"enqueue" meaning in All languages combined

See enqueue on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: enqueues [present, singular, third-person], enqueuing [participle, present], enqueueing [participle, present], enqueued [participle, past], enqueued [past]
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  1. (transitive, computing) To add an item to a queue. [from 20th c.] Tags: transitive Derived forms: enqueuer Translations (to add an item to a queue): asettaa jonoon (Finnish), einreihen (note: in eine Warteschlange f) (German), accodare (Italian), エンキューする (enkyū suru) (Japanese), zakolejkować [perfective] (Polish), enfileirar (Portuguese), sıralamak (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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