Definitions for stacked

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Spelling: [stakt]

IPA: /stækt/

Stacked is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in stacked (acdekst).

Definitions for stacked

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.

adjective

1. (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.

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 stacked

1940-45; stack (v.) + -ed²

Examples for stacked

stacked cylinders form a base beneath her feet and loosely roll about as she juggles objects and weaves in and out of hula-hoops.

Pallets of produce and food parcels are stacked shoulder-high.

Well Newsies is stacked with former So You Think You Can Dance dancers.

Faulkner, Whitman, and Dickinson did not labor in vain; their books live on, horizontally, stacked like bricks in a display case.

Chairs were stacked along the walls and there was a low platform at one end.

The night before you'd collected driftwood and stacked it by the fire.

As for the paintings that came from the most important collections in Paris, these were stacked up at the German Embassy.

There were also many large packing-cases, stacked at the end of the row of cisterns.

He stepped to the mainmast, about which the powder kegs had been stacked.

Later they were stacked on shelves in a large committee room.