queue up

hacer cola, ponerse en fila

Ponerse en una fila de personas que esperan su turno, o formar esa fila.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Cómo se usa: queue up for something (Fans queued up for concert tickets.); queue up to do something (People queued up to enter the museum.)

Sinónimos: queue, line up

Expresiones frecuentes: queue up outside, queue up for tickets, queue up at checkout

poner en cola, añadir a la cola

Organizar cosas para que esperen a ser reproducidas, utilizadas o atendidas por orden.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: queue something up (She queued several songs up for the party.); queue up something for something (The system queues up documents for printing.)

Sinónimos: enqueue

Expresiones frecuentes: queue up songs, queue up a video, queue up print jobs