stack
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1. stack - Noun
2. stack - Adjective
3. stack - Verb
4. Stack - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
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.
A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
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.
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It's unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money.
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
You ate something yesterday.You sure?"asked Simon Jace shrugged."Well,I wouldnt swear on a stack of Bibles.I think it was yesterday,though.
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
A stack can be eaten in cakes.
It is easy to collect ears of corn under, beside a stack.