[kjuː], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed

- a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion

- a plait of hair worn at the back


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue. queue dates from the late 18th century

[kjuː], (Verb)

Definitions:
- take one's place in a queue
(e.g: in the war they had queued for food)

- arrange in a queue
(e.g: input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue. queue dates from the late 18th century