QUEUE

I. noun Etymology: French, literally, tail, from Old French cue, coe, Latin cauda, coda Date: 1748 a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head, a waiting line especially of persons or vehicles, 3. a sequence of messages or jobs held in temporary storage awaiting transmission or processing, a data structure that consists of a list of records such that records are added at one end and removed from the other, II. verb (~d; queuing or ~ing) Date: 1777 transitive verb to arrange or form in a ~, intransitive verb to line up or wait in a ~, ~r noun