queue
First come, first-served
A queue is a line of people or things waiting in order: Join the queue at the back.
More common in British than American English, where line predominates.
In computing, a queue is a data structure where items are processed in the order they arrive—first in, first out.
The verb means to form or join such a line: We queued for tickets, or to add items to a waiting list: The songs are queued up to play.
Continuous mark or queue
- waitDelay until later
- turnRotational movement
- patienceCalm during delays
- anticipationState of awaiting something
standing · shuffling · snaking · winding · forming · joining · jumping · cutting
Earliest in, earliest out
- enqueueAdd to waiting line
- dequeueRemove from queue front
- bufferProtective intermediate space
- stackItems piled vertically
array · node · pointer · overflow · underflow · front · rear · push
Accumulated unfinished work
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
- playlistArranged media collection
- pendingAwaiting resolution or decision
- processingSystematic operation on data
batch · stream · spool · inbox · docket · caseload · workload · stack-up
Priority by arrival order
- sequentialOccurring in succession
- priorityStatus of greater importance
- numberedAssigned figures for order
- turn-takingAlternating speaker roles
service · allocation · triage · lineup · systematic · scheduling · chronological · succession
line
Continuous mark or queue
anticipation · standing · shuffling · snaking · winding · forming · joining · jumping · cutting · ticket
FIFO
Earliest in, earliest out
stack · array · node · pointer · overflow · underflow · front · rear · push · pop
backlog
Accumulated unfinished work
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
- playlistArranged media collection
- pendingAwaiting resolution or decision
processing · batch · stream · spool · inbox · docket · caseload · workload · stack-up · bottleneck
first-come-first-served
Priority by arrival order
- sequentialOccurring in succession
- priorityStatus of greater importance
- numberedAssigned figures for order
turn-taking · service · allocation · triage · lineup · systematic · scheduling · chronological · succession · next
hair
Fibrous scalp covering
ponytail · wig · periwig · eighteenth-century · colonial · powdered · ribbon · tied · nape · dangling
- listslist, roster, listing, register, grocery list
- British Englishaluminium, aubergine, behaviour, biscuit, bonnet
- postalmail, mail delivery, stamp, stamps, mail service
- airport gategate number, boarding pass, jet bridge, jetway, airbridge
- airport securityTSA, TSA agent, security, security checkpoint, screening
- bankbank, banks, teller, tellers, vault
queuecrowd
Large public gathering
chaos · mob · disorganization · disorder · throng
queuestack
Items piled vertically
LIFO · random access · heap · queue jumping · instant access
queuestampede
Frenzied mass flight
rush · scramble · pushing and shoving · cutting in line · queue jumping
- queued upWaiting in sequence
- queue upJoin waiting line
- jump the queueSkip your proper place
- jumping the queueBypassing the waiting order
- jumped the queueBypassed proper order
- queue jumpingBypassing the wait order
queued, queues, queueing, queue-jump, queue-jumper, queue up, queue-jumpers