Definitions for stack

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Spelling: [stak]

IPA: /stæk/

Stack is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in stack (ackst).

Definitions for stack

noun

1. a more or less orderly pile or heap:
2. a large, usually conical, circular, or rectangular pile of hay, straw, or the like.
3. Often, stacks. a set of shelves for books or other materials ranged compactly one above the other, as in a library.
4. stacks, the area or part of a library in which the books and other holdings are stored or kept.
5. a number of chimneys or flues grouped together.
6. smokestack.
7. a vertical duct for conveying warm air from a leader to a register on an upper story of a building.
8. a vertical waste pipe or vent pipe serving a number of floors.
9. Informal. a great quantity or number.
10. Radio. an antenna consisting of a number of components connected in a substantially vertical series.
11. Computers. a linear list arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved.
12. Military. a conical, free-standing group of three rifles placed on their butts and hooked together with stacking swivels.
13. Also called air stack, stackup. Aviation. a group of airplanes circling over an airport awaiting their turns to land.
14. an English measure for coal and wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3 cu. m).
15. Geology. a column of rock isolated from a shore by the action of waves.
16. 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.

Idioms

1. blow one's stack, Slang. to lose one's temper or become uncontrollably angry, especially to display one's fury, as by shouting:
2. stack the deck, to arrange cards or a pack of cards so as to cheat: to manipulate events, information, etc., especially unethically, in order to achieve an advantage or desired result.

Verb phrases

1. stack up, Aviation. to control the flight patterns of airplanes waiting to land at an airport so that each circles at a designated altitude. Informal. to compare; measure up (often followed by against): Informal. to appear plausible or in keeping with the known facts:

verb (used with object)

1. to pile, arrange, or place in a stack:
2. to cover or load with something in stacks or piles.
3. 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:
4. 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.

verb (used without object)

1. to be arranged in or form a stack:

Origin of stack

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English stak Old Norse stakkr haystack; (v.) Middle English stakken, derivative of the v.

Examples for stack

She suggested that Gregory stack newspapers on his desk to give the set an intimate, coffeehouse feel.

"That's quite a stack of chips you're carrying," Sperry observed.

And what that left was the jewelry and the stack of black chips and the girl who worked nights for a living.

Owens leapt from the stack, and the men caught up their guns.

Jimbo and I sat next to each other, Indian style, and leaned against the stack of black Hefty bags and electronics.

It will have to stack up against everything else the medium has to offer.

Place the stack of phyllo dough sheets on a cutting board and cover it with a slightly damp towel.

Or, you goin' to get her a stack of every colour and let her play with you?

"I have got to the corner of the stack, and as well as I can judge you must be just round it," he said.

You'll have to send Andrew to build up the stack again—that's all.