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US
/ˈstæk/
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[ UK /stˈæk/ ]
[ UK /stˈæk/ ]
VERB
-
arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
stack the deck of cards -
load or cover with stacks
stack a truck with boxes -
arrange in stacks
stack your books up on the shelves
heap firewood around the fireplace
NOUN
- 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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(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market - a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
- an orderly pile
How To Use stack In A Sentence
- And if you can develop a machine to look for the needle in the haystack and what you come out with from having the machine sift through the haystack is a box of straw, where maybe the needle's in there and maybe a few bonus needles, then that's a whole lot better than having humans try to sift through a haystack. Wired Top Stories
- She recommends that retailers merchandise the fixture in four vertical segments according to absorbency and stack the brands horizontally.
- Polar Instruments has added a flex-rigid PCB design option to the Speedstack PCB layer-stackup design system. Electronicstalk - electronics industry news
- This is then stacked into windrows or movable racks under a roofed area, and the piles are periodically aerated.
- He stacked the books on pedestals, making three mysterious columns on one side of the shadowy gallery, two on the other.
- There's been a steady decline in smokestack industries such as shipbuilding and steel.
- The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed. The Stone Monkey
- Each thread includes a unique program counter, process stack, and set of processor registers.
- The player on the left of the dealer takes the top card from his or her stack and lays at face up on the table.
- He didn't know how long he had been standing there, stacking the cuboids one on top of the other.