"Queue" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 duì wǔ ranks / troops / queue / line / procession / CL:個|个[ge4],支[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
 duì liè formation (of troops) / alignment / (computing) queue / cohort (in a study)
 cháng duì line (i.e. of people waiting) / queue
 zhù liè queue (computing)
 cháng lóng long queue / long line (of cars, people etc)
 chā duì to cut in line / to jump a queue / to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution)
 biàn a braid or queue / to plait
 rén lóng a queue of people
 tì fà lìng the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
 tì fà liú biàn to shave the head but keep the queue
 jiū biàn zi to grab sb by the queue (i.e. hair) / to seize on weak points / to exploit the opponent's shortcomings
 chē lóng long queue of slow-moving traffic / tram
 xiāo xi duì liè message queue (computing)
 dà pái cháng lóng to form a long queue (idiom) / (of cars) to be bumper to bumper
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