Meaning of Stack | Babel Free

Definitions

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 surname.
4. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
5. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
   UK
6. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
7. An extensive collection
8. A smokestack.
9. In computing.
10. A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
11. A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
    often, with-definite-article
12. An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
13. A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
14. A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
15. A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
16. Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
17. A large amount of an object.
    figuratively
18. A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
19. The amount of money a player has on the table.
20. In architecture.
21. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
22. A vertical drainpipe.
23. A fall or crash, a prang.
    Australia, slang
24. A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
25. A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
26. The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.

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Examples

“But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.”

“Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.”

“There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;”

“She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.”

““We said, 'Maybe we could come up with a couple of characters doing jokes,'” Correll recalled in 1972. “We had a whole stack of jokes we used to do in these home talent shows”

“Going back to an earlier question, which I think is very important, this question of how you use skills. It is no good having a great stack of skills in a workplace if the employer does not utilise them properly”

“With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.”

“Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.”

“The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.”

“When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.”

“A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.”

“A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites.”

“You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks.”

“They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.”

“"You've got to go all out in a race or you don't get a good time," he said. "But going all out means that you have a few stacks."”

“Fan-shot footage of Bieber’s big stack (not a euphemism) sees the pop singer trying to adjust his pants during a concert in the Canadian city of Saskatoon on Thursday night, 16th June, before an audible “THWACK” can be heard as he falls off the stage.”

“I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.”

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