stack
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Is stack a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (heading) A pile.Examples: "But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack."
2. (heading) A pile.Examples: "Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner."
3. (heading) A pile.Examples: "There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;"UK
4. (heading) A pile.
5. (heading) A pile.Examples: "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"
6. (heading) In computing.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.Examples: "Please stack those chairs in the corner."; "James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break."; "Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale."Synonyms: build up, stack up, accumulate, agglomerate, amass, build up, cumulate, heaptransitive
2. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.Examples: "This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!"transitive
3. (transitive, by extension) To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).Examples: "to be stacked against (someone)"; "The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee."; "In 2015 the country's military-stacked national assembly impeached her and banned her from political office over the scheme, which her government introduced after she had campaigned in 2011 promising to support the rural poor."broadlytransitive
4. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.Examples: "I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!"transitive
5. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.Examples: "Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend."; "1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43, Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I′ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases."; "Marmalade: Who stacked the car? (pointing to Saloon) Fangio here. / Jock: (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle."Synonyms: smash, wreckAustraliaUSslangtransitive
6. (gaming) To operate cumulatively.Examples: "A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth."
Definition source: Wiktionary