stack
stak
- n an orderly pile
- n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- n a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- n a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
- n a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- v load or cover with stacks
stack a truck with boxes - v arrange in stacks
stack your books up on the shelves - v arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
stack the deck of cards
- Another big stack of pages is causing concern over at the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is investigating abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
- So Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa gave it a home that's part funky, part shimmery, an asymmetrical stack of boxes covered by a honeycomb of aluminum.
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