Noun
- 1. stack, pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus
- usage: an orderly pile
- 2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
- usage: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
- 3. push-down list, push-down stack, stack, list, listing
- usage: a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- 4. smokestack, stack, chimney
- usage: a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
- 5. push-down storage, push-down store, stack, memory device, storage device
- usage: a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
Verb
- 1. stack, load, lade, laden, load up
- usage: load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes"
- 2. stack, pile, heap, arrange, set up
- usage: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
- 3. stack, arrange, set up
- usage: arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"
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