Stack

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  • noun. A large, usually conical pile of straw or fodder arranged for outdoor storage.
  • noun. An orderly pile, especially one arranged in layers: synonym: heap.
  • noun. A section of memory and its associated registers used for temporary storage of information in which the item most recently stored is the first to be retrieved.
  • noun. A group of three rifles supporting each other, butt downward and forming a cone.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A chimney or flue.
  • noun. A group of chimneys arranged together.
  • noun. A vertical exhaust pipe, as on a ship or locomotive.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An extensive arrangement of bookshelves.
  • noun. The area of a library in which most of the books are shelved.
  • noun. A stackup.
  • noun. An English measure of coal or cut wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3.06 cubic meters).
  • noun. A large quantity.
  • intransitive verb. To arrange in a stack; pile.
  • intransitive verb. To load or cover with stacks or piles.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To prearrange the order of (a deck of cards) so as to increase the chance of winning.
  • intransitive verb. To prearrange or fix unfairly so as to favor a particular outcome.
  • intransitive verb. To direct (aircraft) to circle at different altitudes while waiting to land.
  • intransitive verb. To form a stack.
  • phrasal verb. To measure up or equal.
  • phrasal verb. To make sense; add up.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pile or build in the form of a stack; make into a regularly formed pile: as, to stack grain.
  • To make up (cards) in a designed manner, so as to secure an unfair advantage; pack.
  • An obsolete or dialectal preterit of stick (and stick).
  • noun. A pile of grain in the sheaf, or of hay, straw, pease, etc., gathered into a circular or rectangular form, often, when of large size, coming to a point or ridge at the top, and thatched to protect it from the weather.
  • noun. A pile of sticks, billets, poles, or cordwood; formerly, also, a pyre, or burial pile.
  • noun. A pile or group of other objects in orderly position.
  • noun. A number of funnels or chimneys standing together.
  • noun. A single chimney or passageway for smoke; the chimney or funnel of a locomotive or steam-vessel: also called smokestack. See cuts under passenger-engine and puddling-furnace.
  • noun. A high detached rock; a columnar rock; a precipitous rock rising out of the sea.
  • noun. A customary unit of volume for fire-wood and coal, generally 4 cubic yards (108 cubic feet). The three-quarter stack in parts of Derbyshire is said to be 105 or 106 cubic feet.
  • noun. plural A large quantity; “lots”: as, stacks of money.
  • noun. In gambling and banking games, twenty chips or counters.
  • noun. A group of retorts set together in the furnace for the manufacture of coal-gas.
  • noun. That part of a blast-furnace which extends from the boshes to the throat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile
  • transitive verb. To place in a vertical arrangement so that each item in a pile is resting on top of another item in the pile, except for the bottom item.
  • transitive verb. To select or arrange dishonestly so as to achieve an unfair advantage.
  • transitive verb. to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile.
  • noun. A large and to some degree orderly 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.
  • noun. An orderly pile of any type of object, indefinite in quantity; -- used especially of piles of wood. A stack is usually more orderly than a pile
  • noun. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
  • noun. A large quantity.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
  • noun. Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
  • Word Usage
    "To get it to work, you would have to write this class Inbox def initialize (stack) @stack = stack end def add (message) #This works"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    pile  
    cross-reference
    Form
    stacked  stacking  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    arrange  lade  laden  list  listing  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adak  Black  Braque  Chirac  Jack  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    array  basket  bit  block  box  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    stacked  stacking  stacks