queue
Noun
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is a type of: line - a formation of people or things one behind anothersubtypes:
- bread line, breadline - a queue of people waiting for free food
- checkout line - a queue of people waiting to pay for purchases
- chow line - a queue of people waiting for food to be served (especially at a military camp)
- gas line - a queue of vehicles waiting to purchase gasoline
- reception line - a line of people (hosts and guests of honor) who welcome the guests at a reception party
- ticket line - a queue of people waiting to buy tickets
- unemployment line - a queue of people waiting for employment
same as: waiting line -
referred to in: informatics, information processing, information science, ip - the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded informationsubtypes: push-down queue - a queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO)
Verb
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entail: wait - stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
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