Stack (noun)
A pile.
Stack (noun)
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
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.”
Stack (noun)
A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
Stack (noun)
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
Stack (noun)
A smokestack.
Stack (noun)
In digital computing.
Stack (noun)
An extensive collection
Stack (noun)
A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
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.
Stack (noun)
A sheaves.
Stack (noun)
A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
Stack (noun)
Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
Stack (noun)
A large amount of an object.
“They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.”
Stack (noun)
A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
Stack (noun)
The amount of money a player has on the table.
Stack (noun)
In architecture.
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.
Stack (noun)
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
Stack (noun)
A fall or crash, a prang.
Stack (noun)
A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
Stack (verb)
To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
“Please stack those chairs in the corner.”
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!”
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!”
Stack (verb)
To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
“The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.”
Stack (verb)
To crash; to fall.
“Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.”
Heap (noun)
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
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”
Heap (noun)
A great number or large quantity of things.
Heap (noun)
A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
Heap (noun)
Memory that is dynamically allocated.
“You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.”
Heap (noun)
A dilapidated place or vehicle.
“My first car was an old heap.”
Heap (noun)
A lot, a large amount
“Thanks a heap!”
Heap (verb)
To pile in a heap.
“He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.”
Heap (verb)
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
Heap (verb)
To supply in great quantity.
“They heaped praise upon their newest hero.”