kolejka — meaning in English

English meaning

• line noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
• queue noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
• round adjective Shaped like a circle or sphere, with no sharp corners.

Senses

kolejka is used for these senses in English:

• line A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16th c.]
• queue A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
• queue (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide. [from 20th c.]
• round A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.

line — full definition

1. noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
2. noun A row or sequence of people, things, or words, one after another.
3. verb To arrange people or things in a row, or to form such a row.
4. verb To cover the inside surface of something with a layer of material.
5. noun A telephone or other communication connection.

queue — full definition

1. noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
2. noun In computing, a data structure that holds items to be processed in order, usually first-in-first-out.
3. verb To line up and wait for a turn.
4. verb To add an item to a waiting list or processing order.

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