All 12 Uses
queue
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All the Light We Cannot See
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- In the alleys, fifteen-year-old boys are making their way toward mine elevators, queuing up with their helmets and lamps outside the gates.
p. 68.5 *queuing = lining up
- At the prefecture, a queue for gasoline coupons snakes out the door and around the block.†
p. 107.2queue = line
- Mornings he alternates between Madame Manec's kitchen, the tobacco shop, and the post office, where he waits in interminable queues to use the telephone.†
p. 144.8queues = noun: lines OR verb: lines up
- This afternoon a familiar face looms in the train station, maybe four or five back in the queue.†
p. 188.1queue = line
- Queue up for boiled beef.†
p. 267.9
- The queue stretches out the door.†
p. 346.3
- Gray faces and gray quiet and a gray nervous terror hanging over the queue at the bakery and the only color in the world briefly kindled when Etienne climbs the stairs to the attic, knees cracking, to read one more string of numbers into the ether, to send another of Madame Ruelle's messages, to play a song.†
p. 353.2
- The suitcases, the queues, the wailing babies, the soldiers pouring back into the cities with eternity in their eyes—in what system is order increasing?†
p. 355.4queues = noun: lines OR verb: lines up
- Etienne makes it to the bakery in an icy sweat and cuts to the front of the queue.†
p. 421.1queue = line
- The women in the queue are muttering, intrigued or scandalized or both.†
p. 421.3
- and at the Napola school at Schulpforta, one hundred and nineteen twelve —and thirteen-year-olds wait in a queue behind a truck to be handed thirty-pound antitank land mines, boys who, in almost exactly eight months, marooned amid the Russian advance, the entire school cut off like an island, will be given a box of the Reich's last bitter chocolate and Wehrmacht helmets salvaged from dead soldiers, and then this final harvest of the nation's youth will rush out with the chocolate melting in their guts and overlarge helmets bobbing on their shorn heads and sixty Panzerfaust rocket launchers in their hands in a last spasm of futility to defend a bridge that no longer requires defending, while†
p. 467.5
- Madame Ruelle pulls Etienne out of the processing queue, and he wraps Marie-Laure in his arms.†
p. 478.3
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) 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."