EGAVE

stack

About 7.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A pile. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
    Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
  2. noun A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
  3. noun A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
    Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
  4. noun A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
  5. noun A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
  6. noun An extensive collection
  7. noun A smokestack.
  8. noun In computing. A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
    A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.

Similar words

pot hatful batch smokestack spate raft wad slew pile heap

Often followed by

of and is pointer the to in up sullivan

Word family

cards/odds are stacked against stack the odds stacked stacked the odds stacker stackers stacking stacking the odds stacks stacks the odds

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