stack

CEFRB1

/stæk/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A neat pile of things placed one on another.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A pile., A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

Examples

  • If you stack the dishes up by the sink, I'll do them later.

  • Only one stack had a real bill on top.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

  2. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

  3. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)

More examples

In context

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

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

  • 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

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Quick test

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Origin

noun

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.