stack

1 of 2

noun

ˈstak

plural stacks

: a large usually conical pile (as of hay, straw, or grain in the sheaf) left standing in the field for storage

: an orderly pile or heap

: a large quantity or number

: an English unit of measure especially for firewood that is equal to 108 cubic feet

: a number of flues embodied in one structure rising above a roof

: a vertical pipe (as to carry off smoke)

: the exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine

: a structure of bookshelves for compact storage of books

—usually used in plural

stacks plural : a section of a building housing such structures

: a pile of poker chips

: a memory or a section of memory in a computer for temporary storage in which the last item stored is the first retrieved

also : a data structure that simulates a stack

a push-down stack

: a computer memory consisting of arrays of memory elements stacked one on top of another

stack

2 of 2

verb

stacked; stacking; stacks

transitive verb

: to arrange in a stack : pile

: to pile in or on

stacked the table with books

stack the dishwasher

: to arrange secretly for cheating

stack a deck of cards

: to arrange or fix so as to make a particular result likely

the odds are stacked against us

will stack juries to suit themselves

Patrice Horn

: to assign (an airplane) by radio to a particular altitude and position within a group circling before landing

: to put into a waiting line

another dozen rigs are stacked up and waiting

P. H. Hutchins, Jr.

: compare

—used with against

such a crime is nothing when stacked against a murder

Pete Censky

intransitive verb

: to form a stack

stacker noun

Synonyms

Noun

abundance
barrel
basketful
boatload
bucket
bunch
bundle
bushel
carload
chunk
deal
dozen
fistful
gobs
good deal
heap
hundred
lashings [chiefly British]
lashins
loads
lot
mass
mess
mountain
much
multiplicity
myriad
oodles
pack
passel
peck
pile
plateful
plenitude
plentitude
plenty
pot
potful
profusion
quantity
raft
reams
scads
sheaf
shipload
sight
slew
spate
store
ton
truckload
volume
wad
wealth
yard

Verb

heap
mound
pile

See all Synonyms & Antonyms

Example Sentences

Noun He had arranged the letters in stacks. She took a magazine from near the top of the stack. Verb She spent the afternoon splitting and stacking firewood. She stacked the plates in the cupboard. He stacked the books on the table. The other players accused him of stacking the deck. See More

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

There is nothing left on my desk but a stack of MapQuest printouts showing my route to LA.

ABC News, 13 Sep. 2022 Editor's Tip: To create pressed leaves for fall crafts, place leaves between layers of newspapers and press under a stack of books.

Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022 What would this music sound like pumping from a stack of speakers bigger than my bedroom?

Chris Richards, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022 Pancakes range from $15 for a stack of three to $26 for Strawberry Cheesecake Overload Pancakes.

Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2022 The shoe design integrates carbon-plate tech and a ridiculously high stack of ultra-responsive foam.

Jamie Prokell, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022 In 1997, at her first ever US Open, Williams and her sister Venus both wore their hair in cornrows, with each braid threaded through a heavy stack of white beads.

Leah Dolan, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022 Your queue functions more like an approachable digital to-do list and less like a towering stack of the New Yorker magazines—who knows where that piece on whales is hiding?

Jordan Mcmahon, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022 Pointing out their proficiency at stealing bases is a bit like reaching under a stack of C-notes to rummage through the change drawer.

Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022

Verb

His plan was to try to keep Stanley from breaking to the outside, and stack defenders at the line of scrimmage.

Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022 For example, a team responsible for five product lines could create video and photo content for each and then stack them into one big story.

Rafael Schwarz, Forbes, 21 June 2022 The players must use tweezers to stack mini cocktail glasses into a pyramid inside an impossibly tiny house.

Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2021 Each permit will be for a two-hour entry window to help stack guest arrivals into the park.

Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2021 And instead of a ground meat mixture, restaurants slice the pork and then stack it on the vertical rotisserie.

Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 The design of the RepAir system is modular, so customers will be able to simply stack them together to collect more CO2.

Erik Kobayashi-solomon, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022 Another new robot, called Cardinal, is designed to pick up incoming items and stack them on the proper shelves.

Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022 The wheels on carts first distributed by the city in 2007 must be broken off to stack them onto trucks during the collection process, according to Pruitt, so those likely won’t be reused.

Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 18 June 2022 See More

stack 1 of 2

noun

as in loads

a considerable amount earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

loads
pile
ton
dozen
slew
plenty
hundred
chunk
deal
bunch
raft
bundle
wealth
quantity
lot
heap
abundance
much
truckload
pack
volume
bucket
mountain
sheaf
basketful
myriad
pot
gobs
yard
fistful
reams
boatload
store
wad
scads
good deal
peck
plateful
mass
barrel
oodles
carload
bushel
mess
multiplicity
profusion
plenitude
passel
potful
spate
sight
plentitude
shipload
lashins
score
lashings
thousands
all kinds (of)
quite a bit
surplus
flood
excess
plague
rash
overflow
million
plethora
overabundance
multitude
bonanza
overkill
sea
swarm
redundancy
horde
epidemic
surfeit
host
deluge
cram
bevy
press
crush
overage
superabundance
army
oversupply
superfluity
embarrassment
flock
crowd
overmuch
trillion
legion
throng
drove
herd
zillion
mob
gazillion
jillion
kazillion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

handful
spot
scrap
fragment
shadow
touch
ace
bit
trace
grain
taste
shade
strain
sprinkling
sprinkle
pittance
particle
molecule
shred
pinch
peanuts
hint
streak
ounce
mouthful
atom
suspicion
speck
ray
dram
mite
lick
dot
piece
portion
nip
section
granule
drop
mote
dab
glimmer
crumb
whit
smattering
tad
modicum
scruple
jot
dash
little
shot
scintilla
smidge
tittle
morsel
iota
smidgin
smidgen
smidgeon
fleck
driblet
shortage
flyspeck
lack
absence
poverty
scarcity
want
nubbin
paucity
deficiency
smatter
deficit
famine
dearth
insufficiency
inadequacy
scantness
undersupply
scantiness
meagerness
scarceness
skimpiness

as in pile

a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another a stack of playing cards

Synonyms & Similar Words

pile
heap
mountain
mound
hill
cock
layer
hoard
bank
collection
bed
array
pyramid
accumulation
embankment
drift
grouping
jumble
assemblage
rick
aggregate
bar
mow
barrow
gathering
pyre
pileup
conglomeration
cairn
knot
huddle

stack

2 of 2

verb

as in to pile

to lay or throw on top of one another stacked the split logs by the house

Synonyms & Similar Words

pile
heap
layer
mound
collect
assemble
bank
accumulate
gather
group
pyramid
mass
bunch
lump
concentrate
clump
garner
amass

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

unpile

单词	stack
释义	stack 1 of 2 noun ˈstak plural stacks 1 : a large usually conical pile (as of hay, straw, or grain in the sheaf) left standing in the field for storage 2 a : an orderly pile or heap b : a large quantity or number 3 : an English unit of measure especially for firewood that is equal to 108 cubic feet 4 a : a number of flues embodied in one structure rising above a roof b : a vertical pipe (as to carry off smoke) c : the exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine 5 a : a structure of bookshelves for compact storage of books —usually used in plural b stacks plural : a section of a building housing such structures 6 : a pile of poker chips 7 a : a memory or a section of memory in a computer for temporary storage in which the last item stored is the first retrieved also : a data structure that simulates a stack a push-down stack b : a computer memory consisting of arrays of memory elements stacked one on top of another stack 2 of 2 verb stacked; stacking; stacks transitive verb 1 a : to arrange in a stack : pile b : to pile in or on stacked the table with books stack the dishwasher 2 a : to arrange secretly for cheating stack a deck of cards b : to arrange or fix so as to make a particular result likely the odds are stacked against us will stack juries to suit themselves Patrice Horn 3 a : to assign (an airplane) by radio to a particular altitude and position within a group circling before landing b : to put into a waiting line another dozen rigs are stacked up and waiting P. H. Hutchins, Jr. 4 : compare —used with against such a crime is nothing when stacked against a murder Pete Censky intransitive verb : to form a stack stacker noun Synonyms Noun abundance barrel basketful boatload bucket bunch bundle bushel carload chunk deal dozen fistful gobs good deal heap hundred lashings [chiefly British] lashins loads lot mass mess mountain much multiplicity myriad oodles pack passel peck pile plateful plenitude plentitude plenty pot potful profusion quantity raft reams scads sheaf shipload sight slew spate store ton truckload volume wad wealth yard Verb heap mound pile See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Noun He had arranged the letters in stacks. She took a magazine from near the top of the stack. Verb She spent the afternoon splitting and stacking firewood. She stacked the plates in the cupboard. He stacked the books on the table. The other players accused him of stacking the deck. See More Recent Examples on the Web Noun There is nothing left on my desk but a stack of MapQuest printouts showing my route to LA. ABC News, 13 Sep. 2022 Editor's Tip: To create pressed leaves for fall crafts, place leaves between layers of newspapers and press under a stack of books. Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022 What would this music sound like pumping from a stack of speakers bigger than my bedroom? Chris Richards, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022 Pancakes range from $15 for a stack of three to $26 for Strawberry Cheesecake Overload Pancakes. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2022 The shoe design integrates carbon-plate tech and a ridiculously high stack of ultra-responsive foam. Jamie Prokell, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022 In 1997, at her first ever US Open, Williams and her sister Venus both wore their hair in cornrows, with each braid threaded through a heavy stack of white beads. Leah Dolan, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022 Your queue functions more like an approachable digital to-do list and less like a towering stack of the New Yorker magazines—who knows where that piece on whales is hiding? Jordan Mcmahon, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022 Pointing out their proficiency at stealing bases is a bit like reaching under a stack of C-notes to rummage through the change drawer. Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022 Verb His plan was to try to keep Stanley from breaking to the outside, and stack defenders at the line of scrimmage. Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022 For example, a team responsible for five product lines could create video and photo content for each and then stack them into one big story. Rafael Schwarz, Forbes, 21 June 2022 The players must use tweezers to stack mini cocktail glasses into a pyramid inside an impossibly tiny house. Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2021 Each permit will be for a two-hour entry window to help stack guest arrivals into the park. Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2021 And instead of a ground meat mixture, restaurants slice the pork and then stack it on the vertical rotisserie. Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 The design of the RepAir system is modular, so customers will be able to simply stack them together to collect more CO2. Erik Kobayashi-solomon, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022 Another new robot, called Cardinal, is designed to pick up incoming items and stack them on the proper shelves. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022 The wheels on carts first distributed by the city in 2007 must be broken off to stack them onto trucks during the collection process, according to Pruitt, so those likely won’t be reused. Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 18 June 2022 See More Word History Etymology Noun Middle English stak, from Old Norse stakkr; akin to Russian stog stack and probably to Old English staca stake First Known Use Noun 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Verb 14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a Phrases Containing stack chimney stack blow one's stack stack the odds in someone's favor stack up stack the odds in favor of (someone) stack the odds against (someone) chimney stack blow one's stack stack the odds in someone's favor stack up stack the odds in favor of (someone) stack the odds against (someone) Kids Definition stack 1 of 2 noun ˈstak 1 : a neat pile of objects usually one on top of the other 2 : a large number or amount We've got a stack of bills to pay. 3 : a large pile (as of hay) usually shaped like a cone 4 : chimney, smokestack 5 : a structure with shelves for storing books stack 2 of 2 verb stacked; stacking : to arrange in or form a neat pile stack 1 of 2 noun 1 as in loads a considerable amount earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance loads pile ton dozen slew plenty hundred chunk deal bunch raft bundle wealth quantity lot heap abundance much truckload pack volume bucket mountain sheaf basketful myriad pot gobs yard fistful reams boatload store wad scads good deal peck plateful mass barrel oodles carload bushel mess multiplicity profusion plenitude passel potful spate sight plentitude shipload lashins score lashings thousands all kinds (of) quite a bit surplus flood excess plague rash overflow million plethora overabundance multitude bonanza overkill sea swarm redundancy horde epidemic surfeit host deluge cram bevy press crush overage superabundance army oversupply superfluity embarrassment flock crowd overmuch trillion legion throng drove herd zillion mob gazillion jillion kazillion Antonyms & Near Antonyms handful spot scrap fragment shadow touch ace bit trace grain taste shade strain sprinkling sprinkle pittance particle molecule shred pinch peanuts hint streak ounce mouthful atom suspicion speck ray dram mite lick dot piece portion nip section granule drop mote dab glimmer crumb whit smattering tad modicum scruple jot dash little shot scintilla smidge tittle morsel iota smidgin smidgen smidgeon fleck driblet shortage flyspeck lack absence poverty scarcity want nubbin paucity deficiency smatter deficit famine dearth insufficiency inadequacy scantness undersupply scantiness meagerness scarceness skimpiness See More 2 as in pile a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another a stack of playing cards Synonyms & Similar Words pile heap mountain mound hill cock layer hoard bank collection bed array pyramid accumulation embankment drift grouping jumble assemblage rick aggregate bar mow barrow gathering pyre pileup conglomeration cairn knot huddle stack 2 of 2 verb as in to pile to lay or throw on top of one another stacked the split logs by the house Synonyms & Similar Words pile heap layer mound collect assemble bank accumulate gather group pyramid mass bunch lump concentrate clump garner amass Antonyms & Near Antonyms unpile Phrases Containing stack blow one's stack stack (up) stack up (against or with) blow one's stack stack (up) stack up (against or with)
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