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stack

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an orderly pile (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 ...

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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 ...

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

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.