Meaning of queue in English

(Definition of queue from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of queue from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of queue from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of queue

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This removes the need for having separate queues for events and input conditions during behavioral model implementation.
The study of such a model provides insights at the queue length (and thus the congestion of a junction) under a heavy load.
But still, and as long as they remain in the queue for paid performances, they are professionals.
The speed of the total process requires a large number of par ts to be queued between stages.
Such a queue can be easily implemented as a circular array of task pointers.
This study was performed to find out about the queue discipline in waiting lists for elective surgery to reveal potential discrepancies in waiting list management.
The queue is used in order to process the states in ascending distance from the starting state.
Customers in queue 1 have priority over customers in queue 2 in the sense that servers are handling customers belonging to queue 1 first.
It is our responsibility as the caller to queue it for visitation, so that the function may assume it safe to return to.
Also, the presence of infection can very rapidly endanger the lives of those waiting faithfully in the queue for their treatment.
Since this is not a desirable behaviour, we will enhance our simple processor with a waiting queue for tasks.
With food rationing at the time of this survey, the difficulties of older people in food queues warranted a separate section in his report.
However, it is essential for our purposes to estimate such variances because they critically affect system behavior, queuing delays, and variances in downstream links.
With increasing task granularity and growing processor counts, the central task queue is likely to become a performance bottleneck.
The authors show that, in general, when waiting in the queue is costly, the equilibrium behavior is not of the threshold type.
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Translations of queue

in Chinese (Traditional)
(人或車排成的)隊,隊伍,行列, 排隊, 排隊(等候)做…,非常想做……
in Chinese (Simplified)
(人或车排成的)队,行列, 排队, 排队(等候)做…,非常想做……
in Spanish
cola, fila, hacer cola…
in Portuguese
fila, ficar na fila, fila [feminine]…
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रांग, तिष्ठत असणे, आंस ठेवणे…
列, 行列, キュー…
kuyruk, sıra, kuyruğa/sıraya girmek…
liste [feminine] de tâches, queue [feminine], file [feminine] d’attente…
cua…
rij, in de rij staan…
ஒரு மக்கள் வரிசை, வழக்கமாக நிற்பது அல்லது கார்களில், ஏதாவது ஒன்றிற்காக காத்திருப்பது…
(खड़े या गाड़ियों में बैठे हुए लोगों की एक) कतार, कतार में खड़ा होना, कुछ करने की बहुत इच्छा होना…
કતાર, કતારબદ્ધ, કંઈક કરવાની ખૂબ ઈચ્છા છે…
kø, stå i kø…
kö, köa, stå i kö…
barisan‘, berbaris…
die Schlange, Schlange stehen…
kø [masculine], stå i kø, kø…
صف, قطار, قطارمیں کھڑا ہونا…
черга, хвіст, стояти в черзі…
очередь…
సాధారణంగా నిలబడి లేదా కార్లలో ఉండి, దేని కోసమైనా వేచి ఉన్న వ్యక్తుల పంక్తి, క్యూ…
رَتْل, طابور…
অপেক্ষারত সারিবদ্ধ মানুষ অথবা যানবাহন, সারিবদ্ধভাবে দাঁড়িয়ে থেকে অপেক্ষা করা, প্রায়ই কিছু কেনার জন্যে…
fronta, stát frontu…
antrian, antri…
คิว, เข้าคิว…
hàng, lối, xếp hàng…
kolejka, stać w kolejce…
줄…
coda, fila, fare la fila/coda…
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