Que vs. Queue

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  • Que (noun)

    clipping of barbeque

  • Queue (noun)

    An animal’s tail. from 16th c.

  • Queue (noun)

    A men’s hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. from 18th c.

  • Queue (noun)

    A dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). from 19th c.

  • Queue (noun)

    A organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

  • Queue (noun)

    A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (- a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide. from 20th c.

  • Queue (verb)

    To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

  • Queue (verb)

    To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.

  • Queue (verb)

    To add to a queue data structure.

  • Queue (verb)

    To fasten the hair into a queue.

Wiktionary
  • Queue (noun)

    a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.

  • Queue (noun)

    a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.

  • Queue (noun)

    a plait of hair worn at the back.

  • Queue (verb)

    take one’s place in a queue

    “in the war they had queued for food”

  • Queue (verb)

    be extremely keen to do or have something

    “companies are queuing up to move to the bay”

  • Queue (verb)

    arrange in a queue

    “input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system”

Oxford Dictionary

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