Please wait in the queue.

please Interjection

— We say "please" when we want to ask someone politely to do something. Pass the salt, please.

please Verb

— Someone pleases someone else when they do what that person likes or wants. Giving her these flowers will please her.

wait Verb

— If you wait for someone or something, you do something (or nothing) until something else happens. I waited for you for twenty minutes. Where were you? The fans waited patiently for their idol to arrive. — To wait is to take orders and serve food at the tables in cafes and restaurants. Her job at the cafe was to wait at the tables.

in Preposition

— Used to show that something is inside something else. The cat is in the box. — Used to show that someone is at home, or is available. Is John in? The Doctor is now in. — Used to show movement towards the inside. The rain came in through the window.

the Determiner

— Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist. Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book." — Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special. Are you the John Smith that I went to school with? — Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned The poor are always with us. — Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs. You are the best.

queue Verb

— If you queue, then you wait in or join a line. A line of people queued by the box office. There was an argument here about someone cutting the queue just now.