queue

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
queue/kjuː/

▶noun

• 1 chiefly Brit. a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.

  ■ Computing a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order.

• 2 archaic a plait of hair worn at the back of the head.

▶verb (queues, queuing or queueing, queued) chiefly Brit. wait in a queue.

■ Computing arrange in a queue.

– origin C16 (as a heraldic term denoting an animal's tail): from Fr., based on L. cauda ‘tail’; cf. cue2.