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# queue

«queue» in Mova's school dictionary: **a line of people waiting their turn** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (queue, queues); verb (queue, queues, queued, queuing/queueing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A queue is a line of people waiting their turn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#m1)

2) To queue is to wait in a line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#m2)

3) A queue can also be a list of things waiting, like songs or print jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

the same as a line: people joining add, people leaving subtract; places are counted from the front; phrases: «in a queue», «queue up», «jump the queue» (push in, unfair)

### examples

- There are twenty-nine children in a queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#x1)
- Tom is 8th in the queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#x2)
- 5 more people join the queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#x3)
- We queued for an hour to see the dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#x4)
- Please queue up quietly for lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#x5)
- It is rude to jump the queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#x6)
- The queue for the ice cream van was very long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#x7)
- Three songs are in the queue to play next. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/#x8)

### note

Read it as a line. People joining add to the queue, people leaving subtract. Spelling: queue (the letters «ueue» are silent; it sounds like the letter Q). Mostly British; Americans say «line».

### In the corpora

- [A waiting list is a queue for a non-urgent operation, and in the NHS the wait can be months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/11/)
- [You join the end of a queue and wait your turn, because the people at the front waited longest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/5/)
- [In a queue you keep your hands to yourself and do not push, because pushing can make people fall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/6/)
- [In the UK people value queuing highly and get upset about queue-jumping.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/9/)
- [Pushing in queues causes falls, spills and burns, especially near stairs, doors and hot food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «queue» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queue/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.