queue 1 S3 / kju / 名词 [可数名词]

1 British English a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etc, or a line of vehicles waiting to move 同义词 line American English

be/stand/wait in a queue

We stood in a queue for half an hour.

You’ll have to join the queue .

queue of

a queue of people waiting for the bus

queue for

the queue for the toilets

queue to do something

There was a long queue to get into the cinema.

the front/head/back/end of a queue

At last we got to the front of the queue.

2 British English all the people who are waiting to have or get something :

You’ll have to join the housing queue.

queue for

the queue for kidney transplant operations

It is possible to jump the queue (= get something before people who have been waiting longer ) if you are prepared to pay for your treatment.

3 technical a list of jobs that a computer has to do in a particular order :

the print queue

4 a number of telephone calls to a particular number that are waiting to be answered

→ the dole queue at dole 1 ( 2 )

COLLOCATIONS

动词

stand/wait in a queue She stood in the queue at the checkout.

be in a queue I’ve been in this queue for fifteen minutes.

form a queue Other passengers for the train were forming a queue.

join a queue He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets.

take your place in a queue (= join it ) I walked to the bus stop and took my place in the queue.

jump the queue (= go to the front rather than joining the end of a queue ) An argument developed when she tried to jump the queue.

a queue forms A queue had formed outside the shop.

a queue stretches somewhere The queue stretched the full length of the building.

形容词

long/big Already a long queue had formed outside the concert hall | There was a big queue.

small There was a small queue of people waiting to see the doctor.

an orderly queue (= with no bad behaviour or pushing in front of other people ) She told the children to form an orderly queue.

短语

the front/head of the queue He pushed his way to the front of the queue.

the back/end of the queue Get to the back of the queue!

be first in a queue I wanted to be first in the queue when the doors opened.