All 3 Uses of
queue
in
Brave New World
- Like aphides and ants, the leaf-green Gamma girls, the black Semi-Morons swarmed round the entrances, or stood in queues to take their places in the monorail tram-cars.
p. 63..1queues = lines
- Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station-seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them.
p. 164..5 *queued = lined
- He passed his hand over his eyes as though he were trying to wipe away the remembered image of those long rows of identical midgets at the assembling tables, those queued-up twin-herds at the entrance to the Brentford monorail station, those human maggots swarming round Linda's bed of death, the endlessly repeated face of his assailants.
p. 221..9
Definition:
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(queue as in: in the queue) a line of people waiting for something; or anything (such as computer tasks) that are lined up to be handled in ordereditor's notes: Queue, in the sense of a line of people is more often used in Great Britain than in the United States.