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очередь — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • burst verb To break open suddenly, often from internal pressure.
  • go verb To move or travel from one place toward another.
  • 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.
  • turn verb To move or rotate around an axis, or to change direction.

Senses

очередь is used for these senses in English:

  • burst A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
  • go A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • 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.]
  • turn A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • turn A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • turn One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.

burst — full definition

  1. verb To break open suddenly, often from internal pressure.
  2. verb To move suddenly and forcefully, especially entering or exiting.
  3. noun A sudden, brief outbreak or surge of something.

go — full definition

  1. verb To move or travel from one place toward another.
  2. verb To function or proceed in a particular way.
  3. noun An attempt or turn at doing something.
  4. adj Ready and functioning correctly; cleared to proceed (chiefly in launch/technical contexts).
  5. noun An ancient strategy board game for two players who try to control territory on a grid using black and white stones.

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