2. n. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
3. n. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
4. n. (UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
5. n. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
6. n. An extensive collection
7. n. A smokestack.
8. n.In digital computing.:
9. n. A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
10. n. A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine langua
11. n. A standard set of software components commonly used together on a system – for example, the combination of an operating system, web server, database an
12. n. (math) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
13. n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
14. n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
15. n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.
16. n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
17. n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
18. n.In architecture.:
19. n. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
20. n. A vertical drainpipe.
21. n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
22. n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
23. v. To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
Please stack those chairs in the corner.
24. v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
25. v. (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!
26. v. To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
27. v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
28. v. (gaming) 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.
1. n. (electronics) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.
2. n. (legal) Act of inflicting unlawful physical violence to a person, legally distinguished from assault which includes the threat of impending violence.
3. n. A coordinated group of artillery weapons.
4. n. (historical, archaic) An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.
5. n. An array of similar things.
Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
6. n. A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
7. n. (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
8. n. (chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
9. n. (music) A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.
10. n. The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
2. n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.
3. n. A mass formed in layers.
a pile of shot
4. n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
5. n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
6. n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
7. n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of elec
8. n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
9. n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
10. n. (figuratively) A list or league
11. v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.
12. v. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
We piled the camel with our loads.
13. v. To add something to a great number.
14. v. (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
15. v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
16. n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
17. n. The head of an arrow or spear.
18. n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
19. n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
20. v. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
21. n. (usually in plural) A hemorrhoid.
22. n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly , now treated as a collective singular.)
23. n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
Let's flip a coin. What do you choose? Heads or tails?
2. n. (Habillement) Queue-de-pie, frac ; habit (familier) (3: Partie de l'habillement de cérémonie qui est ouverte par-devant et qui a des pans par-derrière).
1. n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
Most primates have a tail and fangs.
2. n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
3. n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
4. n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
5. n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
6. n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
7. n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
8. n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
9. n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
10. n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
11. n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
12. n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
A sequence(a_n) is said to be frequently0 if every tail of the sequence contains0.
13. n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
14. n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
15. n. (slang) Sexual intercourse.
I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
16. n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
17. n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
18. n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
19. n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
20. n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
21. n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
22. n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
23. n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
24. n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
25. n. (mining) A tailing.
26. n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
27. n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
28. v. To follow and observe surreptitiously.
Tail that car!
29. v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
30. v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
This vessel tails downstream.
31. v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
2. n. (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
3. n. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
4. n. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
5. n. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
6. n. (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
7. n. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
8. n. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
9. n. (obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
10. n. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
11. n. (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
12. n. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
13. n. (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
14. n. (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
15. n. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
16. n. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.
Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
17. n. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
18. n. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
19. n. (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
20. n. (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
21. n. (architecture) A cella.
22. n. (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins
2. adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
3. adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or not visible at all.
That girl is completely flat on both sides.
4. adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
5. adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
Your A string is too flat.
6. adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
7. adj. Uninteresting.
The party was a bit flat.
8. adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
9. adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
10. adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
11. adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
12. adj. (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring.
The market is flat.
The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting.
13. adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results.
I'm not going to the party and that's flat.
14. adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant
15. adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "t
Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.
16. adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
17. adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
18. adj. (authorship figuratively, esp. of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
The author created the site to flesh out the books' flatter characters, who were actually quite well developed in her own mind.
19. adv. So as to be flat.
Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.
20. adv. Bluntly.
I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat.
21. adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
He can run a mile in four minutes flat.
22. adv. Completely.
I am flat broke this month.
23. adv. Directly; flatly.
24. adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
25. n. An area of level ground.
26. n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
27. n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
28. n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
29. n. (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
30. n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
31. n. The flat part of something:
32. n. (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
33. n. The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
34. n. A wide, shallow container.
a flat of strawberries
35. n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
36. n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
37. n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
38. n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
39. n. (rail, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
40. n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
41. n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
42. n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
43. n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop.
44. v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
45. v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
46. v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
47. v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
48. v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
49. v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
50. n. (chiefly British, New England, New Zealand, and Australian, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving.
2. adj. (colloquial) Intelligent.
My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old.
3. adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it.
a sharp hill; a face with sharp features
4. adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
5. adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone.
6. adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated.
7. adj. Sudden and intense.
A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.
8. adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books.
9. adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
a sharp dealer; a sharp customer
10. adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
You'll need sharp aim to make that shot.
11. adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
sharp criticism; When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out.
12. adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
You look so sharp in that tuxedo!
13. adj. Observant; alert; acute.
Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!
14. adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine.
15. adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve
16. adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number.
17. adj. (chess) Tactical; risky.
18. adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air
19. adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
21. adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
22. adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
23. adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
24. adv. (notcomp) Exactly.
I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.
25. adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes.
26. n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).
Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
27. n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
28. n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps.
29. n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)
30. n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.
31. n. A sharp tool or weapon.
32. n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
33. n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
34. n. A dishonest person; a cheater.
The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see.
This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp.
35. n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
36. n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
37. n. (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
38. n. (slang) An expert.
39. n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
40. v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
41. v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
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