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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



... 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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