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queue
[kyoo] 
noun, verb, queued, queu⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a braid of hair worn hanging down behind. |
| 2. | a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn. |
| 3. | Computers. a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action. |
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
| 4. | to form in a line while waiting (often fol. by up). |
| 5. | Computers. to arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc.) into a queue. |
Origin:
1585–95; < MF < L cauda, cōda tail
1585–95; < MF < L cauda, cōda tail
Related forms:
queuer, noun
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| queue (kyōō) n.
To get in line: queue up at the box office. [French, from Old French cue, tail, from Latin cauda, cōda.] Word History: When the British stand in queues (as they have been doing at least since 1837, when this meaning of the word is first recorded in English), they may not realize they form a tail. The French word queue from which the English word is borrowed is a descendant of Latin cōda, meaning "tail." French queue appeared in 1748 in English, referring to a plait of hair hanging down the back of the neck. By 1802 wearing a queue was a regulation in the British army, but by the mid-19th century queues had disappeared along with cocked hats. Latin cōda is also the source of Italian coda, which was adopted into English as a musical term (like so many other English musical terms that come from Italian). A coda is thus literally the "tail end" of a movement or composition. |
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Queue
Queue\, n. [F. See Cue.] (a) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail. (b) A line of persons waiting anywhere.Queue
Queue\, v. t. To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
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Language Translation for : queue
Spanish:
fila,
German:
die Schlange,
Japanese:
列
queue
15c., "tail of a beast" (heraldic term), from Fr. queue "a tail," from O.Fr. cue "tail," from L. coda (dialectal variant of cauda) "tail," of unknown origin. The M.E. metaphoric extension to "line of dancers" led to extended sense of "line of people, etc." (1837). Also used 18c. in sense of "braid of hair" (first attested 1748). The verb meaning "to stand in a line" is recorded from 1927 (implied in queuing). Churchill is said to have coined Queuetopia (1950), to describe Britain under Labour or Socialist rule.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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queue programming
A first-in first-out data structure used to sequence objects. Objects are added to the tail of the queue ("enqueued") and taken off the head ("dequeued").
For example, an operating system might use a queue to serialise concurrent demands for a resource such as a printer, processor or communications channel. Users might place files on a print queue and a background process or "demon" would take them off and print them. Another common use is to pass data between an interrupt handler and a user process.
(2007-05-18)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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