queue up

faire la queue

Rejoindre ou former une file de personnes qui attendent leur tour.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : queue up for something (Fans queued up for concert tickets.); queue up to do something (People queued up to enter the museum.)

Synonymes : queue, line up

Expressions courantes : queue up outside, queue up for tickets, queue up at checkout

mettre en file d’attente

Organiser des éléments pour qu’ils soient lus, utilisés ou traités chacun à leur tour.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : queue something up (She queued several songs up for the party.); queue up something for something (The system queues up documents for printing.)

Synonymes : enqueue

Expressions courantes : queue up songs, queue up a video, queue up print jobs