stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion,” and the verb means “to place (data, tasks, etc.) in a queue.” In the computer sense, the OED says, the noun “queue” means “a list of data items, commands, etc. The verb can mean to arrange or form a queue (a waiting line), and to line up or wait in such a line, a usage that the Oxford English Dictionary describes as chiefly British. The word “queue” also has several senses today. In contemporary English, the verb “cue” has several meanings: (1) to use a cue in pool, billiards, or snooker (2) to prompt someone or something (3) to insert (usually “cue in”) something in a performance (4) to prepare (usually “cue up”) a recording to play. In a recent search with Google’s Ngram Viewer, which compares terms in digitized books, “cue up the video” appeared, but not “queue up the video.” And in searches of the News on the Web corpus, a database of terms from online newspapers and magazines, “cue up the video” edged out “queue up the video,” though the results for both were scanty.
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