home
Unscramble Words
queued
We have found lemma(root) word of queued : queue.
Definitions
[kjuː], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed
- a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion
- a plait of hair worn at the back
Phrases:
Origin
:
late 16th century (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue. queue dates from the late 18th century
[kjuː], (Verb)
Definitions:
- take one's place in a queue
(e.g: in the war they had queued for food)
- arrange in a queue
(e.g: input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system)
Phrases:
Origin
:
late 16th century (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue. queue dates from the late 18th century
Click here to see the free dictionary definition for queued
definition by Oxford Dictionaries