stack
//stæk//
Forms
- Plural
- stacks
- present (v1)
- stack
- past (v2)
- stacked
- past participle (v3)
- stacked
- present participle
- stacking
- 3rd person singular
- stacks
Definitions
1.A pile.
- But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
- Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
- She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
2.A smokestack.
- The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [..] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
- 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.
3.In computing.
- A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.
- A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites.
- 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.
4.A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
1.To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
- This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
2.To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
- Many citizens support the recent attacks on democracy, and those who don’t face a system stacked against them.
3.To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
4.To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
- Please stack those chairs in the corner.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4932
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).