English Dictionary

queue

IPA（発音記号）

/kjuː/

名詞

イギリス英語 北米英語 稀用 歴史的

(Britain, less common in North America) 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).

日本語の意味

待ち行列（人や車両などが順番に並んで待機する状態）

We stood in a queue outside the theater for over an hour.

私たちは劇場の外で1時間以上列に並んでいました。

意味（1）

(Britain, less common in North America) 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).

I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue.

意味（2）

A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

意味（3）

(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.

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).

意味（4）

(heraldry) An animal's tail.

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.

意味（5）

(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.

[…], 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.

queues （ plural ）