Sekirov Dictionary

stack

/stæk/

noun 23
verb 9
forms 4
phrases 3

noun23

A pile.
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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.
- But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. — 1790
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A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
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(UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- There was against euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height — 1631
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
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An extensive collection
- She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'. — 1997
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(figurative) A large amount of an object.
- They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.
A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
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A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack. — 1992
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A smokestack.
- The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable. — 1961
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
A vertical drainpipe.
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An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
- A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.
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A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
- A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites. — 2016
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Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks. — 1994
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A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- A boat's-crew landed one time upon one of the stacks with the intention of attacking the seals. — 1828
The amount of money a player has on the table.
A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
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(Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
- "You've got to go all out in a race or you don't get a good time," he said. "But going all out means that you have a few stacks." — 1989
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The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
- I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.
A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.

verb9

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To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
- Please stack those chairs in the corner.
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To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
- This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
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To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- to be stacked against (someone)
- The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
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To operate cumulatively.
- A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth.
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(US, slang) To crash; to fall.
- Jim couldn't make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
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To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
(informal) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
To have excessive ink transfer.

forms

stacked · stacking · stacketh · stacks

Phrases with stack

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