Meaning

5 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncommon)A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the 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).

    Schlange, Warteschlange, Reihe

    о́чередьóčeredʹ

    че́ргаčérha, черга́čerhá

    a line of people or vehicles waiting for something

  2. A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

    Warteliste

    о́чередьóčeredʹ

    че́ргаčérha, черга́čerhá

  3. A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.

    о́чередьóčeredʹ, стекstɛk

  4. An animal's tail.

    хвостxvost

  5. (historical)A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.

    коси́чкаkosíčka, коса́kosá, хвостxvost

    a braid of hair at the back of the head

Examples

220 sentences
  1. Get in the queue.

    Стань у чергу.

    deStell dich mal an.

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  2. I don't like waiting in queues.

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  3. The queue was long.

    ruОчередь была длинная.

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  4. The shoppers stood in a queue.

    Покупці стояли в черзі.

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  5. They were standing in a queue.

    Вони стояли у черзі.

    ruОни стояли в очереди.

    deSie warteten in der Schlange.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
line of people:
Русский
By meaning 4
line of people:
data structure:
heraldry: animal's tail:
hairstyle:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
line of people:
waiting list:

Origin

From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French

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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Forms

plural: queues
Singularqueue
Pluralqueues

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
line of people, vehicles, etc:lineA1lineup
Close in meaning
  • a line of people or vehicles waiting for something:waiting line

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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