有趣的 排隊：queue, waiting line, removing one's queue 就是剪掉辮子。討論捷運的廣播 stay behind the waiting line？

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有趣的 queue, waiting line, removing one's queue 就是剪掉辮子。討論捷運的廣播 stay behind the waiting line？ https://www.facebook.com/hanching.chung/videos/1986685041498592

The word “queue” is ironic. It’s just a Q with a bunch of silent letters waiting in line.

queue

/kjuː/

Origin

late 16th century (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue². queue (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the late 18th century.

隊列 /kjuː/ 起源 16 世紀末（作為紋章學術語，表示動物的尾巴）：源自法語，基於拉丁語 cauda「尾巴」。與 cue2 進行比較。隊列 (名詞意義 1) 起源於 18 世紀晚期。

queue

/kjuː/

noun

1. 1.

   BRITISH

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

Get to the end of the queue and wait your turn like everyone else.

1. 2.

   COMPUTING

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

verb

1. 1.

   BRITISH

   take one's place in a queue.

   "in the war they had queued for food"
2. 
   

COMPUTING

arrange in a queue.

"input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system"

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Essential Meaning of queue

1chiefly British : a line of people who are waiting for somethingThe people formed a queue [=(US) line] at the ticket window.We were forced to stand/wait in a queue.a bus/taxi queue

2computers : a series of instructions that are stored in a computer so that they can be processed laterThree jobs remain in the printer queue.

Full Definition of queue

 (Entry 1 of 2)

1: a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head   辮子(歧視語pigtail)

removing one's queue 就是剪掉辮子

2: a waiting line especially of persons or vehicles

3a: a sequence of messages or jobs held in temporary storage awaiting transmission or processing

b: a data structure that consists of a list of records such that records are added at one end and removed from the other

queue

 verb

queued; queuing or queueing

Definition of queue (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

: to arrange or form in a queue (see QUEUE entry 1)

intransitive verb

: to line up or wait in a queue —often used with up

Is it que, queue, or q?

One of our persistent—and more puzzling—lookups is for the word que, which is entered in our dictionary (capitalized) as an abbreviation for Quebec. Qué is also a Spanish word that means “what.” That is not, however, the word that many people are looking for when they look up que in our dictionary. Que is homophonous with a number of other words, most of which have wildly different spellings and meanings. One of the words that people are looking for when they look up que is queue, a word that means “line” (as in, “We waited in the ticket queue.”) Sometimes people are looking for the homonym cue, or “a signal to start or do something” (“The lights just went out—that’s my cue to start the movie.”). Very occasionally, people look up que for coup, a word that refers to a violent and sudden overthrow or takeover of a government (“reports on the latest coup attempt”). And if you’re looking for the phonetic spelling of the letter q, try again: that’s cue.

是 que、queue 還是 q？

我們一直堅持不懈（也最令人費解）查找的單字之一是 que，它在我們的字典中（大寫）作為魁北克的縮寫。 Qué 也是一個西班牙語單詞，意思是「什麼」。然而，這並不是許多人在我們的字典中查找“que”時所尋找的單字。 Que 與許多其他單字同音，其中大多數單字的拼字和意義有很大差異。人們在查找 que 時要查找的單字之一是 query，其意思是「排隊」（例如，「我們在隊列中等候買票。」）。在極少數情況下，人們會查找“coup”這個詞，該詞指的是暴力和突然推翻或奪取政府（“關於最新的政變企圖的報道”）。如果您正在尋找字母 q 的語音拼寫，請再試一次：那是 cue。

Shì que,queue háishì q?

Examples of queue in a Sentence

NounThe Tiong Bahru hawker center in Singapore might well be my favorite place in the world to start the day. I remember vividly my first visit: I arrived jetlagged and hungry at seven in the morning to find vendors stir-frying greens in gigantic woks, sending up whooshes of smoke fragrant with garlic. Long queues of businessmen and construction workers and families who likely lived in the nearby housing projects snaked from the cash register of each stall.— James Oseland, Saveur, October 2008Around the time the Soviet Union ceased to exist, I was waiting in the entry queue at Fiumicino Airport in Rome when I noticed a party of several dozen young Russian girls being fast-tracked past a freshly opened control window.— Peter Robb, New York Times Book Review, 25 May 2008句子中排隊的例子 名詞 新加坡的 Tiong Bahru 小販中心可能是我最喜歡的開始一天的地方了。我清楚記得我第一次來這裡的經歷：早上七點，我既有時差反應，又飢腸轆轆，卻發現小販們正在用巨大的炒鍋翻炒蔬菜，煙霧繚繞，還夾雜著大蒜的香味。長長的隊伍從每個攤位的收銀台前蜿蜒而出，有商人、建築工人，還有可能住在附近住宅區的家庭。— 詹姆斯·奧斯蘭，Saveur，2008 年 10 月 大約在蘇聯解體的時候，我在羅馬菲烏米奇諾機場的入境隊列中等待時，注意到一群幾十名俄羅斯年輕女孩正在快速通過剛剛打開的控制窗口。— Peter Robb，《紐約時報書評》，2008 年 5 月 25 日Jùzǐ zhōng páiduì de lìzǐ míngcí xīnjiāpō de Tiong Bahru xiǎofàn

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討論

stay behind the waiting line？

Hanching Chung <hcsimonl@gmail.com>	Mon, Oct 4, 6:34 AM
to Howard

張華兄，台北捷運廣播的 behind  the waiting line, 顯然誤解 waiting line.

正確的說法呢

waiting line 指的是 排的隊之‘’長度‘’。 高鐵似乎用 behind the bar

Howard Chang	Oct 4, 2021, 11:17 AM
to me

waiting line是指言月台邊縱走的黃色警戒線，一般稱為yellow line.不是指隊伍。

圖 stay behind the yellow line

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