1 (BrE) (AmE line) a line of people, cars, etc. waiting for sth or to do sth:
the bus queue * I had to join a queue for the toilets. * How long were you in the queue? * There was a queue of traffic waiting to turn right.
2 (computing) a list of items of data stored in a particular order
IDIOMS see JUMPv.
verb (queuing or queueing)
1 [V] (BrE) ~ (up) (for sth) to wait in a line of people, vehicles, etc. in order to do sth, get sth or go somewhere:
We had to queue up for an hour for the tickets. * Queue here for taxis.
2 (computing) to add tasks to other tasks so that they are ready to be done in order; to come together to be done in order:
[VN] The system queues the jobs before they are processed. [also V]
PHRASALVERBS
be queuing up (for sth / to do sth) if people are said to be queuing up for sth or to do sth, a lot of them want to have it or do it:
Italian football clubs are queuing up to sign the young star.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is queue a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, queue is tagged as noun.
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