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Stack (noun)
A pile.
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Stack (noun)
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
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Stack (noun)
A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
“Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.”
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Stack (noun)
A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
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Stack (noun)
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
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Stack (noun)
A smokestack.
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Stack (noun)
In digital computing.
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Stack (noun)
An extensive collection
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Stack (noun)
A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
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Stack (noun)
A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
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Stack (noun)
A sheaves.
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Stack (noun)
A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
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Stack (noun)
Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
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Stack (noun)
A large amount of an object.
“They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.”
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Stack (noun)
A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
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Stack (noun)
The amount of money a player has on the table.
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Stack (noun)
In architecture.
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Stack (noun)
A standard set of software components commonly used together on a system – for example, the combination of an operating system, web server, database and programming language.
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Stack (noun)
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
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Stack (noun)
A fall or crash, a prang.
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Stack (noun)
A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
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Stack (verb)
To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
“Please stack those chairs in the corner.”
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Stack (verb)
To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
“This is the third hand in a row where you’ve drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!”
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Stack (verb)
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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Stack (verb)
To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
“The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.”
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Stack (verb)
To crash; to fall.
“Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.”
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Heap (noun)
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
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Heap (noun)
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
“a heap of earth or stones”
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Heap (noun)
A great number or large quantity of things.
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Heap (noun)
A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
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Heap (noun)
Memory that is dynamically allocated.
“You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.”
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Heap (noun)
A dilapidated place or vehicle.
“My first car was an old heap.”
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Heap (noun)
A lot, a large amount
“Thanks a heap!”
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Heap (verb)
To pile in a heap.
“He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.”
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Heap (verb)
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
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Heap (verb)
To supply in great quantity.
“They heaped praise upon their newest hero.”