Queue vs. Q — What's the Difference?

A line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.

Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is cue (pronounced ), plural cues.

A list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.

The 17th letter of the modern English alphabet.

A plait of hair worn at the back.

Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter q.

Take one's place in a queue

The 17th in a series.

Arrange in a queue

Something shaped like the letter Q.

A line of waiting people or vehicles.

Q A hypothetical lost manuscript, consisting largely of sayings of Jesus, that is believed to have been the source of those passages in Matthew and Luke that bear close similarity to each other but not to parallel passages in Mark.

A sequence of stored data or programs awaiting processing.

The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (kū) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the PhŒnician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian.

A data structure from which the first item that can be retrieved is the one stored earliest.

The 17th letter of the Roman alphabet

A long braid of hair worn hanging down the back of the neck; a pigtail.

To get in line

To place in a sequence

To braid or twist (hair) into a queue.

A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).

A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

(computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.

(heraldry) An animal's tail.

A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.

(intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

(intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.

To add to a queue data structure.

To fasten the hair into a queue.

A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.

To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

A line of people or vehicles waiting for something

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

A braid of hair at the back of the head

Form a queue, form a line, stand in line;