Dictionary Definition
stack
Noun
1 an orderly pile
2 (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"; "it must have cost
plenty" [syn: batch,
deal, flock, good deal,
great
deal, hatful,
heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a
little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum,
wad, whole lot,
whole
slew]
3 a list in which the next item to be removed is
the item most recently stored (LIFO) [syn: push-down
list, push-down
stack]
4 a large tall chimney through which combustion
gases and smoke can be evacuated [syn: smokestack]
5 a storage device that handles data so that the
next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
[syn: push-down
storage, push-down
store]
Verb
1 load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with
boxes"
2 arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the
fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: pile, heap]
3 arrange the order of so as to increase one's
winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /stæk/
- Rhymes with: -æk
Noun
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
- A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- A smokestack.
- A linear data structure in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
- A portion of memory in a computer occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- Coastal landform. A large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- In the context of "library": Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- A large amount of an object.
- A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- The amount of money a player has on the table.
- A vertical drain pipe.
Translations
computing: data structure
Verb
- To place one or more objects or material in the form of a stack
or on an existing stack.
- Please stack those chairs in the corner.
- To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- This is the third hand in a row you've drawn a four-of-a-kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
- To take all the money another player currently has on the
table.
- I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
Translations
To place objects or material in the form of a
stack
- Finnish: pinota
To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular
manner
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Computing
- Stack (data structure), a data structure based on Last In, First Out (LIFO)
- Call stack of a program, also known as a function stack, execution stack, control stack, or simply the stack
- Protocol stack, a particular software implementation of a computer networking protocol suite
- Solution stack, set of software subsystems or components needed to deliver a fully functional solution
- Stacks (software), a Dock feature found on Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard"
Mathematics
- Stack (descent theory), general category-theoretical concept to formalise "pull-back" operations in geometry and algebra
- Algebraic stack, a generalisation of scheme and algebraic space in algebraic geometry; a specific type of stack (descent theory)
Miscellanea
- Chimney, in the term "smoke stack"
- Flue gas stacks, the industrial terminology for an industrial plant chimney
- Stack (geology), a large vertical column of rock in the sea
- The Stack, the interchange of I-10 and I-17 in Phoenix, Arizona
- Brian 'Stack' Stevens, a Cornish rugby player
- Stacks (rapper), the stage name of the rapper Yannique Barker born 1985.
- An amplifier stack, as used in guitar terminology
- Flesh-n-Bone who is also known as "stack"
- Stack interchange, a type of freeway interchange
- Stack(person)
stack in Bulgarian: Стек
stack in Czech: Zásobník
stack in German: Stack
stack in Esperanto: Stako
stack in French: Stack
stack in Korean: 스택 (동음이의)
stack in Hungarian: Verem (egyértelműsítő
lap)
stack in Japanese: スタック (曖昧さ回避)
stack in Slovenian: Sklad
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abundance, accumulate, accumulation, add up,
adulterate, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, agree, amass, amassment, amount, anger, anthill, archives, armory, array, arsenal, atelier, attic, backlog, bag, bale, bank, bank up, barrel, basement, batch, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, book end,
book support, book table, book tray, book truck, bookcase, bookholder, bookrack, bookrest, bookshelf, bookstack, bookstand, bottle, box, budget, bundle, bunker, burden, buttery, can, cargo dock, cellar, check out, chest, chimney, clamp, closet, cock, collect, collection, commissariat, commissary, compare, conservatory, considerable, cook, cornucopia, crate, crib, cumulation, cupboard, deal, deposit, depository, depot, dock, doctor, drawer, drift, dump, dune, embankment, exchequer, fake, fill, flue, flue pipe, folder, folio, freight, fumarole, funnel, glory hole, gobs, godown, good deal, great deal,
haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, heaps, hill, hoard, hold, host, hutch, inventory, jibe, juggle, lade, larder, lashings, library, load, loads, locker, loft, lot, lots, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, make sense, manipulate, mass, material, materials, materiel, measure up, mess, mint, molehill, mound, mountain, mow, multitude, munitions, number, office, oodles, pack, pack away, peck, pile, pile up, piles, plant, plenitude, plenty, pocket, portfolio, pot, profusion, provisionment, provisions, pyramid, quantity, quite a little,
rack, raft, rafts, rage, rant, rations, repertoire, repertory, repository, reservoir, retouch, revolving bookcase,
rick, rig, sack, sail loft, salt, scads, sea, shelf, ship, sight, slew, slews, smokeshaft, smokestack, snowdrift, sophisticate, spate, squirrel away, stack room,
stack up, stacks,
stash, stock, stock room, stock-in-trade,
stockpile, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, stores, stovepipe, stow, studio, study, supplies, supply, supply base, supply
depot, supply on hand, swarm, tamper with, tank, throng, tidy sum, treasure, treasure house,
treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, volume, wad, wads, warehouse, whole slew, wine
cellar, workroom