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Webster 1913 Edition
Stack
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
. Cowper.
Against every pillar was a
stack
of billets above a man’s height. Bacon.
3.
Specifically:
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
[Eng.]
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 smoke
. stack
of a factory; the smokestack
of a steam vesselStack
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stacked
(stăkt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
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.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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Stack
STACK
,Noun.
1.
A large conical pile of hay, grain or straw, sometimes covered with thatch. In America, the stack differs from the cock only in size, both being conical. A long pile of hay or grain is called a rick. In England, this distinction is not always observed. This word in Great Britain is sometimes applied to a pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet, and also to a pile of poles; but I believe never in America.Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a mans highth.
2.
A number of funnels or chimneys standing together. We say, a stack of chimneys; which is correct, as a chimney is a passage. But we also call the whole stack a chimney. Thus we say, the chimney rises ten feet above the roof.STACK
,Verb.
T.
1.
To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay or grain.2.
In England, to pile wood, poles, &c.Definition 2024
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See also: Stack
English
Noun
stack (plural stacks)
- (heading) A pile.
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- William Cowper (1731-1800)
- But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
- William Cowper (1731-1800)
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
- (Britain) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A smokestack.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- 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.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- (heading) In digital computing.
- A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
- A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, p.47:
- 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.
- 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, p.47:
- (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
- They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.
- (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
- (heading) In architecture.
- (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
- (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
Translations
a pile of identical objects
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computing: data structure
Verb
stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)
- (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
- 2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC:
- 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.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- 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.
- Please stack those chairs in the corner.
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- (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
- (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
- (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
- (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
- 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.
- 1984, Jack Hibberd, A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays, page 80,
- MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.
- JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.
- 2002, Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt, page 19,
- 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, **** talk, Night Falling, 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,
- oh **** 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
- Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
- 1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43,
Translations
To place objects or material in the form of a stack
Related terms
- stackable
- stacked
- unstack
- chimney stack
- protocol stack
Anagrams
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse stakkr.
Noun
stack c
- a stack (e.g. of hay), a pile (e.g. of manure)
- an ant farm, an ant colony
- a stack (in computer memory)
Declension
| Inflection of stack | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | stack | stacken | stackar | stackarna |
| Genitive | stacks | stackens | stackars | stackarnas |
Related terms
- gödselstack
- höstack
- myrstack
See also
- stackare
- stapel
Verb
stack
- past tense of sticka.