Raw vs Queue - What's the difference?
raw | queue |
Of food: not cooked.
Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.
Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 New or inexperienced.
Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.
* 2010 , "Under the volcano", (The Economist), 16 Oct 2010:
Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
* Spenser
(slang) Without a condom.
(sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
* 1800 , Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer , Volume 22,
* 1921 , , The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry , Volume 13, Part 1,
* 1939 , The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Volume 148, Part 2,
(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 raw and queue
is that raw is an unprocessed sugar; a batch of such while queue is an animal's tail.As an adjective raw
is of food: not cooked.As an adverb raw
is without a condom.As an abbreviation RAW
is the rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or as opposed to the rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook).As a verb queue is
to put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.raw
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Adjective
(er)citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw . Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
- a raw wind
- a raw and gusty day
- with scull all raw
Synonyms
* See also * (without a condom)Derived terms
* (l)Adverb
(head)Noun
(en noun)page 287,
- With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.
page 149,
- Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
page 2924,
- The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.
Anagrams
* *queue
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(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.
