stacks
staks
- n a large number or amount
she amassed stacks of newspapers - n storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored
- 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
- v arrange in stacks
- v arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
- Since then, Yahoo has watched its shares become worth 60% less, as investors grow ever-more-disenchanted with how the firm stacks up to Google in the game of squeezing ad revenue .
- It's time to pay tribute to all things tribal, with layers of prints, stacks of bangles and scarves galore Photographs for PTI BY Chad Pitman; Styled by Katie Mossman.
- Chances are, you won't be poking through the stacks at the National Archives any time soon.