What's the difference between quay and queue?

Quay


Definition:

  • (n.) A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with quays.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is understood that ITV is looking at rationalising its network production in the north of England as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures, with executives questioning whether it needs its Leeds studios as well as its Manchester Quay Street site.
  • (2) Whether the migrants were already in the container when it arrived at the quay will help police establish where to look for the criminal gang believed to be involved in facilitating their trafficking.
  • (3) It appears likely that the company could close both its current main studios in the north of England and shift production, including that of Coronation Street, to the same site as the BBC's new northern base at Salford Quays.
  • (4) A few days later, I sat with Catrambone on the quay in Marsa, Malta as the Phoenix was loaded for its first mission of this year.
  • (5) A previously described mutation in a leucine-responsive trans-acting factor, LivR (J. J. Anderson, S. C. Quay, and D. L. Oxender, J. Bacteriol.
  • (6) This study tests predictions that adolescent psychopaths are hyperresponsive to rewards (Quay, 1988) and deficient in passive avoidance learning (Newman & Kosson, 1986).
  • (7) In addition, the licence-fee payer will have to pick up a bill of over £28m for Broadcasting House and £60m for Pacific Quay as a result of the BBC's decision to change plans mid-stream.
  • (8) The stout-candied air, high beams and heavy pews are reminiscent of church-scale pubs on Galway’s Quay Street, but the beams are hung with Arthurian standards.
  • (9) The BBC announced in 2007 that it planned to sell off the building as several thousand staff from the news, children's, sport, learning, future media and technology departments and Radio 5 Live move to new homes at the refurbished Broadcasting House in central London and Salford Quays in Greater Manchester by 2012.
  • (10) There is the quay and a scatter of moored fishing and pleasure boats to the left; way over the other side of the estuary, Borth sands appear deserted save for a few stick figures playing football.
  • (11) Item analysis was conducted on the obtained subscales, and convergent validity was determined by correlation with the Revised Behavior Problem Checklist (Quay & Peterson, 1987).
  • (12) If the BBC can go to the quays of Salford , the Guardian can return to Manchester.
  • (13) At Blakeney in north Norfolk the water breached the quay at about 5.30pm on Thursday.
  • (14) Officials took down a huge banner next to the quay that said the citizens of Dikili opposed the refugees’ arrival .
  • (15) Newcastle and Gateshead Quays: conservation Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gateshead Quays.
  • (16) A factor analytic study of the Quay-Peterson (1967) Behavior Problem Checklist among American Indians indicated cross-cultural factor similarity for conduct problems.
  • (17) If you have ever pressed your nose against the window of a Burberry or Prada boutique but felt too intimidated to go in, worried you will be turfed out Pretty Woman-style by a snooty shop assistant, places like Bicester, Portsmouth's Gunwharf Quays and Cheshire Oaks are for you.
  • (18) Fat Freddy's, Quay Street For cheap and cheerful eating try Fat Freddy's (+353 91 567 279), a chilled out pizzeria in Quay Street with friendly waiting staff.
  • (19) The Quays have a history of investment in arts and culture, and there was a high degree of flexibility throughout.
  • (20) Applicants for jobs at BBC North are now told in the application form: "By applying for any role that will move to Salford Quays, you are also declaring your intention to be based there from the point of move, should you be successful at interview."

Queue


Definition:

  • (n.) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
  • (n.) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
  • (v. t.) To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
  • (2) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
  • (3) He claimed that while he faced pressure to reduce airport queues, including from ministers, he could never be accused of compromising security for convenience.
  • (4) The energy secretary, Ed Davey, gave similar advice on Sky News, saying motorists did not need to queue for fuel but should fill up ahead of the Easter getaway.
  • (5) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
  • (6) Updated at 10.21am GMT 10.18am GMT Queues at cash machines It isn’t just physical security that is under threat in Ukraine but also financial stability.
  • (7) Sometimes you can be in a queue, and you're the only white person.
  • (8) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.
  • (9) The Hard Rock Cafe has long been famous for its queue, but that was so odd it was a tourist attraction, something people pointed and laughed at.
  • (10) This is even truer as our country cut the number of refugees we take from the so-called “queue”, leaving more and more people in desperate circumstances.
  • (11) Roberts said: "We are recognised as a stand out competitor within the IPO queue.
  • (12) At only 580 sq metres, it’s less than half the size of a standard store but employs nearly twice the staff – to keep shelves full throughout the day and checkout queues short.
  • (13) The uptake was so high, there were queues of women waiting.
  • (14) Insecurity has led to panic buying of fuel, with long, chaotic queues at petrol stations.
  • (15) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
  • (16) The show at Kings Place in King's Cross became known to the world via rumour – the fact that the venue is directly below the offices of the Guardian helped in this respect – shortly after 6.30pm on Friday night, and within minutes a queue started to form outside.
  • (17) At 5pm today port authorities counted 2,400 people queuing for tickets, with queues taking two hours to clear.
  • (18) The queue for copies of the report inside the White House press room was unprecedented - "and I've been here since '52," one old hand said.
  • (19) Or you can do it at the desk with your smartphone if you can remember the website address, don’t mind the data roaming charges, can remember your national insurance number and are impervious to the long queue developing behind you”.
  • (20) Further, despite the advent of publicly financed economic solutions to these access differentials-Medicaid and Medicare, in particular-organizational barriers to entry, such as the long queues to obtain service and long travel times to care in some areas, still exist.