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Stack   /stæk/   Listen
noun
Stack  n.  
1.
A large and to some degree orderly pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. "But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack."
2.
Hence: An orderly pile of any type of object, indefinite in quantity; used especially of piles of wood. A stack is usually more orderly than a pile "Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height."
3.
Specifically: A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (Eng.)
4.
Hence: A large quantity; as, a stack of cash. (Informal)
5.
(Arch.)
(a)
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
(b)
Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
6.
(Computer programming)
(a)
A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
(b)
A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
7.
pl. The section of a library containing shelves which hold books less frequently requested.
Stack of arms (Mil.), a number of muskets or rifles set up together, with the bayonets crossing one another, forming a sort of conical self-supporting pile.
to blow one's stacks to become very angry and lose one's self-control, and especially to display one's fury by shouting.


verb
Stack  v. t.  (past & past part. stacked; pres. part. stacking)  
1.
To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
2.
Specifically: To place in a vertical arrangement so that each item in a pile is resting on top of another item in the pile, except for the bottom item; as, to stack the papers neatly on the desk; to stack the bricks.
3.
To select or arrange dishonestly so as to achieve an unfair advantage; as, to stack a deck of cards; to stack a jury with persons prejudiced against the defendant.
To stack arms (Mil.), to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile.





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"Stack" Quotes from Famous Books



... this way and that, poking its nose up and trying the roof of its prison. She noticed its snout was raw from thrusting between the wire, and she wished she could get in to kill it. She did not know that it was a mother rat with young ones outside squeaking faintly in the stack of mangel-wurzels; she did not know, as it hopped round and round, that its beady eyes were glittering with a great agony, and that the Mother of all was powerless to break down a mere wire or two and ...
— Lying Prophets • Eden Phillpotts
... that master ever conceived anything more awful than the scene and circumstance of the infernal orgies of those witches and warlocks. What Zolaesque realism there is! In the line, 'The grey hairs yet stack to the heft,' all the gruesomeness of murder is compressed into a distich. Yet the horrible details are controlled and unified in the powerful imagination of the poet. We believe Dr. Blacklock was right in thinking that this poem, though Burns had never written another syllable, would have ...
— Robert Burns - Famous Scots Series • Gabriel Setoun
... all the cattle are slain. But if thou thinkest the price be fair,—thy brethren wait to sup. The hound is kin to the jackal spawn,—howl, dog, and 20 call them up! And if thou thinkest the price be high, in steer and gear and stack, Give me my father's mare again, and I'll fight my own ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... I have a rotten hand!" confessed Colonel Bouncer, puffing his cheeks. "But you old bluffers can't drive me out of any place; so I'll trail." And he measured up to Courtney's stack. "What's Gamble's ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester
... again," he explained, sadly, in answer to Gordon's look of inquiry. "He wants to know when I am going to stop running away from the wire. He has a stack of messages to send, he says, but I guess he'd better wait and take your copy first; don't ...
— The Exiles and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis


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