queue

cola, fila

Fila de personas o cosas que esperan su turno.

En inglés sencillo: A line of people or things waiting for their turn.

• The queue is very long.
• We joined the queue outside the shop.
• Two queues formed in front of the ticket windows.

Cómo se usa: a queue for something (There was a long queue for tickets.)

Sinónimos: line

Expresiones frecuentes: join a queue, long queue, queue for tickets

hacer cola

Ponerse en una fila y esperar el propio turno.

En inglés sencillo: To stand in a line and wait for your turn.

• Please queue here.
• We queued for an hour to buy tickets.
• Are people already queuing outside the cinema?

Cómo se usa: queue for something (We queued for tickets in the rain.); queue up (People queued up outside the bakery.)

Sinónimos: line up

Expresiones frecuentes: queue for something, queue up, queue outside something

entrar en cola

Entrar en un sistema de espera en línea que busca otros jugadores para una partida.

En inglés sencillo: To join an online waiting system that finds other players for a game.

• We can queue together.
• He queued for a match with two friends.
• Are you queuing into another game tonight?

Cómo se usa: queue for something (We queued for a ranked match.); queue into a game (She queued into a game after dinner.)

Expresiones frecuentes: queue for ranked, queue with friends, queue into something