queue
• noun 1 a line of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed. 2 Computing a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order. • verb (queues, queued, queuing or queueing) wait in a queue. — ORIGIN originally as a heraldic term denoting an animal’s tail, later a long plait: from French, from Latin cauda ‘tail’; compare with CUE2.
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