stack
/stæk/ · noun
Meaning
- (heading) A pile.
- A smokestack.
- (heading) In computing.
- A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
- To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- To crash; to fall.
- To operate cumulatively.
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