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单词 stack
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stacknoun [ C ]

uk/stæk/us/stæk/

stack noun [ C ] (PILE)

a pile of things arranged one on top of another:

He chose a cartoon from the stack of DVDs on the shelf.

informal a large amount:

Don't worry, we've got stacks of time.
the stacks

a set of shelves in a library that are positioned close together so that a lot of books can be stored on them

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Masses and large amounts of things

  • accumulation
  • an embarrassment of riches idiom
  • any number of things idiom
  • backlog
  • battery
  • boatload
  • bolus
  • clot
  • deluge
  • fund
  • lashing
  • lather
  • outpouring
  • panoply
  • plethora
  • predominance
  • preponderance
  • sheet
  • shower
  • thousand

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Furniture for storage

stack noun [ C ] (AIRCRAFT)

a group of aircraft circling over an airport at different heights waiting for permission to land:

We were in the stack for over an hour before we landed.

stack noun [ C ] (COMPUTER)

a way of storing data (= information) on a computer so that the last piece of data to be stored is the first one to be found by the computer

stack noun [ C ] (ACCIDENT)

Australian English informal a car accident, especially one that causes damage

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On the road: accidents involving vehicles

  • blowout
  • car crash
  • collide
  • crash
  • crash-land
  • fender bender
  • head-on
  • jackknife
  • knock
  • overshoot
  • plough
  • rear-end
  • road toll
  • run (sth) down
  • run sb/sth over
  • sideswipe
  • skid
  • stack up
  • wipe
  • write-off

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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding

stackverb

uk/stæk/us/stæk/

stack verb (PUT SOMEWHERE)

[ T ] to arrange things in an ordered pile:

Once the last few people had left the hall, the caretaker began stacking (up) the chairs.

[ T ] to fill something with objects:

I got a job stacking shelves in a supermarket.
Will you stack the dishwasher and switch it on, please?

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Placing and positioning an object

  • -based
  • appose
  • bung
  • change sth around
  • consign
  • consign sb/sth to sth
  • fit
  • manoeuvre
  • perch
  • pop
  • position
  • sandwich sb/sth between sb/sth
  • sandwich sth together
  • set sb down
  • set sth down
  • shelve
  • shove
  • stand
  • stuff
  • whack

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stack verb (AIRCRAFT)

[ I or T ] also stack up to circle over an airport waiting for permission to land, or to make an aircraft do this:

The airline uses thousands of tonnes of fuel a year when its planes are stacking above Heathrow and Gatwick.
Planes stacked up at LAX when a radar failure caused problems nationwide.
We were stacked up for hours waiting to land.

Idiom(s)

have the odds/cards stacked against you
stack the cards

Phrasal verb(s)

stack up
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