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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

... no other. He attacks the largest hawk or eagle in their defense with a resolution truly astonishing, so that all of them respect him;" and, further, "He is valued in Carolina and Georgia for the destruction of mice. He sits on the fence and watches the stacks of rice, and darts upon them, also ...

— Upon The Tree-Tops • Olive Thorne Miller

... sensation of a blow on the ear. Night was falling as we came back to Dunkirk to sleep (for no beds were ready at Furnes), and we passed many motor vehicles of every description going out to Furnes. Some of them were filled with bread, and one saw stacks of loaves filling to the roof some once beautifully appointed motor. Now ...

— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... nears it. The monster, sure now of its prey, gives a fierce howl of triumph. Terror lends the victim strength. It turns toward the farm-house; it struggles through the banks of snow; it leaps the low palings, where, beside great straw-stacks, the cattle of the farm are herded. It ...

— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo

... immediately upon this drift of leaves, and, as Bates passed it, he glanced through the uncurtained glass, as if the fact that it was really empty was so hard for him to believe that it needed this additional evidence. Then the stacks of fire-wood in front of the house were all that remained to be searched, and Bates walked round, looking into the narrow aisles between them, looking at the same time down the hill, as if it might be possible ...

— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall

... the white-capped King Alfred baking his cakes in the window, but merely as a fixture, as she adored the mute stacks of clean plates and the piles of ...

— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells

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