queued

[ kyood ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

waiting in a line:
The motorcycle zipped by, overtaking the queued cars and cutting in front of all of them.
Computers. assigned to or arranged in a list of items waiting for action:
The service has since been restored and all queued emails have been delivered.
The queued operations may be rearranged and optimized before execution.

Origin of queued¹

When Madame Tussauds unveiled their new waxwork of Kate, people queued up for a chance to feel “her” hair.

They queued at roadside snack stands for rations of peanuts, a holiday tradition.

Most recently, Venezuelans queued for hours in search of wheat flour.

Beneath the sign, young men stood with machine guns slung over their shoulders, while female residents queued to see Dr. Sheikh.

By two in the afternoon, the customers were queued up down the block.

In a long-queued, porcelain Chinese mandarin he distinctly recognised a quaint quatrain in one of Clarke's most marvellous poems.

Double-queued: two tails, as No. 181, which is a lion rampant double-queued.

That some of them clubbed and some of them queued their hair, I have already remarked.

She then went to a trunk and got a ribbon and queued my hair very nicely.

The white hair is still politely queued, and the close-shaven cheeks glisten with the neat polish of the razor's edge; but, alas!

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