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stack

The English word “stack” has 32 meanings listed here.

  1. A pile.
  2. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
  3. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
  4. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
  5. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
  6. An extensive collection
  7. A smokestack.
  8. In computing.
  9. A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
  10. A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
  11. An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
  12. A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
  13. A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
  14. Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
  15. A large amount of an object.
  16. A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
  17. The amount of money a player has on the table.
  18. In architecture.
  19. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
  20. A vertical drainpipe.
  21. A fall or crash, a prang.
  22. A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
  23. A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
  24. The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
  25. To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  26. To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
  27. To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  28. To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  29. To crash; to fall.
  30. To operate cumulatively.
  31. To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
  32. To have excessive ink transfer.
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