stack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.
Inflected forms:
form: stacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pile.
pos: noun
examples: But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
gloss: A pile.
pos: noun
examples: Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
gloss: A pile.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;
gloss: A pile.
pos: noun
gloss: A pile.
pos: noun
examples: 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'.
“We said, 'Maybe we could come up with a couple of characters doing jokes,'” Correll recalled in 1972. “We had a whole stack of jokes we used to do in these home talent shows
Going back to an earlier question, which I think is very important, this question of how you use skills. It is no good having a great stack of skills in a workplace if the employer does not utilise them properly
gloss: A smokestack.
pos: noun
examples: With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
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.
gloss: In computing.
pos: noun
gloss: In computing.
pos: noun
tags: often
with-definite-article
examples: 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.
gloss: In computing.
pos: noun
examples: A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.
gloss: In computing.
pos: noun
examples: A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites.
gloss: A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
pos: noun
gloss: A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
pos: noun
examples: A boat's-crew landed one time upon one of the stacks with the intention of attacking the seals.
gloss: Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
pos: noun
examples: You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks.
gloss: A large amount of an object.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.
gloss: A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
pos: noun
gloss: The amount of money a player has on the table.
pos: noun
gloss: In architecture.
pos: noun
gloss: In architecture.
pos: noun
gloss: A fall or crash, a prang.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: "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."
Fan-shot footage of Bieber’s big stack (not a euphemism) sees the pop singer trying to adjust his pants during a concert in the Canadian city of Saskatoon on Thursday night, 16th June, before an audible “THWACK” can be heard as he falls off the stage.
gloss: A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
pos: noun
gloss: A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
pos: noun
gloss: The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
pos: noun
examples: I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.
gloss: To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please stack those chairs in the corner.
James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
gloss: To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
gloss: To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: to be stacked against (someone)
The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
In 2015 the country's military-stacked national assembly impeached her and banned her from political office over the scheme, which her government introduced after she had campaigned in 2011 promising to support the rural poor.
Many citizens support the recent attacks on democracy, and those who don’t face a system stacked against them.
gloss: To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
gloss: To crash; to fall.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
US
slang
transitive
examples: Jim couldn't make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43,
Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I′ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.
Marmalade: Who stacked the car? (pointing to Saloon) Fangio here. / Jock: (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.
Eventually he sideswiped a bus and forced other cars to collide, and as he finally stacked the car up on a bridge abutment, he passed out, perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps from his head hitting the windshield.
2007, Martin Chipperfield, slut talk, Night Falling, 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,
oh shit danny, i stacked the car / ran into sally, an old school friend / you stacked the car? / so now i need this sally′s address / for the insurance, danny says
gloss: To operate cumulatively.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To have excessive ink transfer.
pos: verb
Related words: stackable
stacked
stack it
unstack
Derived words: blow one's stack
bookstack
cactus stack
call stack
chimney stack
deep stack
doublestack
downstack
drystack
effective stack size
flare stack
font stack
full-stack
full stack
half stack
haystack
holding stack
interstack
keep it a stack
libo stack
mack
ministack
multistack
non-stack
peatstack
piezostack
poststack
progressive stack
protocol stack
saguaro stack
sea stack
sea-stack
short stack
smash the stack
smokestack
soil stack
solution stack
spaghetti stack
speed stack
stackage
stackback
stack-based
stack chips
stack effect
stack frame
stackful
stackgarth
stack-guard
stack interchange
stackless
stack light
stack machine
stack process
stack rank
stack ranking
stack room
stackroom
stack smashing
stacks of wax
stacks on
stacks on the mill
stackstand
stack talk
stack trace
stack truck
stack-upon-the-kill
stack-upo'-the-kill
stacky
strawstack
substack
superstack
swear on a stack
swear on a stack of Bibles
talent stack
technology stack
tech stack
upstack
vent stack
weight stack
wheatstack
misstack
prestack
destack
overstack
restack
stackability
stack-and-pack
stacker
stack off
stack the cards
stack the deck
stack z's
unstack
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: rafte
lang: Arabic
word: كَوْمَة
roman: kawma
lang: Arabic
word: كُومَة
roman: kūma
lang: Arabic
word: كومة
roman: kōma
lang: Armenian
word: կույտ
roman: kuyt
lang: Azerbaijani
word: taya
lang: Belarusian
word: сто́пка
roman: stópka
lang: Belarusian
word: стос
roman: stos
lang: Belarusian
word: ку́па
roman: kúpa
lang: Bulgarian
word: куп
roman: kup
lang: Bulgarian
word: ку́пчина
roman: kúpčina
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 堆
roman: duī
lang: Czech
word: stoh
lang: Czech
word: štos
lang: Czech
word: kupa
lang: Dutch
word: stapel
lang: Esperanto
word: stako
lang: Esperanto
word: aro
lang: Estonian
word: virn
lang: Estonian
word: kuhi
lang: Estonian
word: pinu
lang: Estonian
word: patakas
lang: Estonian
word: lasu
lang: Finnish
word: pino
lang: Finnish
word: keko
lang: Finnish
word: kasa
lang: Finnish
word: läjä
lang: French
word: pile
lang: Galician
word: pía
lang: Galician
word: morea
lang: Galician
word: meda
lang: Georgian
word: დასტა
roman: dasṭa
lang: German
word: Stapel
lang: German
word: Feime
lang: German
word: Schober
lang: German
word: Diemen
lang: Greek
word: στοίβα
roman: stoíva
lang: Hebrew
word: ערמה
roman: aremá
lang: Hindi
word: धुआँरा
roman: dhuā̃rā
lang: Hungarian
word: boglya
lang: Irish
word: stáca
lang: Italian
word: pila
lang: Italian
word: bica
lang: Italian
word: balla di fieno
lang: Japanese
word: 塚
roman: tsuka
lang: Khmer
word: គំនរ
roman: kumnɔɔ
lang: Korean
word: 무더기
roman: mudeogi
lang: Middle English
word: stak
lang: Mongolian
word: бухал
roman: buxal
lang: Persian
word: پشته
roman: pošte
lang: Polish
word: stos
lang: Polish
word: sterta
lang: Portuguese
word: pilha
lang: Quechua
word: pirwa
lang: Romanian
word: căpiță
lang: Romanian
word: stivă
lang: Russian
word: сто́пка
roman: stópka
lang: Russian
word: ки́па
roman: kípa
lang: Russian
word: стог
roman: stog
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cruach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сто̑г
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: stȏg
lang: Sicilian
word: pila
lang: Slovak
word: stoh
lang: Slovak
word: kopa
lang: Spanish
word: pila
lang: Spanish
word: montón
lang: Spanish
word: hacina
lang: Spanish
word: arcina
lang: Spanish
word: almiar
lang: Spanish
word: rimero
lang: Tajik
word: тӯда
roman: tüda
lang: Turkish
word: yığın
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ییغین
roman: yığın
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كومه
roman: küme
lang: Ukrainian
word: ку́па
roman: kúpa
lang: Ukrainian
word: сто́пка
roman: stópka
lang: Ukrainian
word: стіс
roman: stis
lang: Ukrainian
word: стіг
roman: stih
lang: Uzbek
word: qalov
lang: Vietnamese
word: chồng
lang: Walloon
word: moncea
lang: Walloon
word: hopea
lang: Walloon
word: taes
lang: Walloon
word: astaplaedje
lang: Walloon
word: pile