese in the past.

Answer 2

–noun 1. a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
2. a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn.
3. Computers. a FIFO (first in first out)-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action.
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object) 4. to form in a line while waiting (often fol. by up).
5. Computers. to arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc.) into a queue.

Answer 3

queue is actually a French word meaning "tail" or more commonly now, "line" or line up"

You wait in a queue to buy movie tickets.

Answer 4

It's used alternately as "to wait" and "a line to be waited in."

If your workplace has your computer networked to a printer that you're sharing with coworkers, your print requests go into a printer queue--meaning you have to wait for all the print jobs in front of yours to process.

Answer 5

It's the English term for a line of people also a braid at the back of one's head, a sequence of messages or data