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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stack
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pile/stack of boxes
▪ There was a pile of boxes in the street outside the house.
chimney stack
the odds are stacked against sb (=there are a lot of difficulties that may prevent someone’s success)
▪ They may be able to build a life for themselves, but the odds are stacked against them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
tall
▪ Even official sources now accept that tall stacks tend to increase long-range transport of pollution.
▪ Mike was slicing his fork through a tall stack of pancakes covered with pretty syrup.
▪ Such episodes are commoner than the planners of tall stacks assumed.
▪ The only traffic in the whole area consisted of chugging yellow Navy tugboats which emitted heavy black smoke from their tall stacks.
■ NOUN
chimney
▪ Due to high winds the chimney stack became unsafe.
▪ There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.
▪ The chimney stack was too high to consider pushing it down, so I had to try fishing it out.
▪ Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack.
▪ Above the kitchen chimney stack, the sky quavers on a high inaudible note.
▪ Every room has a fireplace and the double chimney stack rises through the steeply-pitched hipped roof.
▪ Nearly falling off the roof in fright, Hilary grabbed frantically at the chimney stack to keep her balance.
soil
▪ From the gully a pipe leads to an inspection chamber which may also have the soil stack connected to it.
■ VERB
blow
▪ Tristan last blew its stack in 1961, forcing a complete evacuation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blow your top/stack/cool
▪ My father blew his top when I told him I was quitting medical school.
▪ I used to get so angry on the set that one day I just blew my top and hit John Huston.
▪ It had me rolling on the floor to see Schmeichel blowing his top at the scum defence.
▪ It was unusual for Hauser to blow his top.
▪ Striker Slaven blew his top after being axed from the side which grabbed a draw at Bristol City in midweek.
▪ Then Nature blows her top, just to remind us.
▪ Then suddenly he blew his top while walking down the street one day.
▪ Tristan last blew its stack in 1961, forcing a complete evacuation.
▪ Whether the Ipswich directors who watched him blow his top with the unwitting journalist believe that is debatable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stack of sales brochures
▪ Next to the bottles was a tall stack of plastic cups.
▪ The whole stack fell over, and half the plates got broken.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A stack of copies was piled up at the entrance to the Arts Lab.
▪ After he had gone, she stared blankly at the stack of boxes he had left.
▪ He built up neat stacks in order of priority, slipped rubber bands around them, dropped them in his briefcase.
▪ I said hello and sat down on a stack of C-ration cases.
▪ Impale each stack with a bamboo stick to hold the bales in place.
▪ Manion turned off the engine, picked up his stack of envelopes, and locked the car.
▪ Next, Heath argues, CPU-specific issues like register stacks and context switching need to be standardised.
▪ The only limit placed on the depth of nesting is the room available for the stack.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
neatly
▪ Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade.
▪ The wedding platform was made of slats which rested on top of neatly stacked bricks.
▪ Wood is stacked neatly along one wall of his workroom.
▪ It should be neatly stacked and clearly labelled.
▪ On one level are what appear to be rolls of cardboard, stacked neatly.
up
▪ At the very least, he would have to reckon on the 21 votes in the Cabinet being stacked up against him.
▪ When he is hearing a case, the phone messages stack up.
▪ On the far side, by the window, there were plates stacked up in the sink.
▪ Cars stack up behind every bus, while passengers queue to pay their fares.
▪ They got it all stacked up against you before you walk through the door.
▪ When old Aaron Tyson from Limestone Hill sold to the greengrocer's the turnips he'd stacked up for his sheep.
▪ Twisted, starved, naked bodies stacked up like cordwood or tossed into great open pits.
■ NOUN
box
▪ In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
▪ He proceeded slowly, hands clenched in his pockets, eyes scanning labels on the stacked boxes.
deck
▪ The real blame lies with the licence granted to employers by a statutory regime which stacks every deck in their favour.
▪ One set of figures shook me awake: Zorig had been right about the stacked deck.
pile
▪ Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic.
▪ Ready to fire, the shell was stacked on a pile near the gun crew.
▪ When they had sorted the collection completely, they stacked each set in piles.
▪ Inside the truck I could see what looked like a thousand frozen turkeys stacked up like a pile of stones.
▪ During the morning the accumulated household junk had been stacked in piles beside the steps.
▪ Bunches of bananas are stacked in tidy piles.
plate
▪ Then the legs would be stacked on plates and the remainder of the meat sliced to make sandwiches.
▪ He had undressed forty-five-pound weight bars, stacked plates, and dumbbells on the floor.
▪ Shirley began to stack the plates.
shelf
▪ The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort.
▪ Some wear casual shirts and jeans, their Reeboks and Nikes stacked in shoe shelves by the door.
▪ The business grew Topsy-like as Dixons stacked its shelves with electrical and photographic equipment from low-cost suppliers in the Far East.
▪ They were stacked on the shelf.
wall
▪ Wood is stacked neatly along one wall of his workroom.
▪ My suitcases were stacked against the wall along with those of the boys which contained the rest of their clothes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Boxes were stacked in the corner.
▪ I'll start stacking the chairs.
▪ My kids leave dirty plates stacked up in the sink until I get home.
▪ These chairs are designed to stack easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bundles of papers and box files were stacked on termite-proof metal shelves but their labels had faded.
▪ I would stack this wood aside against the days I had visitors.
▪ In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
▪ Long, thin sandalwood logs sprinkled with incense were stacked on it.
▪ On the far side, by the window, there were plates stacked up in the sink.
▪ This chart, from an Intelrun benchmark called Spec95, gives a rough idea of how the two chip families stack up.
▪ Underneath some shabby canvas tarps on the cargo deck were stacked a dozen bulky mattresses and twenty thick pine boards.
▪ Walls are stacked to the ceiling with lampshades in all sizes and shapes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stack

Stack \Stack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stacked (st[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stacking.] [Cf. Sw. stacka, Dan. stakke. See Stack, n.]

  1. 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.

  2. Specifically: To place in a vertical arrangement so that each item in a pile is resting on top of another item in the pile, except for the bottom item; as, to stack the papers neatly on the desk; to stack the bricks.

  3. To select or arrange dishonestly so as to achieve an unfair advantage; as, to stack a deck of cards; to stack a jury with persons prejudiced against the defendant.

    To stack arms (Mil.), to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile.

Stack

Stack \Stack\ (st[a^]k), n. [Icel. stakkr; akin to Sw. stack, Dan. stak. Cf. Stake.]

  1. A large and to some degree orderly 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.

    But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
    --Cowper.

  2. Hence: An orderly pile of any type of object, indefinite in quantity; -- used especially of piles of wood. A stack is usually more orderly than a pile

    Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.
    --Bacon.

  3. Specifically: A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.

  4. Hence: A large quantity; as, a stack of cash. [Informal]

  5. (Arch.)

    1. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:

    2. 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.

  6. (Computer programming)

    1. A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.

    2. A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.

  7. pl. The section of a library containing shelves which hold books less frequently requested.

    Stack of arms (Mil.), a number of muskets or rifles set up together, with the bayonets crossing one another, forming a sort of conical self-supporting pile.

    to blow one's stacks to become very angry and lose one's self-control, and especially to display one's fury by shouting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stack

early 14c., "to pile up (grain) into a stack," from stack (n.). Meaning "arrange (a deck of cards) unfairly" (in stack the deck) is first recorded 1825. Stack up "compare against" is 1903, from notion of piles of poker chips (1896). Of aircraft waiting to land, from 1941. Related: Stacked; Stacking.

stack

c.1300, "pile, heap, or group of things," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse stakkr "haystack" (cognate with Danish stak, Swedish stack "heap, stack"), from Proto-Germanic *stakon- "a stake," from PIE *stog- (cognates: Old Church Slavonic stogu "heap," Russian stog "haystack," Lithuanian stokas "pillar"), variant of root *steg- (1) "pole, stick" (see stake (n.)). Meaning "set of shelves on which books are set out" is from 1879. Used of the chimneys of factories, locomotives, etc., since 1825. Of computer data from 1960.

Wiktionary
stack

n. 1 (lb en heading) ''A pile.'' 2 #A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. 3 #A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last. 4 #(lb en UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. 5 #A pile of wood containing 108 cubic foot. (~3 m³) 6 A smokestack. 7 (lb en heading) ''In digital computing.'' 8 #A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue. 9 #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. 10 (lb en geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the se

  1. 11 (senseid en library)(lb en library) Compactly spaced bookshelf used to house large collections of books. 12 (lb en figuratively) A large amount of an object. 13 (lb en military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape. 14 (lb en poker) The amount of money a player has on the table. 15 (lb en heading) ''In architecture.'' 16 #A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. 17 #A vertical drainpipe. 18 (lb en Australia slang) A fall or crash, a prang. 19 (lb en bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits. 20 (lb en US slang) At Caltech, a lock, obstacle, or puzzle designed to prevent underclassman from entering a senior's room during ditch day. v

  2. (context transitive English) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

WordNet
stack
  1. v. load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes"

  2. arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: pile, heap]

  3. arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"

stack
  1. n. an orderly pile

  2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]

  3. a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) [syn: push-down list, push-down stack]

  4. a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated [syn: smokestack]

  5. a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) [syn: push-down storage, push-down store]

Wikipedia
Stack (software)

Stack is a tool to build Haskell projects and manage their dependencies. It uses the Cabal library together with (by default) a curated version of the Hackage repository.

Stack competes against Cabal's binary cabal-install and has been created as a result of the overall criticism about dependency problems. It does not, however, provide its own package format, but uses existing *.cabal files and complements projects with an additional stack.yaml file.

Stack

Stack may refer to:

  • A pile or mound of something
Stack (unit)

Stack was a US unit of volume for stacked firewood. Symbol for the unit was stk.

Stack (abstract data type)

In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements, with two principal operations: , which adds an element to the collection, and , which removes the most recently added element that was not yet removed. The order in which elements come off a stack gives rise to its alternative name, LIFO (for last in, first out). Additionally, a peek operation may give access to the top without modifying the stack.

The name "stack" for this type of structure comes from the analogy to a set of physical items stacked on top of each other, which makes it easy to take an item off the top of the stack, while getting to an item deeper in the stack may require taking off multiple other items first.

Considered as a linear data structure, or more abstractly a sequential collection, the push and pop operations occur only at one end of the structure, referred to as the top of the stack. This makes it possible to implement a stack as a singly linked list and a pointer to the top element.

A stack may be implemented to have a bounded capacity. If the stack is full and does not contain enough space to accept an entity to be pushed, the stack is then considered to be in an overflow state. The pop operation removes an item from the top of the stack.

Stack (geology)

A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion. Stacks are formed over time by wind and water, processes of coastal geomorphology. They are formed when part of a headland is eroded by hydraulic action, which is the force of the sea or water crashing against the rock. The force of the water weakens cracks in the headland, causing them to later collapse, forming free-standing stacks and even a small island. Without the constant presence of water, stacks also form when a natural arch collapses under gravity, due to sub-aerial processes like wind erosion. Stacks can provide important nesting locations for seabirds, and many are popular for rock climbing.

Isolated steep-sided, rocky oceanic islets, typically of volcanic origin, are also loosely called "stacks" or "volcanic stacks".

Stack (mathematics)

In mathematics a stack or 2-sheaf is, roughly speaking, a sheaf that takes values in categories rather than sets. Stacks are used to formalise some of the main constructions of descent theory, and to construct fine moduli stacks when fine moduli spaces do not exist.

Descent theory is concerned with generalisations of situations where geometrical objects (such as vector bundles on topological spaces) can be "glued together" when they are isomorphic (in a compatible way) when restricted to intersections of the sets in an open covering of a space. In more general set-up the restrictions are replaced with general pull-backs, and fibred categories form the right framework to discuss the possibility of such gluing. The intuitive meaning of a stack is that it is a fibred category such that "all possible gluings work". The specification of gluings requires a definition of coverings with regard to which the gluings can be considered. It turns out that the general language for describing these coverings is that of a Grothendieck topology. Thus a stack is formally given as a fibred category over another base category, where the base has a Grothendieck topology and where the fibred category satisfies a few axioms that ensure existence and uniqueness of certain gluings with respect to the Grothendieck topology.

Stacks are the underlying structure of algebraic stacks (also called Artin stacks) and Deligne–Mumford stacks, which generalize schemes and algebraic spaces and which are particularly useful in studying moduli spaces. There are inclusions: schemes ⊆ algebraic spaces ⊆ Deligne–Mumford stacks ⊆ algebraic stacks ⊆ stacks.

and give a brief introductory accounts of stacks, , and give more detailed introductions, and describes the more advanced theory.

Stack (C++)

A stack is a standard C++ container adapter, designed to be used in a LIFO context, and is implemented with an interface/wrapper to the type passed to it as a template argument, which defaults to a deque. It is so simple, that it can be described just by a sample interface:

template<class T, Class C = deque<T> > class std::stack { protected: C c; public: typedef typename C::value_type value_type; typedef typename C::size_type size_type; typedef C container_type; explicit stack(const C& a = C : c(a){} // Inherit the constructor bool empty const { return c.empty; } size_type size const { return c.size; } value_type& top const { return c.back; } const value_type& top const { return c.back; } void push(const value_type& n) { c.push_back(n); } void pop { c.pop_back; } };
Stack (surname)

Stack is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aindrias Stack (born 1978), Irish actor and musician
  • Anthony Stack (born 1961), Canadian general
  • Balaram Stack (born 1991), American surfer
  • Brennan Stack (born 1988), Australian rules footballer
  • Brian Stack (born 1967), American actor, comedian and writer
  • Brian P. Stack (born 1966), American politician
  • Charles Stack (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Chelle Stack (born 1973), American gymnast
  • Chris Stack, American actor
  • Edward W. Stack, American businessman
  • Frank Stack (born 1937), American cartoonist
  • George Stack (born 1946), Welsh Roman Catholic archbishop
  • Graham Stack (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Jack Stack, American businessman
  • James S. Stack (1852-1920), American politician
  • Jim Stack, American basketball executive
  • Jonathan Stack (born 1957), American documentary filmmaker
  • Joseph Stack, American who flew an aircraft into an Austin, Texas building to attack the IRS
  • Kelli Stack (born 1988), American ice hockey player
  • Michael J. Stack III (born 1963), American politician
  • Michael R. Stack (born 1955), Navigator and teacher
  • Peggy Fletcher Stack, American journalist and writer
  • Phil Stack, Australian musician
  • Robert Stack (1919–2003), American actor and television host
  • Ryan Stack (born 1975), American basketball player
  • Seán Stack (born 1953), Irish hurler
  • Stephen Stack, Irish Gaelic footballer
  • Timothy Stack (born 1956), American actor and screenwriter
  • Tommy Stack (born 1945), Irish jockey

Usage examples of "stack".

Mason conducted Floyt over to a terminal that was set up for a human accessor, behind stacks of peripherals and other equipment.

Granny Aching died, the men had cut and lifted the turf around the hut and stacked it neatly some way away.

Even the steadily increasing snow did not cut into the glare of the lights very much, or change the illusion that the whole works, from the crappy siding to the pair of tin woodstove stacks sticking acrooked out of the roof to the single rusty gas-pump out front, was simply set-dressing.

The fireball also blew the aft stack apart, and with it the number-two boiler, which caused a steam explosion from the idling high-pressure steam drum.

A clothes airer stacked with damp washing, a pram and a bed were crammed up against a cot from which he swiftly averted his attention.

He indicated a narrow door barely visible between a wardrobe and a stack of boxes, watching with amusement as Alec explored the wonder of an lyim Flewelling indoor privy.

Almost choking, Ben wrenched himself free, and as he staggered back against the partition on which the tin stuff was stacked Alee flung up the counter flap and was on him again.

Impoverished Argali could never match such an offer: shovels and awls forged from fine metals, stacks of dried firewood, golden bridle bells, dewhoney and molasses, dried rose-leeks, cobberwheat, tri-grains, and reedflour that poured through your fingers like powdered rubies.

The molds and deckles are neatly stacked, coils of armature wire sit untouched by the table.

A moment later I heard a noise like ten dog-fights rolled into one, and rushing out I found my friend rolling on the ground with his arms round the workman who was helping to stack my artesian tubing.

The bottom of the basket bumped, then acted as a break as the balloon, pulled by the slight breeze, rushed on up the slope, so of course the basket tipped on to its side and we were dragged for many bone-shaking yards while the actual ground came nearer and nearer our heads until finally the basket was grounded on its beam ends and we were all stacked as if in pigeonholes above it.

Taking up a tossaway from the stack, Picardy grasped the small loop and held the aubade over the crystal jet.

For the first time in three years neat tubes of aureomycin ointment for udder sores were neatly stacked in the old space on the shelf.

Mama and Babushka brought the canned goods, the cereals and the grains, soap and salt and vodka into the rooms, stacking it all in the corners and in the hallway behind the sofa.

The turtle collection, everyday dishes and bakeware had used up the stack of old newspapers Hannah found in the garage.