行ぎょう列れつ

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Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

行列する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Refers to a line of people, vehicles, or things waiting or moving in an orderly fashion. Can be a static queue or a moving procession.

Mathematical term for a rectangular array of numbers or symbols.

〈場ば所しょ〉に行ぎょう列れつができるa line/queue forms (at a place)
人にん気きのラーメン店てんの前まえに長ながい行ぎょう列れつができていた。
A long line had formed in front of the popular ramen shop.
行ぎょう列れつに並ならぶto stand/wait in line
チケットを買かうために行ぎょう列れつに並ならんだ。
I stood in line to buy tickets.
行ぎょう列れつを作つくるto form a line
開かい店てん前まえから客きゃくが行ぎょう列れつを作つくっていた。
Customers had already formed a line before the store opened.
行ぎょう列れつの先せん頭とうに立たつto stand at the front of the line
彼かれは行ぎょう列れつの先せん頭とうに立たって入いり口ぐちを待まった。
He stood at the front of the line waiting for the entrance to open.

列れつN3sense 1
列 is a general word for any row or line, while 行列 usually implies a longer, more organized queue or a formal procession.
行こう進しんN1sense 1
行進 emphasizes the act of marching in step (as in a military or ceremonial march), while 行列 focuses on the line of people or things itself.
パレード sense 1
パレード is a loanword for a festive, celebratory parade, whereas 行列 is broader and can also mean an ordinary waiting queue.
マトリックス
行列 is the native Japanese mathematical term for a matrix, while マトリクス is the loanword often used in computing or more general technical contexts.

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長ちょう蛇だの列れつ
行列 is the neutral word for any line or queue, while 長蛇の列 specifically stresses that the line is extremely long, like a snake.
整せい列れつN1
行列 usually refers to a queue of people waiting their turn, whereas 整列 emphasizes the act of arranging into a straight, orderly line.

順じゅん番ばん待まち sense 1
順番待ち refers to the act of waiting for one's turn, while 行列 refers to the physical line of people itself.

列れつN3
row; line; queue; procession · group; ranks; company · sequence (mathematics) · series (taxonomic rank) · counter for rows

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Compound of 行 (going, line) and 列 (row, line). The mathematical sense is a calque from English 'matrix'.