queue
A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence,…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).
» Get in the queue.
Stell dich mal an.
Стань у чергу.
Meaning
5 senses(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
A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
Warteliste
о́чередьóčeredʹ
че́ргаčérha, черга́čerhá
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
An animal's tail.
хвостxvost
(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 sentencesGet in the queue.
Стань у чергу.
deStell dich mal an.
I don't like waiting in queues.
The queue was long.
ruОчередь была длинная.
The shoppers stood in a queue.
Покупці стояли в черзі.
They were standing in a queue.
Вони стояли у черзі.
ruОни стояли в очереди.
deSie warteten in der Schlange.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old FrenchFrom 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: queuesSynonyms
4 synonyms- a line of people or vehicles waiting for something:waiting line