All 4 Uses of
queue
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- At the head of the queue of course were the hungriest—
p. 3.1 *queue = line of people
- Our gang formed the head of the queue before the cook-house.
p. 4.1
- How different this is from the conditions in the soldiers' brothels, to which we are allowed to go, and where we have to wait in long queues.
p. 150.3queues = lines
- After waiting by turns for three hours the queue disperses.
p. 180.1queue = line of people
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 orderQueue, in the sense of a line of people is more often used in Great Britain than in the United States.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, queue can refer to a pigtail (a braid of hair worn hanging at the back) as in "At that time in history, the Manchus forced the Han Chinese to adopt the Manchu queue hairstyle."