All 7 Uses of
queue
in
Me Before You
- There were no queues to enter the racecourse, which was, admittedly, a little less grand than I had expected, and the car park was clearly marked.†
p. 158.1queues = noun: lines OR verb: lines up
- We sat, listening to it tick its way down, the dull murmur of the cars queuing along the road beside us.
p. 237.9 *queuing = lining up
- Beyond it lay the town, the neon signs and queues of traffic, the bustle that marked the rush hour.†
p. 268.7queues = noun: lines OR verb: lines up
- I had been off on Friday—in part because the Traynors insisted I was owed a day off, but mostly because there was no way I could get a passport other than by heading to London on the train and queuing up at Petty France.†
p. 330.3queuing = lining up
- I stared at the passport that I had queued to collect, remembering my mounting sense of excitement even as I sat on the train heading into the city, and for the first time since I had embarked upon my plan, I felt properly despondent.†
p. 336.6queued = lined up
- I had felt the faintly sick sensation expanding inside me even as we wheeled Will through passport control, fast-tracked by some well-meaning official even as I prayed that we would be forced to wait, stuck in a queue that lasted hours, preferably days.†
p. 368.8
- We queue-jumped, sped up the inside lane, broke the speed limit, and scanned the radio for the traffic reports, and finally the airport came into view.†
p. 392.5
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."