All 9 Uses
queue
in
Ready Player One
(Edited)
- When the song ended, Og took a bow, then queued up a slow song.
p. 185.8queued = lined up
- The Cyndi Lauper song ended and Og queued up another dance track— "James Brown Is Dead" by L.A. Style.
p. 187.6 *
- There was no downtime between calls, because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech rep hold their hand and fix their problem.
p. 207.2queue = line
- I put myself in the call queue and began my twelve-hour shift.
p. 283.9
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- The only TV show I had access to was a company-produced sitcom called Tommy Queue.
p. 281.9queue = a last name
- I selected the first episode of Tommy Queue, then unsnapped the visor and put it on.
p. 282.2
- So I stayed awake as long as I could, ignoring one episode of Tommy Queue after another.
p. 282.4
- It lit up, presenting me with the same choices I'd had on my first night here: a handful of training films and simulations, including the complete run of Tommy Queue episodes.
p. 286.8 *
- If anyone checked the usage logs for my entertainment center, they would show that I watched Tommy Queue every night until I fell asleep, and that once I'd worked my way through all sixteen episodes, I'd started over at the beginning.
p. 286.8
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."