Phalanx vs. Queue

Phalanxnoun

An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.

Phalanxnoun

(historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.

Phalanxnoun

(plural phalanxes) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.

Phalanxnoun

One of the bones of the finger or toe.

Phalanxnoun

A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.

Phalanxnoun

Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.

Phalanxnoun

A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.

Phalanxnoun

One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.

Phalanxnoun

A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.

Phalanxnoun

any of the bones (or phalanges) of the fingers or toes

Phalanxnoun

any closely ranked crowd of people

Phalanxnoun

a body of troops in close array

Phalanx

The phalanx (Ancient Greek: φάλαγξ; plural phalanxes or phalanges, φάλαγγες, phalanges) was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar pole weapons. The term is particularly used to describe the use of this formation in Ancient Greek warfare, although the ancient Greek writers used it to also describe any massed infantry formation, regardless of its equipment.

Queuenoun

(heraldry) An animal's tail.

Queuenoun

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.

Queuenoun

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).

Queuenoun

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

Queuenoun

(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.

Queueverb

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

Queueverb

To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.

Queueverb

(computing) To add to a queue data structure.

Queueverb

To fasten the hair into a queue.

Queuenoun

A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.

Queueverb

To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

Queuenoun

a line of people or vehicles waiting for something

Queuenoun

(information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted

Queuenoun

a braid of hair at the back of the head

Queueverb

form a queue, form a line, stand in line;

Queuenoun

a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.

Queuenoun

a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.

Queuenoun

a plait of hair worn at the back.

Queueverb

take one's place in a queue

Queueverb

be extremely keen to do or have something

Queueverb

arrange in a queue