The difference between Lineup and Queue

When used as nouns, lineup means a physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them, whereas queue means an animal's tail.


Queue is also verb with the meaning: to put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

check bellow for the other definitions of Lineup and Queue

  1. Lineup as a noun (US, legal, &, law enforcement):

    a physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them

  2. Lineup as a noun (Canada):

    A line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end; a queue.

  3. Lineup as a noun (sports):

    Collectively, the members of a team.

    Examples:

    "The manager fielded his strongest lineup for the game against United."

  4. Lineup as a noun (baseball):

    The batting order.

  5. Lineup as a noun (music):

    The acts performing at a concert or music festival.

  1. Queue as a noun (heraldry):

    An animal's tail.

  2. Queue as a noun (now, _, historical):

    A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.

  3. Queue as a noun:

    A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).

  4. Queue as a noun:

    A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

  5. Queue as a noun (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.

  1. Queue as a verb:

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

  2. Queue as a verb:

    To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.

  3. Queue as a verb (computing):

    To add to a queue data structure.

  4. Queue as a verb:

    To fasten the hair into a queue.

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