word-vault/dist/data/cards/qu/queue.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "queue",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a line of people, cars, etc. waiting for something or to do something",
            "sensetop": "queue for somethingqueue of somebody/somethingin a queue",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English(especially British English)(especially North American English)(especially North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)(North American English, informal)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)(North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There were **long queues** at polling stations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the bus queue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the front/head/back/end of the queue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had to join a queue for the toilets.",
                    "contextForm": "queue for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Patients face lengthy queues for treatment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a queue of traffic waiting to turn right.",
                    "contextForm": "queue of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a queue of people trying to get in."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How long were you in the queue?",
                    "contextForm": "in a queue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shoppers had to wait in long queues."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have to stand in a queue at immigration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I took my place in the queue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Long queues are building up on the city's exit roads."
                },
                {
                    "text": "More unemployed people are joining the dole queue each week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please form an orderly queue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The queue stretched for more than a mile."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The queue's not moving at all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a long queue of shoppers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the country's soaring prices and growing food queues"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the queue for tickets"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Shopping", "Transport by car or lorry"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["endless", "long", "growing"],
                "verb + queue": ["form", "line up in", "join"],
                "queue + verb": ["form", "build up", "grow"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the queue", "queue for", "queue of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the back of the queue",
                    "the end of the queue",
                    "the front of the queue"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a list of items of data stored in a particular order",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to go to the front of a line of people without waiting for your turn",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kjuː/",
                "audio": "qu/queue/queue__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kjuː/",
                "audio": "qu/queue/queue__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue ‘long stick used for playing billiards, pool and snooker’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent."
}