queue up

sich anstellen, Schlange stehen

Sich in eine Reihe wartender Menschen stellen oder eine solche Reihe bilden.

In einfachem Englisch: To join or form a line of people waiting for their turn.

• Please queue up by the door.
• We queued up for an hour to buy tickets.
• Why are people queuing up outside that shop?

So benutzt man es: queue up for something (Fans queued up for concert tickets.); queue up to do something (People queued up to enter the museum.)

Synonyme: queue, line up

Häufige Wendungen: queue up outside, queue up for tickets, queue up at checkout

in die Warteschlange stellen, einreihen

Dinge so anordnen, dass sie nacheinander abgespielt, verwendet oder bearbeitet werden.

In einfachem Englisch: To arrange things so they wait to be played, used, or dealt with in order.

• Queue up your favourite songs.
• I queued up three videos to watch later.
• The computer has queued the files up for printing.

So benutzt man es: queue something up (She queued several songs up for the party.); queue up something for something (The system queues up documents for printing.)

Synonyme: enqueue

Häufige Wendungen: queue up songs, queue up a video, queue up print jobs