Queue vs Chain - What's the difference?
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(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
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
A series of interconnected things.
A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
(chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
(surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
(surveying) A long measuring tape.
A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres. Equal to 4 rods. Equal to 100 links.
(mathematics, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
(British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
* Milton
(nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
(weaving) The warp threads of a web.
To fasten something with a chain.
To link multiple items together.
To secure someone with fetters.
To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
(computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
(computing) To be chained to another data item.
To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
To load and automatically run (a program).
* 1996 , "Mr D Walsh", Running two programs from a batch file'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.misc )
* 1998 , "Juan Flynn", BBC software transmitted on TV - how to load?'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.misc )
* 2006 , "Richard Porter", SpamStamp double headers'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.apps )
Queue is a related term of chain.
As nouns the difference between queue and chain
is that queue is cue while chain is a series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.As a verb chain is
to fasten something with a chain.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.
Synonyms
* (place itself at the end of a queue) join a queue, join the queue, line upDerived terms
* dequeue * enqueue * queue upSee also
* FIFO * LIFO * cue ----chain
English
(wikipedia chain)Noun
(en noun)- He wore a gold chain around the neck .
- a chain of mountains
- a chain of ideas, one leading to the next
- This led to an unfortunate chain of events .
- That chain of restaurants is expanding into our town .
- When examined, the molecular chain included oxygen and hydrogen .
- the chains of habit
- Driven down / To chains of darkness and the undying worm.
- (Knight)
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* Albert chain * ball and chain * bra chain * chaincase * chain drive * chain gang * chain gun * chain letter * chain lightning * chainlink * chainlink fence * chain mail, chainmail * chainman * chain of command * chain of custody * chain of events * chain of production * chain of thought * chain of title * chain pickerel * chainplate * chain pump * chain reaction * chainring * chain rule * chainsaw, chain saw * chain shot * chain-smoke * chain smoker * chainsmoking, chain-smoking * chain stitch * chain store * chain story * daisy chain, daisy-chain * food chain * green chain * Gunter's chain, Gunter's Chain * heterochain * hogchain * homochain * interchain * intrachain * keychain, key chain * Markov chain * megachain * mountain chain * off the chain * retail chain * side chain, sidechain * signifying chain * snow chain * subchain * supply chain * toolchain * waist chainVerb
(en verb)- How do you get one program to chain another? I want to run DrawWorks2 then !Draw but as soon as you run Drawworks2 it finishes the batch file and doesn't go on to the next instruction! Is there a way without loading one of these automatic loaders?
- You can do LOAD "" or CHAIN "" to load or chain the next program if I remember correctly (it's been a loooong time since I've used a tape on an Acorn!)
- Recent versions of AntiSpam no longer use the Config file but have a Settings file instead, so when I updated the Config file to chain SpamStamp it had no effect as it was a redundant file.
