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1. n. A pile.: | |
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. | |