queue
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Noun
- {{lb|en|UK|Ireland|Commonwealth|less common|_|in North America}} A [[line#English:_queue, especially for waiting|line]] of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be [[deal#Verb|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]]). {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
- A [[waiting list]] or other means of [[organize|organizing]] people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
- {{lb|en|computing}} 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. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
- {{lb|en|heraldry}} An animal's [[tail]]. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
- {{senseid|en|hairstyle}} {{lb|en|now|_|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]]. {{defdate|from 18th c.}}
Verb
- {{lb|en|intransitive}} To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
- {{lb|en|intransitive}} To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
- {{lb|en|computing|transitive}} To add to a queue data structure.
- To fasten the hair into a queue.
- {{lb|en|video games}} To [[matchmake]].
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