Which spelling is better, queueing or queuing? Both words seem to mean the same, but there are two different spellings. My context is: Queueing Latency versus Queuing Latency If both spelling...
But whether in the UK or the US, the branch of mathematics that deals with the question of how quickly things waiting in lines get to the front is called queueing theory and not *lining-up theory.
—Christopher Kimball, Cook's Illustrated, January & February 2008 and The crowd was queuing at the snack bar. And now look at this definition of 'Enqueue' as a verb from the Oxford Dictionaries- enqueue: VERB (enqueues, enqueuing or enqueueing, enqueued) [WITH OBJECT] Computing Add (an item of data awaiting processing) to a queue of such items.
Thanks for posting an answer! I didn't try too hard to understand the use of the technical terms in the quoted paragraph because to me, it sounded like the author was bloviating to avoid admitting ignorance :) Your interpretation of what he meant by "unrelated clause" seems plausible. "Your queueing and giving way to alighting passengers is so thoughtful of you" is not quite a reversal of "It ...
He says you can't pin down why you would use one or the other. If I'm standing in line, I'm standing in the line I am in. On the other hand, even if there is a line on the floor, that is not the line being referred to, but rather the line of people. Therefore you are in the line, and definately are not standing on [top of] the line of people.
Yes it is, but generally more so in certain contexts. For example, if I'm stuck in traffic I would say "sitting in queue", but I probably wouldn't use the word 'sitting' if I was talking about waiting for a teller at a bank.
I have tried to use candidate or queue member to indicate a person waiting in a queue, but the former is not accurate and the latter is not a noun. Is there a better word for a person waiting in...
Is this a proper word? Yes, it is the proper "word" if enqueue had already been defined in the document with a specific meaning of an activity/task. Say, the glossary lists enqueue . "The algorithm will enqueue the id associated with the job ... However, the algorithm could re-enqueue the id associated with the job ..." Do not forget the hyphen ever, in this particular kind of usage, though ...
I came across the expression "outstayed my welcome" in the following excerpt of a novel I glance around and see that the café has filled up with people ordering lunch and that a couple is queuing...
Not every combination of words is a compound noun recognised by all English speakers. 'Intellectual vertigo' isn't a real thing, just like 'brain fuel' isn't a real thing, but from knowing what the individual words mean you would understand it must be something that fuels the brain. So what could 'intellectual vertigo' mean? Literal vertigo is a physical feeling of unbalance or dizziness. It ...
