stack
stacks; stacked; stacking
A stack is a tidy pile, like the stack of books on your nightstand or the stack of pancakes on your plate at breakfast. You can also use stack as a verb meaning "to arrange in piles."
If you stack the dollar bills you earned from your lemonade stand, you'll eventually have a stack of dollar bills. Unlike the similar word pile, stack implies a neat, orderly bundle, rather than a messy, haphazard one. When someone "stacks the deck," they cheat in order to achieve the outcome they want—sometimes literally, by arranging a deck of cards unfairly.
Definitions of stack
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an orderly pile
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types:
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hayrick, haystack, rick
a stack of hay
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haycock
a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick
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type of:
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agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile
a collection of objects laid on top of each other
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hayrick, haystack, rick
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a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
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synonyms:
push-down storage, push-down store
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type of:
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memory device, storage device
a device that preserves information for retrieval
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memory device, storage device
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a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
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synonyms:
push-down list, push-down stack
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a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
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synonyms:
smokestack
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(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
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synonyms:
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, tidy sum, wad
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types:
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barrage, deluge, flood, flurry, inundation, torrent
an overwhelming number or amount
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haymow
a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
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type of:
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large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
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barrage, deluge, flood, flurry, inundation, torrent
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arrange in stacks
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load or cover with stacks
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arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
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