queue
verb/kjuː/
/kjuː/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they queue | /kjuː/ /kjuː/ |
| he / she / it queues | /kjuːz/ /kjuːz/ |
| past simple queued | /kjuːd/ /kjuːd/ |
| past participle queued | /kjuːd/ /kjuːd/ |
| -ing form queuing | /ˈkjuːɪŋ/ /ˈkjuːɪŋ/ |
| -ing form queueing | /ˈkjuːɪŋ/ /ˈkjuːɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (British English) to wait in a line of people, vehicles, etc. in order to do something, get something or go somewhere
- queue (up) People queued up outside.
- Hundreds of voters queued patiently.
- queue (up) for something Queue here for taxis.
- We had to queue up for an hour for the tickets.
- You have to queue to get in at weekends.
Homophones cue | queuecue queueTopics Shoppingb1/kjuː//kjuː/- cue noun
- I took this as my cue to leave.
- queue noun
- There was a long queue at the coffee shop.
- queue verb
- I had to queue for ages before it was my turn.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- patiently
- up
- have to
- for
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- [transitive, intransitive] queue (something) (computing) to add tasks to other tasks so that they are ready to be done in order; to come together to be done in order
- The system queues the jobs before they are processed.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue ‘long stick used for playing billiards, pool and snooker’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent.
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