Queue vs Range - 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 line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
* L'Estrange
Selection, array.
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, title= An area for practicing shooting at targets.
An area for military training or equipment testing.
The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
* (Alexander Pope)
* Bishop Fell
* Addison
(mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
(statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
(sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
(music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
(ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
(programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
* Sir M. Hale
(obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
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(US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
To travel (over) (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
To rove over or through.
* John Gay
(obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit (to), (over).
*, I.40:
To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
(mathematics, computing''; ''followed by over ) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
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To form a line or a row.
* Dryden
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To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
* Shakespeare
To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
* Bible, 2 Macc. xii. 20
To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
* Burke
(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
To separate into parts; to sift.
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
Queue is a related term of range.
As nouns the difference between queue and range
is that queue is cue while range is homework.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 ----range
English
(wikipedia range)Noun
(en noun)- Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
- He was bid at his first coming to take off the range , and let down the cinders.
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- Far as creation's ample range extends.
- The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
- A man has not enough range of thought.
- The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
- (Clarendon)
- He may take a range all the world over.
Synonyms
* (area for military training) base, training area, training ground * (distance to an object) distance, radius * compassAntonyms
* (values a function can obtain) domainHolonyms
* (values a function can obtain) codomainDerived terms
* (area for practicing shooting) archery range * (area for practicing shooting) firing range * (area for practicing shooting) indoor range * (area for practicing shooting) shooting range * (area for practicing shooting) target range * (area for military training) air weapons range * (area for military training) artillery range * (area for military training) grenade range * (area for military training) live-fire range * (area for military training) missile range * (area for military training) rocket range * (area for military training) tank range * (maximum range) effective range * (maximum range) maximum rangeVerb
- to range the fields
- Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
- The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
- At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
- In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
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- to range plants and animals in genera and species
- The front of a house ranges with the street.
- which way the forests range
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
- And range with humble livers in content.
- Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
- It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
- The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
- (Holland)
- to range the coast