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Stacks

noun

1.

A large number or amount. Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads. "She amassed stacks of newspapers"

2.

Storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored.

Stack

noun

1.

An orderly pile.

2.

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad. "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"

3.

A list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO). Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack.

4.

A large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated. Synonym: smokestack.

5.

A storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO). Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store.

verb

(past & past part. stacked; pres. part. stacking)

1.

Load or cover with stacks.

2.

Arrange in stacks. Synonyms: heap, pile. "Stack your books up on the shelves"

3.

Arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances.

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"Stacks" Quotes from Famous Books

... a mind to be gaoled at such a glorious time in the history of Timber Town. I want to get more gold, stacks ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... asparagus, stuck their magnificent heads out of the ground. Blinking drowsily at yonder villainous mountain, the summit of which is eternally crowned with a halo of thin white smoke, such as we are accustomed to see arising from the stacks of chemical factories, the confident shepherd would lazily implore his patron saint to enjoin that unreliable devilish force within lest the dolce far niente of the afternoon be disturbed, for siestas are among the most important functions in the life of that ...

— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius

... not to be at the office," she began, thinking he had come to persuade her to return. "Sit down. Well—you see," indicating the stacks of addressed envelopes—"I really can't come back until after the New Year. Do you mind? There is a great deal to be seen to here, and I feel I've earned the right to loaf for a week. I want particularly to make the ...

— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley

... then Wolfgar pointed out the surrounding hillsides. On them, cleared of their vegetation, our modern civilization stood gaunt and efficient. Towers, aerials, landing stages, aerial trams, factories, tall stacks over the dynamo houses belching thick black smoke, which artificial wind-generators carefully blew away ...

— Tarrano the Conqueror • Raymond King Cummings

... San Carlos and Apache reservations, and at last there seemed promise of a general burial of the hatchet. At last there was hope, wrote Stannard, that the Bennett boys would be restored. Good news, too, and stacks of mail, had come from Prescott and from far distant homes, but the bit of news that appealed to all but a chosen few at Camp Almy, as by all means the most important and welcome, was "The paymaster's ...

— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King

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