stackup


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S0691900 (stăk′ŭp′)n. A deployment of aircraft circling an airport at designated altitudes while awaiting instructions to land.

stack

(stæk)

n. 1. a more or less orderly pile or heap. 2. a large, usu. conical, circular, or rectangular pile of hay, straw, or the like. 3. Often, stacks. a set of shelves for books ranged compactly one above the other, as in a library. 4. stacks, the part of a library in which books and other holdings are stored. 5. a number of chimneys or flues grouped together. 6. smokestack. 7. a great quantity or number. 8. a radio antenna consisting of a number of components connected in a substantially vertical series. 9. a linear list, as in a computer, arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved. 10. a conical, free-standing group of three rifles placed on their butts and hooked together. 11. a group of airplanes circling over an airport awaiting their turns to land. 12. an English measure for coal and wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3 cu. m). 13. a. a given quantity of chips that can be bought at one time, as in poker. b. the quantity of chips held by a player at a given point. v.t. 14. to pile, arrange, or place in a stack. 15. to cover or load with something in stacks or piles. 16. to arrange or select unfairly in order to force a desired result: to stack a jury. 17. to keep (incoming airplanes) flying in circles over an airport where conditions prevent immediate landings. v.i. 18. to be arranged in or form a stack. 19. stack up, a. to control the flight patterns of airplanes waiting to land at an airport so that each circles at a designated altitude. b. to compare; measure up (often fol. by against). c. to add up. Idioms: stack the deck, a. to arrange cards or a pack of cards so as to cheat. b. to manipulate events, information, etc., esp. unethically, in order to achieve a desired result. [1250–1300; (n.) Middle English stak < Old Norse stakkr haystack] stack′er, n. stack′less, adj.