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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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range
English
Etymology
From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?nd?/
- Rhymes: -e?nd?
Noun
range (plural ranges)
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- Selection, array.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- Synonyms: base, training area, training ground
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- Synonyms: distance, radius
- Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- Antonym: domain
- (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- Synonym: compass
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
- He may take a range all the world over.
- , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
Hyponyms
Holonyms
- (values a function can obtain): codomain
Coordinate terms
- (firing range): shooting gallery
- (radius): azimuth, elevation, inclination
- (cooking stove): oven
Derived terms
- open the range
- very-long-range
Translations
Descendants
- Japanese: ??? (?renji)
- Korean: ??? (reinji)
Verb
range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To rove over or through.
- to range the fields
- 1713, John Gay, Rural Sports
- Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- (transitive) To classify.
- to range plants and animals in genera and species
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- The front of a house ranges with the street.
- 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
- (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
- (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To separate into parts; to sift.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- 2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, page 250, ?ISBN
- Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.
- 2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, page 250, ?ISBN
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:range.
Translations
Further reading
- range in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- range in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- range at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Agner, Negar, Regan, anger, areng, grane, regna, renga
Estonian
Etymology
Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.
Adjective
range (genitive range, partitive ranget)
- strict
Declension
French
Verb
range
- first-person singular present indicative of ranger
- third-person singular present indicative of ranger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
- second-person singular imperative of ranger
Anagrams
- nager, régna
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the adjective rang and vrang.
Noun
range f (definite singular ranga, indefinite plural ranger, definite plural rangene)
- the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out
- Antonym: rette
- the trachea, due to it being the wrong pipe, as opposed to the oesophagus, when eating
Verb
range (present tense rangar, past tense ranga, past participle ranga, passive infinitive rangast, present participle rangande, imperative rang)
- (transitive) to turn inside-out (e.g. a piece of clothing)
Alternative forms
- ranga (a-infinitive)
Derived terms
- range seg inn på ein
Adjective
range
- definite singular of rang
- plural of rang
References
- “range” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- ganer, garen, genar, grena, ragen, ragne, regna, renga
Portuguese
Verb
range
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ranger
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ranger
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