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)
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"
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 largepile 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:
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 placewood
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 realwork 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 leastrecent 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 havegiven other names to
these structures: stackshave been called push-down lists, reversion
storages, cellars, nesting stores, piles, last-in-first-out
(“LIFO”) lists, and evenyo-yo lists!
The term “stack” was originally coined by Edsger
Dijkstra, who was quite proud of it.