queue

file d’attente

Suite de personnes ou de choses qui attendent leur tour.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : a queue for something (There was a long queue for tickets.)

Synonymes : line

Expressions courantes : join a queue, long queue, queue for tickets

faire la queue

Se mettre dans une file et attendre son tour.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : queue for something (We queued for tickets in the rain.); queue up (People queued up outside the bakery.)

Synonymes : line up

Expressions courantes : queue for something, queue up, queue outside something

entrer dans la file d’attente

Rejoindre une file d’attente en ligne qui cherche d’autres joueurs pour une partie.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : queue for something (We queued for a ranked match.); queue into a game (She queued into a game after dinner.)

Expressions courantes : queue for ranked, queue with friends, queue into something