Queue

Noun

 * 1)  An animal's tail.
 * 2) *1863, Charles Boutell, A Manual of Heraldry, p. 369:
 * HESSE: Az., a lion, queue fourchée, rampt., barry of ten, arg. and gu., crowned, or, and holding in his dexter paw a sword, ppr., hilt and pommel, gold.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter XIX:
 * , there were seated astraddle the whole hundred of the baronet's musqueteers, each engaged in plaiting into a queue the hair of the man who sat in front of him.
 * 1) * 1912, Herbert Allen Giles, China and the Manchus, Chapter III — Shun Chih:
 * A large number of loyal officials, rather than shave the front part of the head and wear the Manchu queue, voluntarily shaved the whole head,
 * 1) * 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 176:
 * Caparisoned for a week in purple velvet knee-length pantaloons, a red silk jacket with buckles of shiny brass, and a white goat's-hair wig which culminated behind in a saucy queue, I must have presented an exotic sight [...].
 * 1)  A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which 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).
 * 2) * 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle, Chapter 5,
 * I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue.
 * 1)  A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) * 2005, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, p. 234,
 * Queue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO queues are also known as stacks).

Synonyms

 * line

Derived terms

 * double-ended queue
 * queueing theory
 * queue-jump
 * jump the queue

Verb

 * 1)  To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
 * 2)  To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
 * 3)  To add to a queue data structure.

Synonyms

 * join a queue, join the queue, line up

Derived terms

 * dequeue
 * enqueue
 * queue up

Verbs for Queue
arrange—; braid—; clip—; dress—; tug at—; twist—; weave—; wind—; wrap—; —attracts; —hangs;  —jiggles;  —trails; —suspends; —sways; —swings.

Thesaurus
Indian file, afterpart, afterpiece, array, articulation, bank, braid, brush, bun, buzz, catena, catenation, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chignon, coil, column, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, cordon, cortege, course, crocodile, cue, cycle, descent, dock, drone, echelon, endless belt, endless round, fall in, fall into line, fall into rank, fantail, file, filiation, form a line, gamut, get in formation, get in line, gradation, hum, knot, line, line up, lineage, monotone, nexus, order, pendulum, periodicity, picket, pigtail, plait, plenum, powder train, procession, progression, queue up, range, rank, rattail, recurrence, reticulation, retinue, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, string, stub, succession, swath, tab, tag, tail, tailback, tailpiece, take rank, thread, tier, topknot, trail, trailer, train, twist, wake, windrow

Etymology
From queue:, keu: et al. and  queu:, cueue: et al., from  cauda:.

Noun

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Verb

 * Bulgarian: нареждам (се) на опашка
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 * Hebrew: עמד בתור
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 * Italian: mettere in fila
 * Portuguese: pôr em fila
 * Spanish: poner en fila

Noun

 * 1) tail
 * 2) queue, line
 * 3)  cue
 * 4)  cock, dick

Etymology
cauda:

Synonyms

 * queue, line
 * file d'attente

Derived terms

 * à la queue leu leu