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Sequent vs Queue - What's the difference?

sequent | queue |

As nouns the difference between sequent and queue

is that sequent is something that follows in a given sequence while queue is an animal's tail.

As an adjective sequent

is that comes after in time or order; subsequent.

As a verb queue is

to put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

sequent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
  • *1860 , , Two Sonnets :
  • *:Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad
  • *:As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?
  • *:Each night since first the world was made hath had
  • *:A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
  • That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent (to), (on), (upon).
  • *c. 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure :
  • *:But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.
  • *1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
  • *:Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
  • Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
  • *c. 1603 , (William Shakespeare), Othello , I.2:
  • *:The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that follows in a given sequence.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
  • *:The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
  • (logic) An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
  • (obsolete) A follower.
  • (Shakespeare)

    queue

    English

    (wikipedia queue)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldry) An animal's tail.
  • * 1863 , Charles Boutell, A Manual of Heraldry , p. 369:
  • 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.
  • * 1889 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Micah Clarke , :
  • , 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.
  • * 1912 , :
  • 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,
  • * 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 176:
  • 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 [...].
  • 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 , ,
  • I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue .
  • 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,
  • 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 queue

    Verb

  • (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
  • 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.
  • * 1820 , Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • 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 up

    Derived terms

    * dequeue * enqueue * queue up

    See also

    * FIFO * LIFO * cue ----