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queue
English
Etymology
From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin c?da, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kju?/
- (General American) enPR: kyo?o, IPA(key): /kju/
- Hyphenation: queue
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: cue, Kew, kyu, Q, que
Noun
queue (plural queues)
- A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). [from 19th c.]
- 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle, Chapter 5,
- I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue.
- 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle, Chapter 5,
- A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
- (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide. [from 20th c.]
- 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).
- 2005, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, p. 234,
- (heraldry) An animal's tail. [from 16th c.]
- 1863, Charles Boutell, A Manual of Heraldry, p. 369:
- 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.
- 1863, Charles Boutell, A Manual of Heraldry, p. 369:
- (now historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. [from 18th c.]
- 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter XIX:
- […] , there were seated astraddle the whole hundred of the baronet's musqueteers, each engaged in plaiting into a queue the hair of the man who sat in front of him.
- 1912, Herbert Allen Giles, China and the Manchus, Chapter III — Shun Chih:
- A large number of loyal officials, rather than shave the front part of the head and wear the Manchu queue, voluntarily shaved the whole head, […]
- 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 176:
- Caparisoned for a week in purple velvet knee-length pantaloons, a red silk jacket with buckles of shiny brass, and a white goat's-hair wig which culminated behind in a saucy queue, I must have presented an exotic sight […]
- 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter XIX:
Synonyms
- (line of people, vehicles, etc): line (US), lineup (Canada)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- cue
- queueing theory
- queue-jump
- jump the queue
Related terms
- caudal
- quevée
Translations
Verb
queue (third-person singular simple present queues, present participle queueing or queuing, simple past and past participle queued)
- (intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
- (intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
- (computing, transitive) To add to a queue data structure.
- To fasten the hair into a queue.
Synonyms
- (place itself at the end of a queue): join a queue, join the queue, line up
Derived terms
- dequeue
- enqueue
- queue up
Translations
See also
- FIFO
- LIFO
- cue
Further reading
- Queue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Queue in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
French
Alternative forms
- queüe (obsolete)
- queuë (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French queu, cueue, from Old French cue, coe, from Vulgar Latin c?da, variant of Latin cauda. Doublet of coda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kø/
- Homophones: qu'eux, queux, queues
- Rhymes: -ø
Noun
queue f (plural queues)
- tail
- queue, line
- Synonym: file d'attente
- (snooker) cue
- (vulgar, slang) cock, dick (penis)
- Synonym: bite
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: Queue
- Dutch: keu
- English: queue, cue
- German: Queue
- Swedish: kö
- Norwegian: kø
- Danish: kø
Further reading
- “queue” in the Dictionnaires d’autrefois
- “queue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
queue f (oblique plural queues, nominative singular queue, nominative plural queues)
- Alternative form of cue
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phalanx
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin phalanx or Ancient Greek ?????? (phálanx, “battle order, array”). Doublet of plank.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fe?.?læ?ks/, /?fæ.?læ?ks/
- Hyphenation: pha?lanx
Noun
phalanx (plural phalanxes or phalanges)
- (historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
- (historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
- (plural phalanxes) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
- (anatomy, plural phalanges) One of the bones of the finger or toe.
Synonyms
- (anatomy, bone of the finger or toe): phalange
Hyponyms
- (bone of the finger): distal phalanx, intermediate phalanx, proximal phalanx
Translations
Latin
Alternative forms
- falanx (later form)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (phálanx). Compare Latin phalanga.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?p?a.lanks/, [?p?ä??ä?ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?fa.lanks/, [?f??l??ks]
Noun
phalanx f (genitive phalangis); third declension
- phalanx, battalion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
- phalanga
Descendants
References
- phalanx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- phalanx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- phalanx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
- phalanx in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- phalanx in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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