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queue up

/kyoo/US // kyu //UK // (kjuː) mainly British //

排队等候,排队,排队等待,列队

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
    • : a file or line, especially of people waiting their turn.
    • : Computers. a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action.
  1. 1

    queued, queu·ing.

    • : to form in a line while waiting.
    • : Computers. to arrange into a queue.

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Examples

  • “While Apple will never admit it, I think there are times when they simply forget an item’s in the review queue or they intentionally keep it untouched as a sanction to a developer giving them the wrong attitude,” said Shoji.

  • This summer, when the majority of tests were being shoved into the PCR queue, turnaround times stretched out, with some people waiting more than two weeks for test results.

  • That makes it harder to get more people on our team, to get space in the dev queue to make site changes, to get rises and promotions.

  • While it may have helped get rid of the snaking queues, this steep tax has suppressed the demand for liquor.

  • You can also bribe someone in charge of allocating available apartments to get the better position in the queue.

  • A few years ago, I was standing in a queue behind two men and eavesdropping on their conversation.

  • With Seacrest, the queue of big-name Miss Havishams in lacy, "nude" boring dresses reached a critical mass.

  • If only because it was the most ridiculously glamorous queue for the make-up chair I have ever seen.

  • Of course, it could take some time, given that Syria has pushed a lot of things to the back of the queue.

  • At the beginning of this year, the queue in Embassy/Baghdad was roughly 2,000 cases (meaning upwards of 4-5,000 individuals).

  • Her hair had fallen from its pins and hung in a braid, its length concealed by her position, and making the effect of a queue.

  • The veil had slipped and might easily have been mistaken for a ribbon confining the queue at the base of the head.

  • His heart was open as the day,His feelings all were true; His hair was some inclined to gray—He wore it in a queue.

  • He wore a long queue, which depended half-way down his back.

  • Complaints are useless; a ruthless hand sweeps you away, and the queue closes up.