stack

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Related terms 1.5 Anagrams

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /stæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

[edit] Noun

stack (plural stacks)

1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
2. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

   Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.

3. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
4. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
5. A smokestack.
6. (computing) A linear data structure in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
7. (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.
8. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
9. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
10. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
11. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
12. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
13. (architecture) A vertical drain pipe.
14. (Australian) (slang) A fall or crash, a prang.

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to stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

   Please stack those chairs in the corner.

2. (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!

3. (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!

4. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).

   The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.

5. (transitive) (Australian) (slang) To fall or crash.

   Jim couldn't make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.

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[edit] Related terms

• stackable
• stacked
• unstack
• chimney stack
• protocol stack

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of ackst
• tacks