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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