queue : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: queue	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for queue
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
queue n a line of people or vehicles waiting for something [syn: queue, waiting line] (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted a braid of hair at the back of the head v form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store" Synonym(s): line up, queue up, queue
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queue \Queue\, n. [F. See {Cue}.] (a) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail. (b) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queue \Queue\, v. t. To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
queue A {first-in first-out} data structure used to sequence multiple demands for a resource such as a {printer}, {processor} or communications channel. Objects are added to the tail of the queue and taken off the head. A typical use of queues in an {operating system} involves a user command which places something on a queue, e.g. a file on a printer queue or a job on a job queue, and a {background} process or "{demon}" which takes things off and processes them (e.g. prints or executes them). Another common use is to pass data between an {interrupt handler} and a user process. (1995-05-11)