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queue

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"Line of people"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kjuː/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eequuStarts with QEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. form a queue, form a line, stand in line

Word origin

From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda and cola.

Used in a sentence

  • I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue.
  • 2005, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, p. 234, Queue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO queues are also known as stacks).
  • HESSE: Az., a lion, queue fourchée, rampt., barry of ten, arg. and gu., crowned, or, and holding in his dexter paw a sword, ppr., hilt and pommel, gold.

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