![]() ![]() The word queue also has several senses today. Regimental tails were ordered be nine inches long. In contemporary English, the verb cue has several meanings: (1) to use a cue in pool, billiards, or snooker (2) to prompt someone or something (3) to insert (usually cue in) something in a performance (4) to prepare (usually cue up) a recording to play. From the French, which signifies tail an appendage that every British soldier is directed to wear in lieu of a club. Conclusion Cue and queue might sound perfectly identical, but their spellings aren’t the same and neither their meanings. as a verb, queue (mainly used as queue up) refers to the action of lining up to wait for something. in sense of "braid of hair hanging down behind" (attested by 1748), originally part of the wig, in later 18c. Example 2: When the tickets will start being sold, people will quickly queue up to buy them. In time, we shall see it perfected, by practice to the rank almost of an art and the art, or quasi-art, of standing in tail become one of the characteristics of the Parisian People, distinguishing them from all other Peoples whatsoever. If we look now at Paris one thing is too evident: that the Baker's shops have got their Queues, or Tails their long strings of purchasers arranged in tail, so that the first come be the first served,-were the shop once open! This waiting in tail, not seen since the early days of July, again makes its appearance in August. English and American military dictionaries). 1500) perhaps led to the extended sense of "line of people, etc." (1837), but this use in English is perhaps directly from French ( queue à queue, "one after another" appears in early 19c. A metaphoric extension to "line of dancers" (c. English, "tail of a beast," especially in heraldry. By 1802 wearing a queue was a regulation in the British army, but by the mid-19th century queues had disappeared along with cocked. French queue appeared in 1748 in English, referring to a plait of hair hanging down the back of the neck. ![]() Late 15c., "band attached to a letter with seals dangling on the free end," from French queue "a tail," from Old French cue, coe, queue, "tail" (12c., also "penis"), from Latin coda (dialectal variant or alternative form of cauda) "tail" (see coda, and compare cue (n.2)).Īlso in literal use in 16c. The French word queue from which the English word is borrowed is a descendant of Latin cauda, meaning 'tail'. ![]()
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