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A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
A pile of identical 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 memory in a computer occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
(gaming) The list in order of pending game actions which may be added to. From w: Magic: The Gathering.
(slang) A construction intended to keep frosh out of a senior's room on Caltech's ditch day.
(geology) Coastal landform. A large vertical column of rock in the sea.
(library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
Aircraft circling an airport while awaiting landing authorisation.
A large amount of an object.
A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
A vertical pipe, such as the funnel on a ship.
(slang) One thousand dollars.

stack

To place objects or material in the form of a stack.
Please stack those chairs in the corner.
To place an object on a stack.
Please stack that chair on top of the others.
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!
A type of interchange.

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 # A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m&sup3;)
 # A [[smokestack]].
-# (''computing'') A linear [[data structure]] in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved (just as the last item placed on a stack is the first one removable).
+# (''computing'') A linear [[data structure]] in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a [[LIFO]] [[queue]].
-# (''computing'') A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
+# (''computing'') A portion of memory in a computer occupied by a '''stack''' [[data structure]], particularly ('''the stack''') that portion of [[main memory]] manipulated <!-- by the [[CPU]] --> during <!-- [[execution]] of --> [[machine language]] [[procedure call]] related instructions.
 # (''gaming'') The list in order of pending game actions which may be added to. From [[w: Magic: The Gathering]].
 # (''slang'') A construction intended to keep [[frosh]] out of a senior's room on Caltech's [[ditch day]].