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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.
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.
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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.
Stacking \Stack"ing\, a. & n. from Stack.
Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack.
Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act by which something is stacked. 2 (context uncountable English) sport stacking. 3 (context chemistry countable English) A stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions. 4 Making claims for a single incident on multiple insurance policy. 5 (context photography English) An image processing technique to reduce noise or add special effects. 6 (context television English) A technique for keeping a captive audience by grouping together programs with similar appeal. vb. (present participle of stack English)
Wikipedia
Stacking may refer to:
- Stacking (chemistry)
- Stacking (video game), a 2011 game from Double Fine
- Sport stacking, played using plastic cups
- Dice stacking, a performance art involving dice
- Focus stacking, an image processing technique in photography
- Image stacking, a form of speckle imaging
- Consonant stacking, a feature of some South Asian writing systems
- Verb stacking, a grammatical phenomenon involving concatenation of verbs
- Block-stacking problem, a puzzle in statics
- Stacking guard pass, a technique in grappling
- Stacking, a film directed and produced by Martin Rosen
- Stacking, a technique in broadcast programming
- Stacking, a type of ensemble learning in machine learning
- Stacking, a technique used in reflection seismology
- Stacking, a gang signal made with the hands
- Stacking, a phenomenon where amusement ride vehicles stop and "pile up" due to the track ahead being occupied
In chemistry, pi stacking (also called π–π stacking) refers to attractive, noncovalent interactions between aromatic rings, since they contain pi bonds. These interactions are important in nucleobase stacking within DNA and RNA molecules, protein folding, template-directed synthesis, materials science, and molecular recognition, although new research suggests that pi stacking may not be operative in some of these applications. Despite intense experimental and theoretical interest, there is no unified description of the factors that contribute to pi stacking interactions.
Stacking is an adventure/ puzzle video game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by THQ; like Double Fine's previous Costume Quest, it is a smaller title created during the development period of Brütal Legend, and was released in February 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. A Windows version was released on March 6, 2012. A Linux version was released in May 2013.
The game is based on the Russian stacking matryoshka dolls, an idea coined by Double Fine's art director, Lee Petty, who saw the dolls as a means to replace the standard player interface used in graphical adventure games. The player controls the smallest doll, Charlie Blackmore, who has the ability to stack and unstack into larger dolls and use their abilities to solve puzzles to allow Charlie to free his older siblings and put an end to child labor enforced by the antagonist, the Baron. Puzzles within the game have multiple solutions, and include additional puzzles and challenges that allow the player to explore the game's world outside of the main story.
Stacking was well received by critics and praised for its alluring appearance, humorous story, and accessible gameplay for casual players.
Usage examples of "stacking".
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.
They treated her with respect and kindness, stacking firewood outside her door, fetching water for her, escorting her across the bateau bridge.
The next morning Chubby and I worked for half an hour bringing down the equipment we needed from the whaleboat and stacking it on the gun-deck of the wreck before we were able to penetrate deeper into the hull.
The sky was rain-washed and blue when I pulled into his drive and he was raking leaves out of his coulee, stacking them in a black pile for burning.
While the four men loaded the cut logs onto the wagon, Cerryl had continued sawing the smaller lengths of pole pine branches into sections a cubit long, wood for cooking and heat, stacking each length neatly in the pile.
Lila had remained in the drawing-room, where Eric Haile was stacking the records preparatory to putting them away in the study.
I found her in the kitchen, where the laundress had finished with the sink, and she was stacking the breakfast dishes for washinga chore she always does first.
Even Loz would be busy, stacking away all the pots and pans, seeing that in the heat of a fight there would be no cooking knives or cleavers flying around inside the armored cabin.
Marty Lunk, stacking metal boxes on the table, could hear the shouts of the triumphant gypsies.
When I got to class the orange juice and bagel would disappear, and then, without pause, I would start in on the Smarties, stacking the empties on the edge of the desk.
Sue and Don Paco sat outside under a fig tree, on faded orange plastic stacking chairs placed at a wonky old green-baize card table.
Then he heard her pulling books off the shelf and stacking them up on the microfiche table.
A sturdily built man much of an age with Planir and Herion knelt by the fireplace stacking badly charred tomes inside the fender.
He worked for several hours, stacking ties, and then he was tired, and sat down, soaked with sweat, his hands raw from the rough, slivery wood.
Sometimes he seemed preoccupied with the white polyhedrons, stacking and unstacking the dozen or so Aide kept in her room, examining them for hours in fascination.