Wordie: Queue

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(n): a formation of people or things one behind another

(n): (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted

(n): a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)

(n): a braid of hair at the back of the head

(n): a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

(v): form a queue, form a line, stand in line

(v): be standing; be upright

noun, verb

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9 months ago uselessness said:

I like it because it's just a bunch of vowels, preceded by the bizarrest letter in the alphabet. Plus, it should be impossible to pronounce but is instead deceptively easy.

9 months ago yarb said:

I'm surprised how popular this one is. I'm British and I hate queues. Give me a third-world scrum any day. Of course it will be different when I'm 64.

9 months ago kewpid said:

"Please Q here."

about 1 year ago uselessness said:

A pool stick.

about 1 year ago SonofGroucho said:

Not to be confused with cue.

about 1 year ago seanahan said:

Also a common term in Computer Science, describing a data structure which is essentially a queue, first in, first out. As opposed to a stack, which is last in, first out.

about 1 year ago Lampbane said: Final Jeopardy for December 14

Category: Word Oddities

Answer: Britishism that has one consonant followed by four vowels

Question: What is queue?

(2 out of 3 contestants got it right)

about 1 year ago oroboros said:

"what can lose 4 of its 5 letters and still say what it names?"

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