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noun
- (usually, in plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
verb (separat, ing)
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
- Separate the articles from the headings.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- If the kids get too noisy, them for a few minutes.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- The sauce will if you don't keep stirring.
adjective
- apart, Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- This chair can be disassembled into five pieces.
- (context, followed by "from") Not together (with); not united (to).
- I try to keep my personal life from work.
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noun - A work, as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end.
adjective - Having to do with or arranged in a series.
- The w:serial killer, killer had a string of victims across seven states.
- Published or produced in installments.
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noun
- an abbreviated form of entry for a book in a list or catalog that usually gives only the author's name, the title in brief, the date and place of publication, and the publisher's or printer's name.
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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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noun
- (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- (countable) A small open-fronted shop.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- Rabbit eases from the king-size bed, goes into their bathroom with its rose-colored one-piece Fiberglas tub and shower stall, and urinates into the toilet of a matching rose porcelain. - "Rabbit at Rest", by John Updike
- (countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage.
- (aeronautics) loss, Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded.
verb
- (intransitive) To come to a standstill.
- (intransitive) (aeronautics) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in total loss of lift.
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