queued

[ kyood ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

waiting in a line:
The motorcycle zipped by, overtaking the queued cars and cutting in front of all of them.
Computers. assigned to or arranged in a list of items waiting for action:
The service has since been restored and all queued emails have been delivered.
The queued operations may be rearranged and optimized before execution.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of queue ( def ).

Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of queued¹

queue ( def ) + -ed ²( def ), -ed ³( def )

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

Several queued outside wooden booths, each topped with a sign indicating in which languages the priests inside could hear confessions.

From

Later that day, people queued to file past his body at the town's Shire Hall.

From

Thousands of art fans have queued around the block in Bradford to see an exhibition of portraits of extraordinary members of the public.

From

He said he and his two colleagues queued for four hours to secure a replacement flight in the end and a hotel organised by the airline - 30 miles from the airport.

From

Others queued up along the road in front of the National Museum, stretching all the way back to Students' Square.

From

queue queue fourché

Browse