stack

Noun

1. A pile.
2. A pile.
3. (UK) A pile.
4. A pile.
5. A pile.
6. A smokestack.
7. In computing.
8. (often, with-definite-article) In computing.
9. In computing.
10. In computing.
11. A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
12. A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
13. Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
14. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
15. A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
16. The amount of money a player has on the table.
17. In architecture.
18. In architecture.
19. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
20. A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
21. A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
22. The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.

Verb

1. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
2. (transitive) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
3. (broadly, transitive) To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
4. (transitive) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
5. (Australia, US, slang, transitive) To crash; to fall.
6. To operate cumulatively.
7. (transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
8. (informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
9. To have excessive ink transfer.

Opposite of

skip

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stæk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stack

Cognate with Icelandic: stakkur

Cognate with Swedish: stack

Cognate with Danish: stak

Cognate with Norwegian: stakk

In summary

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

Synonyms

pile

heap

pile up

accumulate

rick

heap up

mass

smokestack

mound

mountain

⛰️

chimney

wad

push-down list

push-down stack

cock

pot

stook

batch

load

bundle

bunch

amass

pack

layer

mess

push-down storage

lot

push-down store

haystack

hatful

shock

⚡

collect

good deal

drift

flue

great deal

gather

raft

pick up

peck

muckle

bale

deck

deal

mow

passel

pillar

lump

bookshelf

assemble

Translations

Stapel

pila

pilha

pile

aufhäufen

entasser

pila

aufstapeln

stos

accatastare

acumular

empiler

anhäufen

ansammeln

mucchio

Sentences

Suited connectors can be especially effective in deep stack poker .