Queue
[kjuː] or [kju]
Definition
(noun.) a braid of hair at the back of the head.
(noun.) (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted.
(noun.) a line of people or vehicles waiting for something.
Checker: Wyatt--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
(n.) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
(v. t.) To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
Typist: Rosanna
Definition
n. a pendent braid of hair at the back of the head a pigtail: a file of persons waiting in the order of arrival: a tailpiece as of a violin: (her.) the tail of a beast.—v.t. to tie or fasten in a queue or pigtail.
Inputed by Dennis
Unserious Contents or Definition
The only Mongolian line connecting America and China.
Checker: Otis
Examples
- Maternity must forth to the streets, to the herb-makers and bakers'-queues; meets there with hunger-stricken Maternity, sympathetic, exasperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But, instead of bakers'-queues, why not to Aristocrats' palaces, the root of the matter? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Nancy