English Explanatory Dictionary

stack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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 pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
  4. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
  5. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
  6. An extensive collection
  7. A smokestack.
  8. In computing.
  9. A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
  10. A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
  11. An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
  12. A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
verb
  1. To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  2. To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
  3. To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  4. To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  5. To crash; to fall.
  6. To operate cumulatively.
  7. To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
  8. To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
  9. To have excessive ink transfer.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/stæk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-stack.wav en-au-stack.ogg

Word forms

stack stacks stacking stacked

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

protocol stack technology stack build up stack up accumulate agglomerate amass cumulate heap heap up mound pile pile up rack up stack upheap smash wreck

Antonyms

skip

Related words

stackable stacked stack it unstack

Derived words

blow one's stack bookstack cactus stack call stack chimney stack deep stack doublestack downstack drystack effective stack size flare stack font stack full-stack full stack half stack haystack holding stack interstack keep it a stack libo stack mack ministack multistack non-stack peatstack piezostack poststack progressive stack protocol stack saguaro stack sea stack sea-stack short stack smash the stack smokestack soil stack solution stack spaghetti stack speed stack stackage stackback stack-based stack chips stack effect stack frame stackful stackgarth stack-guard stack interchange stackless stack light stack machine stack process stack rank stack ranking stack room stackroom stack smashing stacks of wax stacks on

Translations

Albanian: rafte Arabic: كَوْمَة Arabic: كُومَة Arabic: كومة Armenian: կույտ Azerbaijani: taya Belarusian: сто́пка Belarusian: стос Belarusian: ку́па Bulgarian: куп Bulgarian: ку́пчина Chinese Mandarin: 堆 Czech: stoh Czech: štos Czech: kupa Dutch: stapel Esperanto: stako Esperanto: aro Estonian: virn Estonian: kuhi Estonian: pinu Estonian: patakas Estonian: lasu Finnish: pino Finnish: keko Finnish: kasa Finnish: läjä French: pile Galician: pía Galician: morea Galician: meda Georgian: დასტა German: Stapel Greek: στοίβα Hebrew: ערמה Hindi: धुआँरा Hungarian: boglya Irish: stáca Italian: pila Italian: bica Italian: balla di fieno Japanese: 塚 Khmer: គំនរ Korean: 무더기 Middle English: stak Mongolian: бухал Persian: پشته Polish: stos Polish: sterta Portuguese: pilha Quechua: pirwa Romanian: căpiță Romanian: stivă Russian: сто́пка Russian: ки́па Russian: стог Scottish Gaelic: cruach Serbo-Croatian: сто̑г Serbo-Croatian: stȏg Sicilian: pila Slovak: stoh Slovak: kopa Spanish: pila Spanish: montón Spanish: hacina Spanish: arcina Spanish: almiar Spanish: rimero Tajik: тӯда Turkish: yığın
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