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queued
[ kyood ]
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 ).
Word History and Origins
Origin of queued1
Example Sentences
In Madrid, people queued outside tech shops to get their hands on a power bank.
The club's secretary for decades, he had been there as supporters queued up to offer life savings just to ensure the club could complete a season.
Mourners queued outside the church early on Sunday morning to be among the first to pay their respects to Pope Francis, who died aged 88 on Monday.
Several queued outside wooden booths, each topped with a sign indicating in which languages the priests inside could hear confessions.
Later that day, people queued to file past his body at the town's Shire Hall.
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