![]() ![]() Is it the same as the letter "q"?Īs for waiting to talk to someone on a hotline, they might use line as well. I don't even know how to pronounce it personally. I came across the word a couple of days ago in an English-Spanish translation post, and at first thought it was Spanish. Like, if I were to say to someone that they needed to wait in the "linear arrangement of persons waiting to get rung up by the cashier" then they'd get the idea, but would have to think about it a second or two first. And then they might have to reapply the technical/scientific definition to make sense in the everyday scenario. Hence I think only Americans who are very highly educated, or maybe have some sort of technical/scientific background (or an English language major) are going to have any clue as to what this means. Queues provide services in computer science, transport, and operations research where various entities such as data, objects, persons, or events are stored and held to be processed later." ![]() "A queue is an example of a linear data structure, or more abstractly a sequential collection.The cars were waiting one behind the other to get on the freeway. The cars were waiting in line to get on the freeway. Traffic was backed up waiting to get on the freeway. There was a long line of traffic waiting to get on the freeway. With anything physical (like your example of the cars) we are definitely not ever going to use the word "queue." We might use some other expression than line, but definitely not "queue." ![]()
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