Definition of "stack"

(heading) A pile.

1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.  quotations  examples

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

     c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm

2. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.  examples

3. (UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.  quotations  examples

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   • There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;

     1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching the Reflexion, of Sounds.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], paragraph 249, page 67

4. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)  examples

5. An extensive collection  quotations  examples

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   • She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.

     1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less

   • “We said, 'Maybe we could come up with a couple of characters doing jokes,'” Correll recalled in 1972. “We had a whole stack of jokes we used to do in these home talent shows

     2005, Elizabeth McLeod, The Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial, McFarland, page 26

   • Going back to an earlier question, which I think is very important, this question of how you use skills. It is no good having a great stack of skills in a workplace if the employer does not utilise them properly

     2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education and Skills Committee, Post-16 skills: ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence, The Stationery Office page 42

A smokestack.  quotations  examples

(heading) In computing.

1. (programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).  examples

2. (computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.  quotations  examples

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   • When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

     1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47

3. An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).  examples

4. A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.  quotations  examples

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   • A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites.

     2016, John Paul Mueller, AWS For Admins For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 323

(mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.  examples

(geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.

(library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.  quotations  examples

(figuratively) A large amount of an object.  examples

(military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.

(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.  examples

(heading) In architecture.

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

2. A vertical drainpipe.  examples

(Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.  quotations

(bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.  examples

(aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.  examples

(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.  examples

(transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.  quotations  examples

(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.  examples

(transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.  examples

(transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).  quotations  examples

(transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.  quotations

(gaming) To operate cumulatively.  examples

(aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.  examples

(informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.  examples

(printing) To have excessive ink transfer.  examples