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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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"Stack" Quotes from Famous Books



... mistaken. Though we had lost one boat and some of our men, many of them being captured, I learned that the Albemarle had sunk in fifteen minutes after the explosion of the torpedo, only her shield and smoke-stack being left out of the water to mark the spot where a mighty iron-clad had succumbed to a few pounds ...
— In the Track of the Troops • R.M. Ballantyne
... to clear up much," was his next remark, looking pensively at a table from which they had swept everything but one biscuit and a lonely little baked potato which had what Marjorie termed "flaws," and they had had to avoid. "But then, I suppose you might say there wasn't much to clear. We'll stack these dishes and let Pierre or somebody wash 'em. Us ...
— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer
... and revealed, close to a precipice, Nate's home. The log house with its chimney of clay and sticks, the barn of ruder guise, the fodder-stack, the ash-hopper, and the rail fence were all imposed in high relief against the crimson west and the purpling ranges in the distance. The little cabin was quite alone in the world. No other house, no field, no clearing, was visible in all the vast expanse of mountains ...
— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)
... hold to the big blundering weed with the other. Fortunately the pony ran toward the wagon. As they came up we could see little but tumbleweed and pony legs, and it looked like nothing so much as a hay-stack running away on its own legs. When the pony came up to the wagon she stopped so suddenly that Ollie went over her head. But he still clung to the weed, and struck the ground inside of it. He jumped up, still in ...
— The Voyage of the Rattletrap • Hayden Carruth
... A.W.O.L. Thereafter for an hour the Wildcat sat at the Soopreem table, watching his stack of greenbacks melt out before him on four-to-one obligations incurred by the absent ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley


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