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Definition of 'Stack'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) stack
a more or less orderly pile or heap.

2.  stack
a large, usu. conical, circular, or rectangular pile of hay, straw, or the like.

3.  stack
Often, stacks. a set of shelves for books ranged compactly one above the other, as in a library.

4.  stack
stacks, the part of a library in which books and other holdings are stored.

5.  stack
a number of chimneys or flues grouped together.

6.  stack
a great quantity or number.

7.  stack
a radio antenna consisting of a number of components connected in a substantially vertical series.

8.  stack
a linear list, as in a computer, arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved.

9.  stack
a conical, free-standing group of three rifles placed on their butts and hooked together.

10.  stack
a group of airplanes circling over an airport awaiting their turns to land.

11.  stack
an English measure for coal and wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3 cu. m).

12.  stack
a given quantity of chips that can be bought at one time, as in poker.

13.  stack
the quantity of chips held by a player at a given point.

14. (v.t.) stack
to pile, arrange, or place in a stack.

15.  stack
to cover or load with something in stacks or piles.

16.  stack
to arrange or select unfairly in order to force a desired result:
to stack a jury.

17.  stack
to keep (incoming airplanes) flying in circles over an airport where conditions prevent immediate landings.

18. (v.i.) stack
to be arranged in or form a stack.

19.  stack
stack up,

20.  stack
to control the flight patterns of airplanes waiting to land at an airport so that each circles at a designated altitude.

21.  stack
to compare; measure up (often fol. by against).

22.  stack
to add up.

23.  stack
to arrange cards or a pack of cards so as to cheat.

24.  stack
to manipulate events, information, etc., esp. unethically, in order to achieve a desired result.

Etymology: (1250–1300; (n.) ME stak < ON stakkr haystack)

Definition of 'Stack'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) stack
an orderly pile

2. (noun) 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, stack, tidy sum, wad
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "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. (noun) push-down list, push-down stack, stack
a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)

4. (noun) smokestack, stack
a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated

5. (verb) push-down storage, push-down store, stack
a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)

6. (verb) stack
load or cover with stacks
"stack a truck with boxes"

7. (verb) stack, pile, heap
arrange in stacks
"heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"

8. (verb) stack
arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
"stack the deck of cards"

Definition of 'Stack'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) stack
a neat pile of objects
a stack of CDs/books/magazines etc.

2. stack
stacks
a lot
a family with stacks of money

3. (verb) stack
to put many things into a pile
Stack the plates up on top of each other.

Definition of 'Stack'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Stack
a large 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

2. (adj) Stack
a pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity

3. (adj) Stack
a pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet

4. (adj) Stack
a number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:

5. (adj) Stack
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. (adj) Stack
a section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved

7. (adj) Stack
a data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack

8. (noun) Stack
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

Definitions of 'Stack'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Stack
The set of things a person has to do in the future. One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack. “I'm afraid I've got real work to do, so this'll have to be pushed way down on my stack.” “I haven't done it yet because every time I pop my stack something new gets pushed.” If you are interrupted several times in the middle of a conversation, “My stack overflowed” means “I forget what we were talking about.” The implication is that more items were pushed onto the stack than could be remembered, so the least recent items were lost. The usual physical example of a stack is to be found in a cafeteria: a pile of plates or trays sitting on a spring in a well, so that when you put one on the top they all sink down, and when you take one off the top the rest spring up a bit. See also push and pop.

(The Art of Computer Programming, second edition, vol. 1, p. 236) says:

Many people who realized the importance of stacks and queues independently have given other names to these structures: stacks have been called push-down lists, reversion storages, cellars, nesting stores, piles, last-in-first-out (“LIFO”) lists, and even yo-yo lists!

The term “stack” was originally coined by Edsger Dijkstra, who was quite proud of it.

Translation of 'Stack'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a large, usually neatly shaped, pile eg of hay, straw, wood etc a haystack.
Afrikaans: stapel	Arabic: كَوْمَه مُرَتَّبَه	Bulgarian: купа сено
Brazilian: pilha	Czech: stoh; hranice	German: der Stapel
Danish: stak; -stak; stabel; -sta	Greek: θημωνιά	Estonian: kuhi, riit
Farsi: دسته	Finnish: pino	French: meule
Hebrew: עֲרֵימָה	Hindi: सजा कर रखा हुआ	Croatian: stog, plast
Hungarian: kazal	Indonesian: timbunan	Icelandic: stakkur; sáta
Italian: pila, catasta	Japanese: 積重ね	Korean: 낟가리
Lithuanian: krūva, kaugė, stirta	Latvian: kaudze; grēda; stirpa	Malay: timbunan
Dutch: mijt	Norwegian: stabel; hesje; bunke; hau	Polish: stos
Portuguese: pilha	Romanian: stog; căpiţă	Russian: стог; скирда
Slovak: stoh	Slovenian: kopica	Serbian: gomila
Swedish: stack, trave, stapel, hög	Thai: กองที่ซ้อนกันอย่างเป็นระเ	Turkish: yığın, küme
Taiwanese: 乾草堆，稻草堆，麥稈堆	Ukrainian: стіг, скирта	Urdu: گھاس بھوسے کا ڈھیر
Vietnamese: cụm, chùm, đống	Chinese: （草）堆，垛
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