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📤 Removing from queue 📤 To remove from queue
to dequeue

to dequeue

7.7
To take the first item out of a queue in a computer program
  • verb
  • /diˈnkyu/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desencolar
  • To process the data efficiently, we need to dequeue the first item from the queue first.

Examples

  • The server will dequeue the oldest task to handle the current workload.

  • So next we'll dequeue the one with the smallest key, which is B.

  • When the program runs, it will automatically dequeue requests one at a time.

Antonyms

to enqueue
  • Specialized
7.6

To add something to the end of a line so it is handled in order

Surface Forms

dequeue infinitive
dequeued past
dequeued past participle
dequeueing present participle
dequeues third person singular

Morphology

dequeue = queue (transparent) = de + queue

In computing use, 'de-' straightforwardly signals removing something from a queue.

Etymology

Dequeue comes from the parts de- ('remove') and queue ('line'). To dequeue is to take the first thing out of a line, so in programming you dequeue the oldest item to process it.