queue
14
6.0
A list of tasks like messages waiting to be handled in order
- noun
- /kjuː/
- Specialized
:
cola
- The printer is busy, and your document is in a queue for printing.
- print queue
- printer queue
- jobs on the queue
That way these episodes will be right there ready for you in your queue when they drop.
- That way these episodes will be right there ready for you in your queue when they drop.
- It wasn't front and center in my Netflix queue screaming at me to watch.
- And you also need to decide what new pages to add to this queue based on like hyperlinks.
- So we set particular targets such that the render queue is not empty.
- We've done a lot of things and we had a lot of things in the queue that we wanted to get done.
- I take the first one off the queue doesn't go to the goal.
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Examples
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Finally, you answer, I've been waiting an hour on this virtual queue.
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Your call has been placed in a queue.
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Your call is in a queue.
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Your call is important to us and is in a queue.
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Your call is important to us and is held in a queue.
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I just moved into the top of my queue on Netflix!
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I'll put it in my queue.
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Other advances in spooling systems allow a single queue to spread jobs across multiple queue drivers.
Academic text (1997) -
Anything on the queue?
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It's in my queue!
Compounds
How Immediate
callback
2
4.6
- Specialized
2
4.6
asynchronously
1
7.3
1
7.3
queue
14
6.0
- Specialized
14
6.0
batch processing
1
3.9
- Specialized
1
3.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
In computing, a queue is a list of tasks that wait their turn, and the word comes from queue 'tail' — it helps to think of tasks standing in a line, waiting one after another to be handled.