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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.
- (computing) A linear data structure in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
- (computing) A portion of memory in a computer occupied by a data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- (geology) Coastal landform. A large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- (context, library) Compactly spaced bookshelf, bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- (figurative) A large amount of an object.
- (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
- (architecture) A vertical drain pipe.
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.
- (card games) 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!
- (poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
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