queue Definition

queue
noun

(Brit)
1. A line or file of people or vehicles, etc, especially ones that are waiting for something. N Amer equivalent line.
2. computing.
A list of items, eg programs or data, held in a computer system in the order in which they are to be processed, the items that arrive earliest being processed first and subsequent ones placed at the end of the list.
3. A pigtail.

verb, intr queued, queuing

1a. To form a queue;

Form: queue up (also)
1b. To stand or wait in a queue.

Form: queue up (also)
2. computing.
To line up tasks for a computer to process.

Etymology: 19c as noun 3; 16c, meaning ‘a tail': French.