stack (stæk
)
Definitions
noun
- an ordered pile or heap
- a large orderly pile of hay, straw, etc, for storage in the open air
- (often plural) library science compactly spaced bookshelves, used to house collections of books in an area usually prohibited to library users
- a number of aircraft circling an airport at different altitudes, awaiting their signal to land
- a large amount ⇒
a stack of work
- military a pile of rifles or muskets in the shape of a cone
- British a measure of coal or wood equal to 108 cubic feet
- See chimney stack , smokestack
- a vertical pipe, such as the funnel of a ship or the soil pipe attached to the side of a building
- a high column of rock, esp one isolated from the mainland by the erosive action of the sea
- an area in a computer memory for temporary storage
verb (tr)
- to place in a stack; pile ⇒
to stack bricks on a lorry
- to load or fill up with piles of something ⇒
to stack a lorry with bricks
- to control (a number of aircraft waiting to land at an airport) so that each flies at a different altitude
- See stack the cards
Alternative Forms
ˈstackable adjective ˈstacker nounWord Origin
C13: from Old Norse stakkr haystack, of Germanic origin; related to Russian stogTranslations
- British English:
stack
A stack of things is a neat pile of them.There were stacks of books on the table.stæk NOUN There were stacks of books on the table.
- Spanish:
montón
nm
- French:
tas
nm
- German:
Stapel
nm Stapel
- Chinese: 堆栈 n
- Arabic: كَوْمَةٌ مُنْتَظِمَة n
- Portuguese: pilha nf
- Russian: штабель nm
- Croatian: hrpa nf
- Czech: hromada nf
- Danish: stak nutr
- Dutch: stapel nm
- Finnish: pino n
- Greek: στοίβα nf
- Italian: catasta nf
- Japanese: 積み重ね n
- Korean: 더미 n
- Norwegian: stabel nm
- Polish: stóg nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: pilha nf
- European Spanish:
montón
nm
- Swedish: trave nutr
- Thai: กองที่ซ้อนกัน n
- Turkish: yığın n
- Vietnamese: đụn n
Usage examples
But then fear reawakens, fear of losing him, and I risk a peep around the stack.
, A Means to Evil (1993)When light hits a stack of perfectly parallel thin films, the reflected rays form a very narrow cone.
New Scientist (1999)The ad featured a jar of Olay atop a stack of other products.
Globe and Mail (2003)The corn is as high as an elephant's eye and so was the stack of critical superlatives.
Independent (1998)Place the selector pin in the right position in the weight stack for you.
, Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life (1987)