different between queue vs tier

English

Etymology

From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin c?da, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kju?/
• (General American) enPR: kyo?o, IPA^(key): /kju/
• Hyphenation: queue
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: cue, Kew, kyu, Q, que

Noun

queue (plural queues)

1. A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). [from 19th c.]
   • 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle, Chapter 5,

     I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue.

2. A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
3. (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide. [from 20th c.]
   • 2005, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, p. 234,

     Queue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO queues are also known as stacks).

4. (heraldry) An animal's tail. [from 16th c.]
   • 1863, Charles Boutell, A Manual of Heraldry, p. 369:

     HESSE: Az., a lion, queue fourchée, rampt., barry of ten, arg. and gu., crowned, or, and holding in his dexter paw a sword, ppr., hilt and pommel, gold.

5. (now historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. [from 18th c.]
   • 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter XIX:

     […] , there were seated astraddle the whole hundred of the baronet's musqueteers, each engaged in plaiting into a queue the hair of the man who sat in front of him.

   • 1912, Herbert Allen Giles, China and the Manchus, Chapter III — Shun Chih:

     A large number of loyal officials, rather than shave the front part of the head and wear the Manchu queue, voluntarily shaved the whole head, […]

   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 176:

     Caparisoned for a week in purple velvet knee-length pantaloons, a red silk jacket with buckles of shiny brass, and a white goat's-hair wig which culminated behind in a saucy queue, I must have presented an exotic sight […]

Synonyms

• (line of people, vehicles, etc): line (US), lineup (Canada)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• cue
• queueing theory
• queue-jump
• jump the queue

Related terms

• caudal
• quevée

Translations

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.
2. (intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
3. (computing, transitive) To add to a queue data structure.
4. To fasten the hair into a queue.

Synonyms

• (place itself at the end of a queue): join a queue, join the queue, line up

Derived terms

• dequeue
• enqueue
• queue up

Translations

See also

• FIFO
• LIFO
• cue

Further reading

• Queue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Queue in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

French

Alternative forms

• queüe (obsolete)
• queuë (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French queu, cueue, from Old French cue, coe, from Vulgar Latin c?da, variant of Latin cauda. Doublet of coda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kø/
• Homophones: qu'eux, queux, queues
• Rhymes: -ø

Noun

queue f (plural queues)

1. tail
2. queue, line

   Synonym: file d'attente

3. (snooker) cue
4. (vulgar, slang) cock, dick (penis)

   Synonym: bite

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Queue
• Dutch: keu
• English: queue, cue
  • German: Queue
• Swedish: kö
• Norwegian: kø
• Danish: kø

Further reading

• “queue” in the Dictionnaires d’autrefois
• “queue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

queue f (oblique plural queues, nominative singular queue, nominative plural queues)

1. Alternative form of cue

English

Etymology 1

tie +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: t?'?(r), IPA^(key): /?ta?.?(?)/
• (US) enPR: t?'?r, IPA^(key): /?ta?.?/
• Hyphenation: tier
• Homophones: tire, tyre

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. One who ties (knots, etc).
2. Something that ties.
3. (archaic) A child's apron.

Etymology 2

From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English t?r (“glory, honour, fame”), German Zier (“adornment, ornament, decoration”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA^(key): /?t??/
• (US) enPR: tîr, IPA^(key): /?t??/
• Hyphenation: tier
• Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in layers.
2. (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
3. (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.

References

• Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tire, trie

Afrikaans

Etymology

From a dialectal form or pronunciation of Dutch tijger, from Middle Dutch tiger.

Noun

tier (plural tiere or tiers)

1. tiger
2. leopard

   Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd

Danish

Etymology 1

From ti (“ten”) +? er

Alternative forms

• 10'er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti???r/, [?t?i??]

Noun

tier c (singular definite tieren, plural indefinite tiere)

1. ten (the card between the nine and jack in a given suit)
2. ten (a monetary denomination worth ten units)
3. number ten (a person or a thing defined by the number ten, e.g. a bus-line)
4. (in the plural) tens (the second decade of a century, like the 1910s or 2010s)

Inflection

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti??r/, [?t?i??]
• Homophone: tiger

Verb

tier

1. present tense of tie

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ir

Verb

tier

1. first-person singular present indicative of tieren
2. imperative of tieren

Anagrams

• riet

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tier m (definite singular tieren, indefinite plural tiere, definite plural tierne)

1. a ten kroner coin, worth about £1 in Britain.
2. something or someone that has the number ten (ti)

Verb

tier

1. present of tie

References

• “tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tier.

Noun

tier m (plural tiers)

1. (Sursilvan) animal

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) biestg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) bestga
• (Sursilvan) bestia
• (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha