Definitions for queue

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Spelling: [kyoo]

IPA: /kyu/

Queue is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in queue (eequu).

Definitions for queue

noun

1. a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
2. a file or line, especially of people waiting their turn.
3. Computers. a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to form in a line while waiting (often followed by up).
2. Computers. to arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc.) into a queue.

Origin of queue

1585-95; Middle French Latin cauda, cōda tail

Examples for queue

At the beginning of this year, the queue in Embassy/Baghdad was roughly 2,000 cases (meaning upwards of 4-5,000 individuals).

Of course, it could take some time, given that Syria has pushed a lot of things to the back of the queue.

I walked along the shining hoods until I came to a shabby town car at the tail of the queue.

Here is the Napoleon, the man with a queue, and the Philippe that I have bitten.

With Seacrest, the queue of big-name Miss Havishams in lacy, "nude" boring dresses reached a critical mass.

A few years ago, I was standing in a queue behind two men and eavesdropping on their conversation.

On the sidewalk, a queue of men was being held in line by a burly cop.

To buy my turn in the queue when the meat is being distributed.

It is required, however, that they should take their places in the queue.

There always must be these people who cannot stand in line in a queue and be fair.