queue

英 [kju?] 美[kju]

近義詞braid cue

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復數(shù):?queues;第三人稱單數(shù):?queues;過去式:?queued;過去分詞:?queued;現(xiàn)在分詞:?queuing;

queue 隊伍，行列，尾巴

來自古法語cue,尾巴，來自拉丁語coda,尾巴。詞源同coda,coward.引申詞義隊伍，行列。

queue: queue: [16] Etymologically a queue is simply a ‘tail’. That was the meaning of its Latin ancestor cauda, a word of unknown origin which has also given English caudal ‘of a tail’ [17] and, via Italian, coda [18] (literally a ‘tail’-piece). To begin with in English queue (acquired via French) was used only as a technical term in heraldry for a ‘tail’. It was not until the 18th century that metaphorical applications started to appear: to a ‘billiard stick’ (now spelled cue) and a ‘pigtail’. ‘Line of people waiting’ (which has never caught on in American English) emerged in the early 19th century.
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queue (n.): late 15c., "band attached to a letter with seals dangling on the free end," from French queue "a tail," from Old French cue, coe "tail" (12c., also "penis"), from Latin coda (dialectal variant or alternative form of cauda) "tail," of unknown origin. Also in literal use in 16c. English, "tail of a beast," especially in heraldry. The Middle English metaphoric extension to "line of dancers" (c. 1500) led to extended sense of "line of people, etc." (1837). Also used 18c. in sense of "braid of hair hanging down behind" (first attested 1748).
queue (v.): "to stand in a line," 1893, from queue (n.). Earlier "put hair up in a braid" (1777). Related: Queued; queueing. Churchill is said to have coined Queuetopia (1950), to describe Britain under Labour or Socialist rule.

1. The queue for places at the school has never been longer.: 排隊申請上這所學校的人數(shù)達到歷史最高峰。