stack

Plural: stacks

Noun

• an orderly pile
• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
• a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
• a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
• A pile.
• A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
• A pile.
• A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
• A pile.
• A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
• A pile.
• A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
• A pile.
• An extensive collection
• A smokestack.
• In computing.
• A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
• In computing.
• A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
• In computing.
• An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
• In computing.
• A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
• A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
• A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
• Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
• A large amount of an object.
• A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
• The amount of money a player has on the table.
• In architecture.
• A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
• In architecture.
• A vertical drainpipe.
• A fall or crash, a prang.
• A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
• A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
• The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.

Verb

Verb Forms: stacked, stacking, stacks

• To pile items neatly one on top of another.
• load or cover with stacks
  • "stack a truck with boxes"
• arrange in stacks
  • "stack your books up on the shelves"
• arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
  • "stack the deck of cards"
• To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
• To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
• To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
• To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
• To crash; to fall.
• To operate cumulatively.
• To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
• To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
• To have excessive ink transfer.

Examples

• A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth.
• A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.
• He tried to STACK his tiles strategically, hoping to draw a high-value blank.
• I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
• I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.
• Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
• Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
• Please stack those chairs in the corner.
• The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
• They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.
• This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
• to be stacked against (someone)

Synonyms

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, push-down list, push-down stack, push-down storage, push-down store, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, smokestack, spate, tidy sum, wad, accumulate, agglomerate, amass, build up, cumulate, heap up, mound, pile up, protocol stack, rack up, smash, stack, stack up, technology stack, upheap, wreck

Antonyms

skip

Related Words

stack it, stackable, stacked, unstack