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    <title>stack</title>
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      <timestamp>2009-06-30T14:08:41Z</timestamp>
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        <username>Interwicket</username>
        <id>46132</id>
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      <comment>iwiki +[[:ko:stack]]</comment>
      <text xml:space="preserve">==English==
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===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|/stæk/}}
* {{rhymes|æk}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A large [[pile]] of [[hay]], [[grain]], [[straw]], or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with [[thatch]].
# A pile of similar objects, each directly on [[top]] of the last.
#: ''Please bring me a chair from that '''stack''' in the corner.''
# A pile of [[pole]]s or [[wood]], indefinite in quantity.
# A pile of wood containing 108 [[cubic foot|cubic feet]]. (~3 m&amp;sup3;)
# A [[smokestack]].
# {{computing}} A linear [[data structure]] in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a [[LIFO]] [[queue]].
# {{computing}} A portion of [[computer memory]] occupied by a '''stack''' [[data structure]], particularly ('''the stack''') that portion of [[main memory]] manipulated &lt;!-- by the [[CPU]] --&gt; during &lt;!-- [[execution]] of --&gt; [[machine language]] [[procedure call]] related instructions.
# {{geology}} A [[coastal]] [[landform]], consisting of a large [[vertical]] [[column]] of [[rock]] in the sea.
# {{context|library}} Compactly spaced [[bookshelf|bookshelves]] used to house large collections of [[books]].
# {{figurative}} A large amount of an object.
# {{military}} A pile of [[rifle]]s or [[musket]]s in a cone shape.
# {{poker}} The amount of [[money]] a player has on the table.
# {{architecture}} A [[vertical]] [[drain]] pipe.

====Translations====
{{trans-top|a pile of identical objects}}
* Croatian: {{t-|hr|stog|m}}
* French: {{t+|fr|pile|f}}
* [[Galician]]: [[pila]] {{f}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Hungarian: {{t-|hu|boglya}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pilha|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|pila|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|computing: data structure}}
* Croatian: {{t-|hr|stog|m}}
* Estonian: {{t-|et|pinu}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pino}}
{{trans-mid}}
* [[Galician]]: [[pila]] {{f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pilha|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|pila|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{transitive}} To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
#: ''Please '''stack''' those chairs in the corner.''
# {{transitive}}{{card games}} To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
#: ''This is the third hand in a row you've drawn a four-of-a-kind.  Someone is '''stacking''' the deck!''
# {{transitive}}{{poker}} To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
#: ''I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I '''stacked''' her!''
# {{transitive}} To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
#: ''The Government was accused of '''stacking''' the parliamentary committee.''

====Translations====
{{trans-top|To place objects or material in the form of a stack}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pinota}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Spanish: {{t-|es|apilar}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner}}
{{trans-mid}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Related terms===
* [[stackable]]
* [[stacked]]
* [[unstack]]
* [[chimney stack]]
* [[protocol stack]]

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