queuen.

Brit.

/kjuː/, U.S.

/kju/

Forms: late Middle English qwew, late Middle English–1500s 1700s– queue, 1700s qu- (Irish English, in compounds), 1700s que, 1800s queu, 1900s– cue (U.S.), 1900s– kyow (Scottish, rare).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French keu, queu, queue.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman keu, keue, kue, kuwe, que, queue, etc., and Middle French queu, quewe, queuue, cueue, keue, keuwe, etc., Middle French, French queue tail (c1100 in Old French as cue , with reference to animals), band of parchment attached to a document, bearing the seal (a1174 as coe ), (of plants, etc.) stalk (c1225), barrel or cask, usually wooden, used to contain liquids (1260), handle (1334), line or sequence of people waiting their turn to proceed or to be attended to (1794) < classical Latin cauda tail (see cauda n.). Compare cue n.³In double queue at sense 1 after Middle French double queuue (1300 in Old French). In queue fourché(e) at sense 3 after Anglo-Norman cowe furché (late 13th cent.). Use in sense 4 is apparently not paralleled in French until later (1762). It is uncertain whether the following, which apparently represents an earlier example of sense 5, is to be interpreted as showing the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1416 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 62 [Forty-five tuns of red wine called] queues [of France].

†1. double queue: a band of parchment attached to a letter, with seals on the free ends. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > attaching of seal > material attaching seal

double queuec1475

labela1513

sealing-thread1591

tag1688

stock1711

c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 154 A letter yevyng of ryght excellent pryncys my Lorde Regaunt of Fraunce, Duke of Bedforde, my Lorde Duke of Burgayne, and my lorde the Duke of Bretayne, selyde with hyr manuelle sygnettys, and enselyd with dowbylle queue of hyr sealys in redde wex.

†2. Perhaps: a line of dancers. Obsolete. rare.

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?a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 40 Qworle in tho qwew, go lyghtly; Qwene I was a ȝong man, so dyd I.

3. Heraldry. The tail of a beast. Chiefly in queue fourché(e): having a forked or double tail; double queued.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > parts of creatures > tail

queue1592

1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 41 Gold ramping Lion queue doth forked hold.

1774 W. Gostling Walk Canterbury 223 (note) The first quarter is, a lion rampant queue forchee gules crowned proper.

1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xiv. 164 The lion of Gueldres is also queue fourchée.

1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 28 A lion with its tail between its legs is said to be coward; when furnished with two tails, queue fourchée.

1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide to Heraldry 201 (Gloss.) Forchee or forchy, forked; normally this occurs as queue forchee, forked tail.

1992 D. H. B. Chesshyre et al. Dict. Brit. Arms I. 173/2 Lion queue fourchy. Demi-lion queue fourchy.

4. A long plait of hair worn hanging down at the back, from the head or from a wig; a pigtail. Now historical or archaic.Recorded earliest attributive, in queue peruke.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits

tracec1380

plight?1387

tressa1400

plexc1450

braid1530

tuck1532

buoy-rope1546

trammels1589

entrammelling1598

border1601

point1604

pleat?1606

trammelets1654

maze1657

brede1696

queue1724

pigtail?1725

tie1725

cue1731

tuck-up1749

tutulus1753

club1786

tail1799

French twist1850

Grecian plait1851

French plait1871

horse's tail1873

Gretchen braid, plait1890

shimada1910

ponytail1916

French braid1937

cane row1939

dreadlocks1960

French pleat1964

Tom Jones1964

corn row1971

dread1984

club-pigtail-

1724 Dublin Gaz. 29 Sept.–3 Oct. (verso single sheet) All Sorts of Perukes, as..Qu-Perukes and Bagg-Wiggs.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 100 The largeness of the doctor's wig arises from the same pride with the smallness of the beau's queue.

1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician I. i. viii. 183 Old cocked-hats, and tied queues, still stalk about the town.

1888 W. R. Carles Life in Corea iii. 40 These boys were all bachelors, and wore their hair in a queue down their backs.

1904 L. Hearn Japan: Attempt at Interpr. xii. 257 All classes excepting the nobility, samurai, Shinto priests, and doctors, shaved the greater part of the head, and wore queues.

1947 R. Benedict Chrysanthemum & Sword iv. 77 Insignia and distinctive dress of caste were outlawed—even queues had to be cut.

1976 ‘D. Fletcher’ Don't whistle ‘Macbeth’ 22 One of her habitual wigs..that..ended in a pert queue at the back.

1992 G. Steinem Revol. from Within v. i. 214 My hair is done up in a queue.

5. A barrel or cask capable of holding approximately one and a half hogsheads (238 litres) of wine or other liquid. Now rare.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > of specific size

kilderkin1390

tierce1531

pin1570

quardeel1681

caroteel1704

queue1739

anker?c1750

eighteener1870

1739 tr. N. Dutot Polit. Refl. upon Finances & Commerce of France ii. 115 I find in the Cabinet..the weight and dimensions..of the Queue of Wine.

1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. vi. 47 The carriage of a queue of wine from Dijon to Dunkirk..costs an hundred livres..but if sent in the bottle, the carriage will be just double.

1851 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines (ed. 3) v. 91 The names applied in various wine districts of France to the casks which they use, differ without reference to the measure; in the department of the Marne, the tonneau is called the queue.

1931 W. E. Mead Eng. Medieval Feast iii. 81 In 1385–6 Jean de Neele declared that his household used in one year between six and seven ‘queues’ of verjuice or between 2,346 and 2,737 litres.

1956 Atlantic June 94/2 In the Champagne it's [sc. the barrel is] called a queue and contains 216 liters.

6. A support for the butt of a lance, attached to the breastplate of a suit of armour. historical.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > lance > rest for lance

fewtera1375

rest1391

queue1830

bucket1833

1830 S. R. Meyrick Engraved Illustr. Antient Arms & Armour I. Pl. viii From the right side of the back-plate [appears] the queue, a straight piece of iron hooked at the end, which, with the aid of the rest holds the lance in its horizontal position without any other support.

1860 J. Hewitt Anc. Armour Suppl. 647 The butt of the lance..is supported by the piece called the queue: this was of iron, and made fast to the body-armour by screws.

1912 Burlington Mag. May 116/2 The thickness of all the lances is especially noticeable, and it might be matter for some speculation as to how they were held, even with lance rest and queue to support them.

1986 B. B. Broughton Dict. Medieval Knighthood & Chivalry 416 An oblong block of iron called a queue was screwed to the right side of the breastplate where it formed a lance rest.

a. Chiefly British. A line or sequence of people, vehicles, etc., waiting their turn to proceed, or to be attended to, esp. in purchasing or receiving something. Frequently with modifying word. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. (Now the dominant sense outside North America: cf. line n.² 19a.)In early use, not fully naturalized and frequently in French context.to jump the queue: see jump v. 10c.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row > queue

queue1837

tail1837

line1930

1796 T. W. Tone Diary 17 June in Writings (2009) II. 204 The petty princes of Italy are, as the French say, ‘en queue pour faire la paix’. It is an excellent metaphor taken from a crowd who stand one behind another in order to be served in their turn, as the poor of Paris, for example, at the bakers.]

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iv. 351 That talent,..of spontaneously standing in queue, distinguishes,..the French People.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Philip II. viii. 177 A half-mile queue of carriages was formed along the street.

1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 120 A long queue, like that outside a Parisian theatre.

1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands xxvi. 298 I joined a queue of three or four persons who were waiting their turn.

1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 64 Paulina had a mind above bread queues and unlit streets.

1958 Listener 20 Nov. 839/3 After the war the railways had to take their place in the queue after housing and housing repairs.

1977 Spare Rib May 19/4 Women in poor areas are always at the end of the queue for anything.

1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) vii. 208 When waiting in a traffic queue, not blocking the access to side roads.

2003 W. Holden Azur like It ix. 140 At the airport, she found herself in the queue directly behind a group of large and loud Hoorays who..were headed for some smart wedding.

2005 W. Wall This is Country 7 He probably thinks I should know the accused because..we socialise in the same dole queues.

b. Computing. A list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion. Originally also: = stack n. 1f (now disused).

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society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > structure > list

list1956

string1956

chain1959

queue1963

linked list1971

1963 F. P. Brooks & K. E. Iverson Automatic Data Processing vi. 310 If a pool is organized as a backward-chained stack, then the component next taken from the pool is the component last added to it. The queue of components in the pool therefore obeys a so-called last-in-first-out, or LIFO discipline.

1970 H. A. Rodgers Dict. Data Processing Terms 86/2 Queue,..an ordered sequence of items waiting to be serviced according to their order.

1988 Lotus Apr. 104/1 The timeout feature tells the network spooler to issue an endspool command if you don't send anything to the print queue from your workstation for x seconds.

2004 Dr. K. Hackers' Tales ix. 178 The timeout for mail in the queue was three days, and this couldn't be altered within the firewall server's configuration.

†8. Music.

a. The tailpiece of a violin or other instrument. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms Queue (Fr.), the tailpiece of a violin or other instrument.

b. The ‘tail’ of a note. Obsolete. rare.

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1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms Queue (Fr.), the tail of a note.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 7).

queue day n.

ΚΠ

1908 Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 3/4 It was queue day at the Franco-British Exhibition yesterday. At 6 o'clock..a line of people a quarter of a mile long extended on either side of the Flip Flap.

1960 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 3 May 25/4 Yesterday was queue day in the courthouse—all day long.

queue discipline n.

ΚΠ

1951 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 13 152 The queue-discipline is the rule or moral code determining the manner in which the customers form up into a queue and the manner in which they behave while waiting.

2004 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Sept. 13 We simply cannot tolerate any breaches of queue discipline.

queue driving n.

ΚΠ

1970 Sunday Tel. 20 Dec. 7/5 Another factor contributing to fast ‘queue’ driving in fog on motorways..is that drivers with their families as passengers tend to drive quickly for fear that a car behind might ram them.

queue form n.

ΚΠ

1902 Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 10/1 From the pens to the steps of the car the intending passengers will go in queue form, as now adopted with so much success at most of the theatres.

queue number n.

ΚΠ

1956 R. Braddon Nancy Wake i. i. 9 Each day they received queue numbers so that they could take up their correct positions next morning.

2005 Observer (Nexis) 14 Aug. 1 All day yesterday, queue numbers were issued to passengers camped out in marquees outside Terminal 4.

queue system n.

ΚΠ

1871 Times 16 Feb. 10/3 To return from St. Denis to Paris the Prussian authorities require you to pass over a different bridge from that on the great high road, and the queue system is rigidly enforced.

1941 New Statesman 27 Dec. 523/2 The queue system is fair to everybody.

2006 News Jrnl. (Wilmington, Delaware) (Nexis) 3 Mar. 8 a The queue system was designed for the benefit of the customers, not as a control by employees.

C2.

queue barging n. = queue-jumping n.

ΚΠ

1967 Times 28 Sept. 7/4 Patients would take a number and then disappear; when they returned, they were accused of queue barging and invariably a fight would ensue.

2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 22 Oct. (ES Mag.) 7 Elle was told by organisers to join the back of the queue on the premise that Sotheby's does not allow queue-barging.

queue theoretic adj. Mathematics of or relating to queuing theory.

ΚΠ

1955 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 229 342 This difficulty has been met in earlier, queue-theoretic, discussions of traffic light behaviour.

1966 S. Beer Decision & Control ix. 178 Some of the earliest queue-theoretic notions were developed around the problem of the doctor's waiting room.

2005 Computers & Operations Res. 32 630 A system consisting of multiprocessors has been studied in the literature via queue theoretic approach.

queue theory n. Mathematics = queueing theory n. at queueing n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1951 Operational Res. Q. 2 55 Statistics of unloading times had been analysed..; and queue theory had been applied to show how changes in the rate of unloading would affect turn-round, etc.

1966 S. Beer Decision & Control ix. 176 This thoroughly basic situation is so important in operational research as applied to dynamic systems that a whole branch of mathematical statistics, known as queue theory, has been developed round it.

2004 Reliability Engin. & Syst. Safety 84 188/1 Chakravarty studied a similar problem from standpoint of queue theory, considering the queue with single repair-facility service.

queue voting n. East African an electoral system in which voters express their preference by standing behind the candidate or a photograph of the candidate of their choice, and the candidate with the longest queue is declared the winner.Queue voting is now rare and is often regarded as contentious, since it undermines the principle of the secret ballot.

ΚΠ

1986 New Afr. Nov. 20/3 The bishop further castigated fellow Luos for leading attacks on churchmen for their stand against the queue-voting.

2018 Sunday Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 1 July His time as MP..was rudely cut short..when he was defeated during the Kanu nominations which adopted the controversial queue voting.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

queuev.

Brit.

/kjuː/, U.S.

/kju/

Inflections: Present participle queueing, queuing;

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: queue n.

Etymology: < queue n.

1. transitive. To tie up (the hair) in a queue or pigtail; †to tie up the hair of (a person) in this way (obsolete). Now rare.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > braid

tress?a1366

browd1386

broidc1405

braid1530

border1585

entrammel1598

snake1653

queue1754

cue1774

club1779

trace1832

weave1884

1754 W. Faucitt tr. Regulations Prussian Infantry xii. vii. 418 The hair-bands shall be queued close to the head,..and must reach down to the waist.

1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal lxvi They came not out..in the morning till their hair was queued.

1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. iii. 38 His hair was clubbed, queued, and powdered.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. viii. 474 While they are combing and queuing him.

1885 Cent. Mag. 29 891/2 Some of them clubbed and some of them queued their hair.

1939 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 16 Nov. 7/8 Every man appeared at dress parade..with his hair neatly queued and whitened.

a. intransitive. To move in to a place, from a queue of people. rare.

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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > move in a line

stringa1824

tail1859

trail1863

queue1893

1893 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 6/3 You queue in, hand your card to somebody, pass on.

1998 R. Newman Manners 90 Keep your face out the closed-circuit when we're queuing in.

b. intransitive. To stand in a queue; to form a queue; to take one's place at the end of a queue. Also figurative. Frequently with up.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > in a queue

to stand in line1851

queue1920

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > form (a) row(s) or line(s [verb (intransitive)] > form a queue

to stand in line1851

queue1920

1920 Times 7 Oct. 5/4 (advt.) Taxi-Cabs queued up for their supplies of ‘Shell.’

1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iv. 71 They hung their hats and coats in the annexe cloakroom, and queued up for the mirror.

1949 E. Taylor Wreath of Roses i. 11 They have to do all the wretched jobs not even a paid servant will do—queue for tomatoes, etc.

1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xxiii. 128 Do you think that the whole of Germany was queueing up to fight Bolshevism?

1978 D. Francis Trial Run i. 17 We are damned lucky to have been given the few weeks' option. They've got other buyers practically queueing for it.

1991 Which? Dec. 699/1 Ticket gates are a lot faster than queuing up to show a member of staff your ticket.

2002 New Internationalist May 6/1 Voting was relatively orderly on the days of polling except for in the urban areas where people queued for 36 hours to vote.

c. transitive. To arrange (people or things) in or as in a queue or queues; (Computing) to place (data, tasks, etc.) in a queue. Also with up.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > arrange in (a) row(s) or line(s [verb (transitive)] > form into a queue

queue1928

1928 Daily Express 8 Oct. 1/1 The foot and mounted police..had queued the concourse into twisting lines of people.

1973 P. C. Sanderson Interactive Computing in BASIC ii. 23 Multiplexors..checking for transmission errors, and storing and queuing the messages received.

1992 PC World Apr. 65/1 (advt.) Multiple [printer] users can send data simultaneously since the memory will buffer and queue jobs on a first-in-first-out basis.

2000 Art Rev. Dec.–Jan. 35/3 The sender in America gets an email telling them that the message has been queued.

2004 N. Barham Dis/Connected 200 There's like lines of people either side, like all queued up either side of the walkway.

3. transitive. To follow closely (a person's path). rare.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > follow with evil intent

suea1350

queue1906

1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd v. i. 188 Perhaps within this very house and hour, Under an innocent mask of Love or Hope, Some enemy queues my ways to coffin me.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	queue
释义	queuen. Brit. /kjuː/, U.S. /kju/ Forms: late Middle English qwew, late Middle English–1500s 1700s– queue, 1700s qu- (Irish English, in compounds), 1700s que, 1800s queu, 1900s– cue (U.S.), 1900s– kyow (Scottish, rare). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French keu, queu, queue. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman keu, keue, kue, kuwe, que, queue, etc., and Middle French queu, quewe, queuue, cueue, keue, keuwe, etc., Middle French, French queue tail (c1100 in Old French as cue , with reference to animals), band of parchment attached to a document, bearing the seal (a1174 as coe ), (of plants, etc.) stalk (c1225), barrel or cask, usually wooden, used to contain liquids (1260), handle (1334), line or sequence of people waiting their turn to proceed or to be attended to (1794) < classical Latin cauda tail (see cauda n.). Compare cue n.³In double queue at sense 1 after Middle French double queuue (1300 in Old French). In queue fourché(e) at sense 3 after Anglo-Norman cowe furché (late 13th cent.). Use in sense 4 is apparently not paralleled in French until later (1762). It is uncertain whether the following, which apparently represents an earlier example of sense 5, is to be interpreted as showing the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1416 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 62 [Forty-five tuns of red wine called] queues [of France]. †1. double queue: a band of parchment attached to a letter, with seals on the free ends. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > attaching of seal > material attaching seal double queuec1475 labela1513 sealing-thread1591 tag1688 stock1711 c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 154 A letter yevyng of ryght excellent pryncys my Lorde Regaunt of Fraunce, Duke of Bedforde, my Lorde Duke of Burgayne, and my lorde the Duke of Bretayne, selyde with hyr manuelle sygnettys, and enselyd with dowbylle queue of hyr sealys in redde wex. †2. Perhaps: a line of dancers. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ ?a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 40 Qworle in tho qwew, go lyghtly; Qwene I was a ȝong man, so dyd I. 3. Heraldry. The tail of a beast. Chiefly in queue fourché(e): having a forked or double tail; double queued. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > parts of creatures > tail queue1592 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 41 Gold ramping Lion queue doth forked hold. 1774 W. Gostling Walk Canterbury 223 (note) The first quarter is, a lion rampant queue forchee gules crowned proper. 1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xiv. 164 The lion of Gueldres is also queue fourchée. 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 28 A lion with its tail between its legs is said to be coward; when furnished with two tails, queue fourchée. 1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide to Heraldry 201 (Gloss.) Forchee or forchy, forked; normally this occurs as queue forchee, forked tail. 1992 D. H. B. Chesshyre et al. Dict. Brit. Arms I. 173/2 Lion queue fourchy. Demi-lion queue fourchy. 4. A long plait of hair worn hanging down at the back, from the head or from a wig; a pigtail. Now historical or archaic.Recorded earliest attributive, in queue peruke. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits tracec1380 plight?1387 tressa1400 plexc1450 braid1530 tuck1532 buoy-rope1546 trammels1589 entrammelling1598 border1601 point1604 pleat?1606 trammelets1654 maze1657 brede1696 queue1724 pigtail?1725 tie1725 cue1731 tuck-up1749 tutulus1753 club1786 tail1799 French twist1850 Grecian plait1851 French plait1871 horse's tail1873 Gretchen braid, plait1890 shimada1910 ponytail1916 French braid1937 cane row1939 dreadlocks1960 French pleat1964 Tom Jones1964 corn row1971 dread1984 club-pigtail- 1724 Dublin Gaz. 29 Sept.–3 Oct. (verso single sheet) All Sorts of Perukes, as..Qu-Perukes and Bagg-Wiggs. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 100 The largeness of the doctor's wig arises from the same pride with the smallness of the beau's queue. 1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician I. i. viii. 183 Old cocked-hats, and tied queues, still stalk about the town. 1888 W. R. Carles Life in Corea iii. 40 These boys were all bachelors, and wore their hair in a queue down their backs. 1904 L. Hearn Japan: Attempt at Interpr. xii. 257 All classes excepting the nobility, samurai, Shinto priests, and doctors, shaved the greater part of the head, and wore queues. 1947 R. Benedict Chrysanthemum & Sword iv. 77 Insignia and distinctive dress of caste were outlawed—even queues had to be cut. 1976 ‘D. Fletcher’ Don't whistle ‘Macbeth’ 22 One of her habitual wigs..that..ended in a pert queue at the back. 1992 G. Steinem Revol. from Within v. i. 214 My hair is done up in a queue. 5. A barrel or cask capable of holding approximately one and a half hogsheads (238 litres) of wine or other liquid. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > of specific size kilderkin1390 tierce1531 pin1570 quardeel1681 caroteel1704 queue1739 anker?c1750 eighteener1870 1739 tr. N. Dutot Polit. Refl. upon Finances & Commerce of France ii. 115 I find in the Cabinet..the weight and dimensions..of the Queue of Wine. 1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. vi. 47 The carriage of a queue of wine from Dijon to Dunkirk..costs an hundred livres..but if sent in the bottle, the carriage will be just double. 1851 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines (ed. 3) v. 91 The names applied in various wine districts of France to the casks which they use, differ without reference to the measure; in the department of the Marne, the tonneau is called the queue. 1931 W. E. Mead Eng. Medieval Feast iii. 81 In 1385–6 Jean de Neele declared that his household used in one year between six and seven ‘queues’ of verjuice or between 2,346 and 2,737 litres. 1956 Atlantic June 94/2 In the Champagne it's [sc. the barrel is] called a queue and contains 216 liters. 6. A support for the butt of a lance, attached to the breastplate of a suit of armour. historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > lance > rest for lance fewtera1375 rest1391 queue1830 bucket1833 1830 S. R. Meyrick Engraved Illustr. Antient Arms & Armour I. Pl. viii From the right side of the back-plate [appears] the queue, a straight piece of iron hooked at the end, which, with the aid of the rest holds the lance in its horizontal position without any other support. 1860 J. Hewitt Anc. Armour Suppl. 647 The butt of the lance..is supported by the piece called the queue: this was of iron, and made fast to the body-armour by screws. 1912 Burlington Mag. May 116/2 The thickness of all the lances is especially noticeable, and it might be matter for some speculation as to how they were held, even with lance rest and queue to support them. 1986 B. B. Broughton Dict. Medieval Knighthood & Chivalry 416 An oblong block of iron called a queue was screwed to the right side of the breastplate where it formed a lance rest. 7. a. Chiefly British. A line or sequence of people, vehicles, etc., waiting their turn to proceed, or to be attended to, esp. in purchasing or receiving something. Frequently with modifying word. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. (Now the dominant sense outside North America: cf. line n.² 19a.)In early use, not fully naturalized and frequently in French context.to jump the queue: see jump v. 10c. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row > queue queue1837 tail1837 line1930 1796 T. W. Tone Diary 17 June in Writings (2009) II. 204 The petty princes of Italy are, as the French say, ‘en queue pour faire la paix’. It is an excellent metaphor taken from a crowd who stand one behind another in order to be served in their turn, as the poor of Paris, for example, at the bakers.] 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iv. 351 That talent,..of spontaneously standing in queue, distinguishes,..the French People. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Philip II. viii. 177 A half-mile queue of carriages was formed along the street. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 120 A long queue, like that outside a Parisian theatre. 1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands xxvi. 298 I joined a queue of three or four persons who were waiting their turn. 1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 64 Paulina had a mind above bread queues and unlit streets. 1958 Listener 20 Nov. 839/3 After the war the railways had to take their place in the queue after housing and housing repairs. 1977 Spare Rib May 19/4 Women in poor areas are always at the end of the queue for anything. 1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) vii. 208 When waiting in a traffic queue, not blocking the access to side roads. 2003 W. Holden Azur like It ix. 140 At the airport, she found herself in the queue directly behind a group of large and loud Hoorays who..were headed for some smart wedding. 2005 W. Wall This is Country 7 He probably thinks I should know the accused because..we socialise in the same dole queues. b. Computing. A list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion. Originally also: = stack n. 1f (now disused). ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > structure > list list1956 string1956 chain1959 queue1963 linked list1971 1963 F. P. Brooks & K. E. Iverson Automatic Data Processing vi. 310 If a pool is organized as a backward-chained stack, then the component next taken from the pool is the component last added to it. The queue of components in the pool therefore obeys a so-called last-in-first-out, or LIFO discipline. 1970 H. A. Rodgers Dict. Data Processing Terms 86/2 Queue,..an ordered sequence of items waiting to be serviced according to their order. 1988 Lotus Apr. 104/1 The timeout feature tells the network spooler to issue an endspool command if you don't send anything to the print queue from your workstation for x seconds. 2004 Dr. K. Hackers' Tales ix. 178 The timeout for mail in the queue was three days, and this couldn't be altered within the firewall server's configuration. †8. Music. a. The tailpiece of a violin or other instrument. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms Queue (Fr.), the tailpiece of a violin or other instrument. b. The ‘tail’ of a note. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms Queue (Fr.), the tail of a note. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 7). queue day n. ΚΠ 1908 Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 3/4 It was queue day at the Franco-British Exhibition yesterday. At 6 o'clock..a line of people a quarter of a mile long extended on either side of the Flip Flap. 1960 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 3 May 25/4 Yesterday was queue day in the courthouse—all day long. queue discipline n. ΚΠ 1951 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 13 152 The queue-discipline is the rule or moral code determining the manner in which the customers form up into a queue and the manner in which they behave while waiting. 2004 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Sept. 13 We simply cannot tolerate any breaches of queue discipline. queue driving n. ΚΠ 1970 Sunday Tel. 20 Dec. 7/5 Another factor contributing to fast ‘queue’ driving in fog on motorways..is that drivers with their families as passengers tend to drive quickly for fear that a car behind might ram them. queue form n. ΚΠ 1902 Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 10/1 From the pens to the steps of the car the intending passengers will go in queue form, as now adopted with so much success at most of the theatres. queue number n. ΚΠ 1956 R. Braddon Nancy Wake i. i. 9 Each day they received queue numbers so that they could take up their correct positions next morning. 2005 Observer (Nexis) 14 Aug. 1 All day yesterday, queue numbers were issued to passengers camped out in marquees outside Terminal 4. queue system n. ΚΠ 1871 Times 16 Feb. 10/3 To return from St. Denis to Paris the Prussian authorities require you to pass over a different bridge from that on the great high road, and the queue system is rigidly enforced. 1941 New Statesman 27 Dec. 523/2 The queue system is fair to everybody. 2006 News Jrnl. (Wilmington, Delaware) (Nexis) 3 Mar. 8 a The queue system was designed for the benefit of the customers, not as a control by employees. C2. queue barging n. = queue-jumping n. ΚΠ 1967 Times 28 Sept. 7/4 Patients would take a number and then disappear; when they returned, they were accused of queue barging and invariably a fight would ensue. 2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 22 Oct. (ES Mag.) 7 Elle was told by organisers to join the back of the queue on the premise that Sotheby's does not allow queue-barging. queue theoretic adj. Mathematics of or relating to queuing theory. ΚΠ 1955 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 229 342 This difficulty has been met in earlier, queue-theoretic, discussions of traffic light behaviour. 1966 S. Beer Decision & Control ix. 178 Some of the earliest queue-theoretic notions were developed around the problem of the doctor's waiting room. 2005 Computers & Operations Res. 32 630 A system consisting of multiprocessors has been studied in the literature via queue theoretic approach. queue theory n. Mathematics = queueing theory n. at queueing n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1951 Operational Res. Q. 2 55 Statistics of unloading times had been analysed..; and queue theory had been applied to show how changes in the rate of unloading would affect turn-round, etc. 1966 S. Beer Decision & Control ix. 176 This thoroughly basic situation is so important in operational research as applied to dynamic systems that a whole branch of mathematical statistics, known as queue theory, has been developed round it. 2004 Reliability Engin. & Syst. Safety 84 188/1 Chakravarty studied a similar problem from standpoint of queue theory, considering the queue with single repair-facility service. queue voting n. East African an electoral system in which voters express their preference by standing behind the candidate or a photograph of the candidate of their choice, and the candidate with the longest queue is declared the winner.Queue voting is now rare and is often regarded as contentious, since it undermines the principle of the secret ballot. ΚΠ 1986 New Afr. Nov. 20/3 The bishop further castigated fellow Luos for leading attacks on churchmen for their stand against the queue-voting. 2018 Sunday Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 1 July His time as MP..was rudely cut short..when he was defeated during the Kanu nominations which adopted the controversial queue voting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). queuev. Brit. /kjuː/, U.S. /kju/ Inflections: Present participle queueing, queuing; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: queue n. Etymology: < queue n. 1. transitive. To tie up (the hair) in a queue or pigtail; †to tie up the hair of (a person) in this way (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > braid tress?a1366 browd1386 broidc1405 braid1530 border1585 entrammel1598 snake1653 queue1754 cue1774 club1779 trace1832 weave1884 1754 W. Faucitt tr. Regulations Prussian Infantry xii. vii. 418 The hair-bands shall be queued close to the head,..and must reach down to the waist. 1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal lxvi They came not out..in the morning till their hair was queued. 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. iii. 38 His hair was clubbed, queued, and powdered. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. viii. 474 While they are combing and queuing him. 1885 Cent. Mag. 29 891/2 Some of them clubbed and some of them queued their hair. 1939 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 16 Nov. 7/8 Every man appeared at dress parade..with his hair neatly queued and whitened. 2. a. intransitive. To move in to a place, from a queue of people. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > move in a line stringa1824 tail1859 trail1863 queue1893 1893 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 6/3 You queue in, hand your card to somebody, pass on. 1998 R. Newman Manners 90 Keep your face out the closed-circuit when we're queuing in. b. intransitive. To stand in a queue; to form a queue; to take one's place at the end of a queue. Also figurative. Frequently with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > in a queue to stand in line1851 queue1920 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > form (a) row(s) or line(s [verb (intransitive)] > form a queue to stand in line1851 queue1920 1920 Times 7 Oct. 5/4 (advt.) Taxi-Cabs queued up for their supplies of ‘Shell.’ 1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iv. 71 They hung their hats and coats in the annexe cloakroom, and queued up for the mirror. 1949 E. Taylor Wreath of Roses i. 11 They have to do all the wretched jobs not even a paid servant will do—queue for tomatoes, etc. 1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xxiii. 128 Do you think that the whole of Germany was queueing up to fight Bolshevism? 1978 D. Francis Trial Run i. 17 We are damned lucky to have been given the few weeks' option. They've got other buyers practically queueing for it. 1991 Which? Dec. 699/1 Ticket gates are a lot faster than queuing up to show a member of staff your ticket. 2002 New Internationalist May 6/1 Voting was relatively orderly on the days of polling except for in the urban areas where people queued for 36 hours to vote. c. transitive. To arrange (people or things) in or as in a queue or queues; (Computing) to place (data, tasks, etc.) in a queue. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > arrange in (a) row(s) or line(s [verb (transitive)] > form into a queue queue1928 1928 Daily Express 8 Oct. 1/1 The foot and mounted police..had queued the concourse into twisting lines of people. 1973 P. C. Sanderson Interactive Computing in BASIC ii. 23 Multiplexors..checking for transmission errors, and storing and queuing the messages received. 1992 PC World Apr. 65/1 (advt.) Multiple [printer] users can send data simultaneously since the memory will buffer and queue jobs on a first-in-first-out basis. 2000 Art Rev. Dec.–Jan. 35/3 The sender in America gets an email telling them that the message has been queued. 2004 N. Barham Dis/Connected 200 There's like lines of people either side, like all queued up either side of the walkway. 3. transitive. To follow closely (a person's path). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > follow with evil intent suea1350 queue1906 1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd v. i. 188 Perhaps within this very house and hour, Under an innocent mask of Love or Hope, Some enemy queues my ways to coffin me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1475v.1754
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