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stack English

Meaning stack meaning

What does stack mean?
Definitions in simple English

stack Noun

— A pile of something similar. There is a stack of books outside. Are those yours?

stack Verb

— When you stack something, you put something similar on top of one another to form a pile. I stacked up the books at one side.

stack

— noun an orderly pile — verb load or cover with stacks stack a truck with boxes — verb (= heap) arrange in stacks heap firewood around the fireplace stack your books up on the shelves — verb arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances stack the deck of cards — noun (= smokestack) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated — noun (= push-down storage) a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) — noun (= push-down list) a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) — noun (= batch, deal, lot, mint, passel, plenty, slew, 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

Synonyms stack synonyms

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stack English » English

pile heap pile up accumulate rick heap up smokestack mass mound mountain chimney wad stook push-down stack push-down list pot load cock batch shock raft push-down store push-down storage pack mess lot layer haystack hatful great deal good deal gather flue drift collect bundle bunch amass tidy sum spate slew sight sheaf shaft raise quite a little plenty pillar pick up peck

Topics stack topics

What do people use stack to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Gather
Physical actions Arrange Put

Load, pile
States Quantity Plural

Group of things

  • What words refer to a group of things that are put on top of each other?
    pile stack heap
Daily life Fire

Fuel

Conjugation stack conjugation

How do you conjugate stack?

stack · verb

Examples stack examples

How do I use stack in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There is a big stack of mail on the table.
Tom put a stack of letters on Mary's desk.
The chairs stack well.
I can't read the title of the book at the bottom of the stack from this far away.
I found a stack of old National Geographic magazines at my parents' house.
There was a stack of newspapers in the corner of the room.

Movie subtitles

Your Excellence please accept this stack at the foot of this house inflaming the courage of these rescuers that are already burning with impatience.
I wouldn't believe you or anybody else on a stack of Bibles.
Give the lady a stack of black chips.
Keep my stack, Bud.
I'll take my oath on a stack of bibles this high.
Tell Aunt Mollie I want stack cakes. and roast yearling'coon with plenty of gravy!
Can I sell you another stack, Doctor?
How would all that stack up against a right cross?
Go on. Stack'em up.
That's how you try a case out of court and stack the evidence.
Give me another stack of chips.
Short stack.
How does it stack up against Maine?
Alice, give me a stack of buckwheat cakes with plenty of molasses and a steak, rare. A couple hunks of bacon if you got some and a big pot of coffee.
I'm looking for a needle in a hay stack.
I wouldn't believe you on a stack of Bibles.
You take charge. Muster the prisoners and stack the weapons forward.
How do you think Ohio women stack up against-?
We're gonna divvy up a stack of money tonight, huh?
I wouldn't believe a word you said if you swore it on a stack of Bibles.
Stack that wood down there, then get back to work.
Stack.
Mrs. Blandings, on that sewing room, the way you have it there the chimney stack would come up through the room leaving you with the shape of a square doughnut.
That place is a stack of dynamite.
Here goes my stack.
Turned out a stack of estimates a foot high.
I'll buy a stack.
And that I peed in the coal stack?
One stack of blacks.
Then he gave me this stack of chips.
It is time, general, to stack our arms.
Stack your arms and disband your army.
That Mrs. Page has blown her stack at last.
I'm sure you've got a stack of ideas.
Anyone in his right mind would blow his stack.
I have a stack of them for sale.

News and current affairs

Each country is interested in knowing whether its policies and institutions stack up against those of other nations in the capacity to achieve and sustain economic growth.
In the egg industry, hens can barely move at all, because they are crammed into wire cages, which makes it possible to stack them in tiers, one above the other.
This is exacerbated by their strong anisotropy - the materials have a quasi-two-dimensional structure consisting of a weakly coupled stack of conducting sheets.
Demagogues stack prejudices atop half-truths, and any attempt to connect discussion with reality is shot through with contemptuous accusations of dishonesty and self-interest.

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