stack
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stack (plural stacks)
- 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 poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- 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 during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
- They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.
- (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
- (architecture) A vertical drain pipe.
- (Australian) (slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
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a pile of identical objects
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computing: data structure
[edit] Verb
stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)
- (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.
- (transitive) (Australian) (slang) To fall or crash.
- Jim couldn't make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
[edit] Translations
To place objects or material in the form of a stack
To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner
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stack c.
- a stack (e.g. of hay), a pile (e.g. of manure)
- an ant farm, an ant colony
- a stack (in computer memory)
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Declension of stack
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stack
- past tense of sticka.
