What is a word for waiting in line

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  1. What does it mean to wait in line?
  2. What’s another word for waiting in line?
  3. Is it wait in line or wait on line?
  4. Why do people hate waiting in line?
  5. How do you skip a line on hold?
  6. What is waiting in queue?
  7. What is another word for in line with?
  8. What is the waiting line problem?
  9. Is it get on line or get in line?
  10. Is on line correct?

phrase. When people stand in line or wait in line, they stand one behind the other in a line, waiting their turn for something. [US] I had been standing in line for three hours. regional note: in BRIT, use queue.

What’s another word for waiting in line?

What is another word for waiting in line?

queueing queuing
walking in line getting in line
joining a queue joining the queue
standing in line waiting your turn
standing in a queue aligning

Is it wait in line or wait on line?

Do you wait ‘on line’ or ‘in line’? Waiting in line is much more common than waiting on line, which is a phrase largely local to the New York City region. Both communicate the same meaning. All queued up.

Why do people hate waiting in line?

Waiting in line puts us in direct contact with the unknown: we don’t know when we’ll check out. And the psychology of waiting reveals that people hate the unknown. Because the unknown breeds anxiety, so that anxiety quickly festers into annoyance—and then finally hatred of the line.

How do you skip a line on hold?

Here are 5 tricks to follow:

  1. 1) Take Your Problem to Twitter. When people are stuck on hold, they often talk about it on Twitter.
  2. 2) Pretend Like You Speak a Different Language.
  3. 3) Jump on Live Chat – It’s Instant.
  4. 4) Get Customer Service to Call You.
  5. 5) Time Your Call.

What is waiting in queue?

queue Add to list Share. A queue is a line of things, usually people. Queue comes from the Latin cauda, for tail. Outside the United States it means a line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, so if your English friend talks about queuing up for the movies, that means getting in line for a ticket.

What is another word for in line with?

What is another word for in line with?

consistent with corresponding to
according to in relation to
in keeping with commensurate with
in accordance with along with
in agreement with depending on

What is the waiting line problem?

The waiting line or queue management is a critical part of service industry. It deals with issue of treatment of customers in sense reduce wait time and improvement of service. Queue management deals with cases where the customer arrival is random; therefore, service rendered to them is also random.

Is it get on line or get in line?

And if the New Yorker’s accent isn’t an immediate giveaway, the phrase on line usually is. In many states across the country, it’s all the same: people stand in line at the grocery store, wait in line at the pharmacy, and get in line for school drop-off.

Is on line correct?

The common adjective used to label Internet activities is usually written as one word: “online”: “The online site selling banana cream pies was a failure.” But it makes more sense when using it as an adverbial phrase to write two separate words: “When the teacher took her class to the library, most of them used it to …

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What is another word for waiting in line? Verb. Present participle for take one’s place in a queue. queueing. queuing.

Likewise, what does waiting in queue mean?

queue. A queue is a line of things, usually people. Queue comes from the Latin cauda, for tail. Outside the United States it means a line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, so if your English friend talks about queuing up for the movies, that means getting in line for a ticket.

Also Know, are in the queue?

One of the words that people are looking for when they look up que is queue, a word that means “line” (as in, “We waited in the ticket queue.”) Sometimes people are looking for the homonym cue, or “a signal to start or do something” (“The lights just went out—that’s my cue to start the movie.”).

How do you use the word queue?

queue Sentence Examples

  1. The queue to get in here is longer than you’d guess.
  2. The list was a scrolling queue of names.
  3. Instead of the space port theming in the queue line, the narrow hallways have been painted with fluorescent paint and blacklit to provide a mild 3D effect, and riders can purchase 3D glasses if desired.

What does in queue mean?

queue. A queue is a line of things, usually people. Queue comes from the Latin cauda, for tail. Outside the United States it means a line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, so if your English friend talks about queuing up for the movies, that means getting in line for a ticket.

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WordReference Random House Learner’s Dictionary of American English © 2023

wait /weɪt/USA pronunciation  
v. 

  1. to remain in a place and not do anything until something expected happens: [no object]We waited until the bus came.[no object* (~ + for + object)]We’ve been waiting for the bus.[~ + object + for + object]We waited a week for your letter.[~ + to + verb]We waited to see you.
  2. to be available or in readiness:[no object]A letter is waiting for you on your desk.
  3. to remain neglected for a time:[not: be + ~-ing* no object]That matter can wait until later.
  4. to (cause to) be postponed or delayed:[no object]Your vacation will have to wait until next spring.[~ + object]to wait a week.
  5. to look forward to eagerly:[~ + for + object]to wait for a chance to get even.
  6. wait on, [~ + on + object]
    • to serve food or drink to.
    • to attend to the needs of (a customer):Is someone waiting on you?
    • to be a servant for.
    • [Informal.]to wait for;
      await.

  7. wait out, [~ + out + object] to postpone or delay action until the end of:We decided to wait out the storm.
  8. wait up, [no object] to postpone going to bed in order to await someone’s arrival.

n. [countable]

  1. an act or period of waiting.

Idioms

  1. Idioms lie in wait, to wait in ambush so as to surprise another.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023

wait 
(wāt),USA pronunciation v.i.

  1. to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often fol. by for, till, or until):to wait for the bus to arrive.
  2. (of things) to be available or in readiness:A letter is waiting for you.
  3. to remain neglected for a time:a matter that can wait.
  4. to postpone or delay something or to be postponed or delayed:We waited a week and then bought the house. Your vacation will have to wait until next month.
  5. to look forward to eagerly:I’m just waiting for the day somebody knocks him down.

v.t.

  1. to continue as one is in expectation of;
    await:to wait one’s turn at a telephone booth.
  2. to postpone or delay in expectation:Don’t wait supper for me.
  3. [Archaic.](of things) to be in readiness for;
    be reserved for;
    await:Glory waits thee.
  4. [Archaic.]to attend upon or escort, esp. as a sign of respect.
  5. wait on:
    • to perform the duties of an attendant or servant for.
    • to supply the wants of a person, as serving a meal or serving a customer in a store.
    • to call upon or visit (a person, esp. a superior):to wait on Her Majesty at the palace.
    • Sport[Falconry.](of a hawk) to soar over ground until prey appears.
    • Dialect Terms[Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.]to wait for (a person);
      await.
    • Also, wait upon. to await (an event).

  6. wait table. See table (def. 21).
  7. wait up:
    • to postpone going to bed to await someone’s arrival.
    • Informal Termsto halt and wait for another to join one, as in running or walking:Wait up, I can’t walk so fast.

n.

  1. an act or instance of waiting or awaiting;
    delay;
    halt:a wait at the border.
  2. a period or interval of waiting:There will be a long wait between trains.
  3. Show Business[Theat.]
    • the time between two acts, scenes, or the like.
    • See stage wait. 

  4. British Terms
    • waits, (formerly) a band of musicians employed by a city or town to play music in parades, for official functions, etc.
    • a street musician, esp. a singer.
    • one of a band of carolers.
    • a piece sung by carolers, esp. a Christmas carol.

  5. [Obs.]a watchman.
  6. lie in wait, to wait in ambush:The army lay in wait in the forest.
  • Anglo-French derivative of waitier
  • Gmc; cognate with Old High German wahtēn to watch, derivative of wahta a watch (see wake1); (noun, nominal) late Middle English
  • Anglo-French waitier; Old French guaitier
  • (verb, verbal) early Middle English waiten 1150–1200

    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged await, linger, abide, delay.
      Wait, tarry imply pausing to linger and thereby putting off further activity until later.
      Wait usually implies staying for a limited time and for a definite purpose, that is, for something expected:to wait for a train.Tarry is a somewhat archaic word for wait, but it suggests lingering, perhaps aimlessly delaying, or pausing (briefly) in a journey:to tarry on the way home; to tarry overnight at an inn.


    10. e, f. Sometimes considered objectionable in standard usage, the idiom wait on meaning «to wait for, to await (a person)» is largely confined to speech or written representations of speech. It is most common in the Midland and Southern United States:Let’s not wait on Rachel, she’s always late.Wait on or upon (an event) does not have a regional pattern and occurs in a wide variety of contexts:We will wait on (or upon) his answer and make our decision then.The completion of the merger waits upon news of a drop in interest rates.


Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

wait /weɪt/ vb

  1. when intr, often followed by for, until, or to: to stay in one place or remain inactive in expectation (of something); hold oneself in readiness (for something)
  2. to delay temporarily or be temporarily delayed: that work can wait
  3. when intr, usually followed by for: (of things) to be in store (for a person)
  4. (intransitive) to act as a waiter or waitress

n

  1. the act or an instance of waiting
  2. a period of waiting
  3. (plural) rare a band of musicians who go around the streets, esp at Christmas, singing and playing carols
  4. lie in wait ⇒ to prepare an ambush (for someone)


See also wait on, wait upEtymology: 12th Century: from Old French waitier; related to Old High German wahtēn to wake1

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What do you usually say, depending on the context and depending if it’s US or UK English?

wait in line or queue

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In US English, the thing is:

a line

(‘waiting line’ is not used).

To be on it is

to wait in line

To add to it is:

to get in line

answered Oct 2, 2012 at 12:11

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queue (UK)
I never «wait in line». I always «queue».

answered Oct 2, 2012 at 11:55

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In the US it’s always line. I haven’t heard anyone say, waiting in queue or queued for food. The NOAD also marks it chiefly Brit.

That said, queue is pretty common when it comes to computers. And in some areas it may refer to a braid of hair worn at the back.

«Samurai shaved the tops of their heads and then gathered hair from the sides and back together into a queue. They applied oil to the queue before doubling it forward over the crown, then tying it at the point where it was doubled over.»

answered Oct 2, 2012 at 12:15

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Wait on line in New York City. Wait in line in the rest of the US.

Good discussion here

Supposedly, New Yorkers wait on line because of Ellis Island having had painted lines on the floors. New immigrants were told to wait «on the line.» And, it has changed our local lexicon. (i.e. It is a shibboleth.)

answered Feb 17, 2014 at 20:48

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No one in the US ever really says queue. We say ‘get on line’, ‘wait in line’, ‘don’t cut the line’, ‘line up’, ‘what a long line!’, ‘make a line’, ‘form a line’, etc. Queue is reserved for technical usage, such as in computer science where one might create a queue of objects. A LIFO queue (last in, first out), a FIFO queue (first in, first out) are common computer programming constructs. There is no right or wrong. Language is dynamic, ever-changing and tied to whatever is ‘normal’ for a given culture. What may sound correct to British ears sounds outright funny to American ears and vice-versa, but that’s ok. It surely keeps things interesting!

answered Feb 17, 2014 at 20:28

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In an English school you will hear a teacher say ‘line up!’ as a command though. He will not say ‘queue!’ as a command.

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