STACK
\stˈak], \stˈak], \s_t_ˈa_k]\
Definitions of STACK
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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to arrange in a stack or pile; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
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a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
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a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
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a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
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load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
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a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
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a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
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load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes"
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arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"
By Princeton University
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A large 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.
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A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
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A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
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A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
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Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
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A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
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A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
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To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
By Oddity Software
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A large quantity of hay, corn, wood, etc., piled up in orderly fashion; a number of chimneys standing together; any chimney; one or more fixed frameworks containing shelves for books.
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To pile up.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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That which sticks out: a large pile of hay, grain in the sheaf, corn, wood, etc.: a number of chimneys standing together.
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To pile into a stack or stacks.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To Gather or place in a pile; pile up in a stack.
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A large orderly pile of unthreshed grain, hay, or straw.
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A vertical main smoke flue.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A large pile of hay, grain, or straw, sometimes thatched; a conical pile; a number of funnels or chimneys standing together.
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To lay in a conical or other pile; to pile wood, poles, &c. A stack of arms, a conical pile of muskets set up together on their ends. To stack arms, to set up muskets in a stack.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A large conical heap of corn in the straw, thatched on the top; a large pile of hay, straw, or wood; a number of chimneys standing together; in geol., a pillar-like rock separated from the mainland; a needle.
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To lay up in a large pile or heap.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Icelandic, German] A large pile of hay, grain, straw, and the like ;-a number of funnels or chimneys standing together ; -the chimney of a locomotive or steam-vessel;-a staff; a crutch ;-a young tree left standing while others are out down; a standard tree;-a pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
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