queued
Stood in line
Queued means placed in a line or sequence to await processing or attention.
The word comes from queue, a waiting line.
Documents are queued for printing, customers are queued at checkout, songs are queued in a playlist.
I queued up three episodes to watch later.
British English uses queued more broadly for physically standing in line: We queued for an hour outside the cinema.
Calm during delays
- lineContinuous mark or queue
- turnRotational movement
- standbyReady substitute awaiting use
- pauseTemporary cessation of activity
idle · boredom · restlessness · lingering · loitering · dawdling · time-consuming · tedious
Accumulated unfinished work
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
- holdupTheft by threat
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
- gridlockComplete mutual obstruction
jam · stalled · overdue · behind · lagging · snarl-up · impeded · logjam
Ordered list of participants
- sequenceOrdered succession of elements
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement
- formationCreation or arrangement
succession · sorting · prioritization · scheduling · systematization · marshalling · configuration · seriation
patience
Calm during delays
pause · idle · boredom · restlessness · lingering · loitering · dawdling · time-consuming · tedious · slow-moving
backlog
Accumulated unfinished work
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
- holdupTheft by threat
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
gridlock · jam · stalled · overdue · behind · lagging · snarl-up · impeded · logjam · sluggish
lineup
Ordered list of participants
- sequenceOrdered succession of elements
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement
formation · succession · sorting · prioritization · scheduling · systematization · marshalling · configuration · seriation · alignment
playlist
Arranged media collection
streaming · processing · loading · batch · spooling · pending · jobs · tasks · print · render
- delaysdelays, delay, delayed, postponement, postpone
- organizedorganized, ordered, arranged, sorted, classified
- statusespending, active, approved, inactive, completed
- standbyready, waiting, on hold, on call, backup
- publication statuspublished, unpublished, in print, out of print, in press
- sorting orderssorted, sort order, ascending, descending, alphabetical
- queued upWaiting in sequence
- queue upJoin waiting line
- queuing upJoining an orderly wait
- jump the queueSkip your proper place
- jumping the queueBypassing the waiting order
- jumped the queueBypassed proper order