ALL meanings of stack
stack
S s - noun stack pile 1
- intransitive verb stack pile up 1
- transitive verb stack shelves: fill 1
- intransitive verb stack shelves: fill with sth 1
- noun stack large quantity 1
- noun,plural stack library shelves 1
- intransitive verb stack weight sth unfairly 1
- noun stack a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers. 1
- noun stack a large, usually conical, circular, or rectangular pile of hay, straw, or the like. 1
- noun stack Often, stacks. a set of shelves for books or other materials ranged compactly one above the other, as in a library. 1
- noun stack stacks, the area or part of a library in which the books and other holdings are stored or kept. 1
- noun stack a number of chimneys or flues grouped together. 1
- abbreviation STACK smokestack. 1
- noun stack a vertical duct for conveying warm air from a leader to a register on an upper story of a building. 1
- noun stack a vertical waste pipe or vent pipe serving a number of floors. 1
- noun stack Informal. a great quantity or number. 1
- noun stack Radio. an antenna consisting of a number of components connected in a substantially vertical series. 1
- noun stack Computers. a linear list arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved. 1
- noun stack Military. a conical, free-standing group of three rifles placed on their butts and hooked together with stacking swivels. 1
- noun stack Also called air stack, stackup. Aviation. a group of airplanes circling over an airport awaiting their turns to land. 1
- noun stack an English measure for coal and wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3 cu. m). 1
- noun stack Geology. a column of rock isolated from a shore by the action of waves. 1
- noun stack Games. a given quantity of chips that can be bought at one time, as in poker or other gambling games. the quantity of chips held by a player at a given point in a gambling game. 1
- verb with object stack to pile, arrange, or place in a stack: to stack hay; to stack rifles. 1
- verb with object stack to cover or load with something in stacks or piles. 1
- verb with object stack to arrange or select unfairly in order to force a desired result, especially to load (a jury, committee, etc.) with members having a biased viewpoint: The lawyer charged that the jury had been stacked against his client. 1
- verb with object stack to keep (a number of incoming airplanes) flying nearly circular patterns at various altitudes over an airport where crowded runways, a low ceiling, or other temporary conditions prevent immediate landings. 1
- verb without object stack to be arranged in or form a stack: These chairs stack easily. 1
- idioms stack blow one's stack, Slang. to lose one's temper or become uncontrollably angry, especially to display one's fury, as by shouting: When he came in and saw the mess he blew his stack. 1
- idioms stack stack the deck, to arrange cards or a pack of cards so as to cheat: He stacked the deck and won every hand. to manipulate events, information, etc., especially unethically, in order to achieve an advantage or desired result. 1
- countable noun stack A stack of things is a pile of them. 0
- verb stack If you stack a number of things, you arrange them in neat piles. 0
- verb stack Stack up means the same as stack. 0
- noun plural stack If you say that someone has stacks of something, you mean that they have a lot of it. 0
- verb stack If someone in authority stacks an organization or body, they fill it with their own supporters so that the decisions it makes will be the ones they want it to make. 0
- noun stack an ordered pile or heap 0
- noun stack a large orderly pile of hay, straw, etc, for storage in the open air 0
- noun stack compactly spaced bookshelves, used to house collections of books in an area usually prohibited to library users 0
- noun stack a number of aircraft circling an airport at different altitudes, awaiting their signal to land 0
- noun stack a large amount 0
- noun stack a pile of rifles or muskets in the shape of a cone 0
- noun stack a measure of coal or wood equal to 108 cubic feet 0
- noun stack a vertical pipe, such as the funnel of a ship or the soil pipe attached to the side of a building 0
- noun stack a high column of rock, esp one isolated from the mainland by the erosive action of the sea 0
- noun stack an area in a computer memory for temporary storage 0
- verb stack to place in a stack; pile 0
- verb stack to load or fill up with piles of something 0
- verb stack to control (a number of aircraft waiting to land at an airport) so that each flies at a different altitude 0
- noun stack a large pile of straw, hay, etc., esp. one neatly arranged, as in a conical form, for outdoor storage 0
- noun stack any somewhat orderly pile or heap, as of boxes, books, poker chips, etc. 0