The Only Use of
queue
in
Ender's Game
- He was telling his desk to keep sending a message into the interrupt queue every thirty seconds.
p. 61.0queue = ordered list
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."