Lane vs Queue - What's the difference?
lane | queue |
A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees
A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles
A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart
A course designated for ships or aircraft
(card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
(heraldry) An animal's tail.
* 1863 , Charles Boutell, A Manual of Heraldry , p. 369:
* 1889 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Micah Clarke , :
* 1912 , :
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 176:
A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is t with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
* 1916 , ,
A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
(computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (- a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.
* 2005 , David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell , p. 234,
(British) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
(British) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
(computing) To add to a queue data structure.
To fasten the hair into a queue.
* 1968 , Francis Russell, The American Heritage History of the Making of the Nation
* 1820 , Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
As nouns the difference between lane and queue
is that lane is a narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees while queue is an animal's tail.As a proper noun Lane
is {{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived in a lane.As a verb queue is
to put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.lane
English
(wikipedia lane)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* laneway * memory lane * shipping lane * swimlaneSee also
* alley * alleyway * carriageway * direction * gennel, ginnel, guinnel, gunnel, jennel * gitty, jitty * side * passage * roadway * snicket * wyndExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----queue
English
(wikipedia queue)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- , 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.
- 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,
- 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 [...].
- I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue .
- 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).
Synonyms
* line (North America)Derived terms
* double-ended queue * queueing theory * queue-jump * jump the queueVerb
- Though Monroe the man has become a vague anachronistic figure in knee breeches and with queued , powdered hair, his name is perpetuated in the Monroe Doctrine, evoked by him as a temporary response to an immediate crisis.
- 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.