haystack

English

A haystack

Etymology

From Middle English haystak, haystake, hey stak, equivalent to hay +‎ stack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɪˌstæk/

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Noun

haystack (plural haystacks)

1. A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
2. (canoeing) A standing wave in a rapid.
3. (programming, PHP) The text string within which another string is searched for.
   • 2010, Peter MacIntyre, PHP: The Good Parts, page 39:

     Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack.

4. A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.

Synonyms

• (pile of stored hay): hayrick, wynd

Derived terms

• Hawaiian haystack
• needle in a haystack

Translations

a mound, pile, or stack of stored hay

• Albanian: mullar (sq) m
• Armenian: դեզ (hy) (dez)
• Bashkir: кәбән (käbän) (large), күбә (kübä) (small)
• Belarusian: стог m (stoh), стог се́на m (stoh sjéna)
• Bulgarian: ќупа f (ќupa), ќупа се́но f (ќupa séno)
• Catalan: paller (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 草垛 (zh) (cǎoduǒ)

• Czech: kupka sena f, stoh (cs) m
• Danish: høstak (da) c
• Dutch: hooiberg (nl) m
• Esperanto: fojnamaso
• Faroese: sáta f, hoysáta f, des f
• Finnish: heinäsuova (fi)
• French: meule de foin (fr) f
• Galician: palleiro (gl) m
• Georgian: ზვინი (zvini)
• German: Heuschober (de) m, Heuhaufen (de) m
• Hebrew: ערימת שחת‎ f
• Hungarian: szénaboglya (hu)
• Icelandic: heystakkur m, hey (is) n
• Italian: pagliaio m, bica (it) f

• Japanese: 干し草の山 (ほしくさのやま, hoshikusa no yama)
• Laz: ბარდი (bardi)
• Macedonian: стог m (stog), пласт m (plast)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høystakk m

  Nynorsk: høystakk m

• Polish: stóg (pl) m, stóg siana m
• Portuguese: monte de feno m, palheiro (pt)
• Russian: стог (ru) m (stog), стог се́на m (stog séna), копна́ (ru) f (kopná)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стог m, пласт m

  Roman: stog (sh) m, plast (sh) m

• Slovak: kôpka sena f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: stog m

  Upper Sorbian: stóh m

• Spanish: almiar (es) m, pajar m
• Swedish: höstack (sv) c
• Tagalog: mandala ng dayami
• Turkish: saman yığını
• Ukrainian: стіг m (stih), стіг сі́на m (stih sína)
• Westrobothnian: såtan n