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How to pronounce queue in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms waiting line
Type of line
Has types gas line, unemployment line, ticket line, reception line, bread line, breadline, chow line, checkout line
Type Words
Synonyms line up, queue up
Type of stand, stand up
Type Words
Type of plait, braid, twist, tress
Type Words
Type of list, listing
Has types push-down queue

Examples of queue

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Armed with three separate bills, the buyer would then join another queue to pay.
From the telegraph.co.uk
We find out what made people queue from American Apparel's flea market from 7am.
From the guardian.co.uk
A serious dog bite or an animal left in a hot car jumps to the top of the queue.
From the sacbee.com
Over the past year, 3,900 people in Northern Ireland have joined the dole queue.
From the bbc.co.uk
Was in the queue for chips at Ocean Billy's by the ground when I heard the news.
From the guardian.co.uk
Shoppers look at an iPad as they queue outside an Apple store in central London.
From the guardian.co.uk
The queue of buyers was entirely composed of spikey-haired, mobile-texting kids.
From the guardian.co.uk
They know that disabled claimants are probably last in the queue to be employed.
From the guardian.co.uk
Have not moved into the Vivace yet but that is next up in the coffee bean queue.
From the gothamgal.com
More examples
  • A line of people or vehicles waiting for something
  • Line up: form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store"
  • (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
  • A braid of hair at the back of the head
  • In computer science, a queue (/u02C8kjuu02D0/ KYEW) is a particular kind of abstract data type or collection in which the entities in the collection are kept in order and the principal (or only) operations on the collection are the addition of entities to the rear terminal position, known as enqueue, and removal of entities from the front terminal position, known as dequeue...
  • The queue or cue is a hairstyle in which the hair is worn long and gathered up into a ponytail. It was worn traditionally by certain Native American groups and the Manchu of Manchuria.
  • Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or s. The theory enables mathematical analysis of several related processes, including arriving at the (back of the) queue, waiting in the queue (essentially a storage process), and being served at the front of the queue. ...
  • In computer science, spooling refers to a process of transferring data by placing it in a temporary working area where another program may access it for processing at a later point in time. ...
  • The Queue is a professional service for authors, literary agents and publishers, utilized in the book publishing industry.