queueing

Verb

queue (third-person singular simple present queues, present participle queueing or queuing, simple past and past participle queued)

1. (intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
   • Although there is a spacious circulating area beyond the platforms at Clacton, there is severe overcrowding on peak Saturdays; at times of pressure passengers have to queue out into the street [...]1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 189

   Synonyms:

   join a queue, join the queue, line up

2. (intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
3. (transitive) To add to a queue data structure.
4. To fasten the hair into a queue.
   • The sons, in short square skirted coats with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times, especially if they could procure an eel skin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
5. To matchmake.
   • I'm queueing into a game.

See all 10 meanings of queue

Noun

queuing (countable and uncountable, plural queuings)

1. The act of queuing up (lining up) or waiting in line/on line.
2. The act of placing something in a queue.