单词 | stack up |
释义 | stack up 1. phrasal verb [no passive] If you ask how one person or thing stacks up against other people or things, you are asking how the one compares with the others. [informal] The British will be out to see how they stack up to the competition. [V P against/to n] How does this final presidential debate stack up and compare to the others, do you think? [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If facts or figures do not stack up, they do not make sense or give the results you expect. There have been a number of explanations, but none of them stack up. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. stack [sense 2]verb See full dictionary entry for stack If you stack a number of things, you arrange them in neat piles. Mme Cathiard was stacking the clean bottles in crates. [VERB noun] They are stacked neatly in piles of three. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: pile, heap up, load, assemble |
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