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Definition of Stack
Stack
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.

A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.

A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:

Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.

A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.

A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.

To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.


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Stack Quotations
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
Charles M. Schulz

I don't have a stack of scripts.
Bob Newhart

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
Vic Morrow

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
Cathy Guisewite

That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better.
Leo Kottke

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
Len Wein

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
Michael Chabon


And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.
Star Jones

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
Larry Niven

Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.
Edwin Starr

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Stack Translations
stack in Afrikaans is stapel, klomp
stack in Dutch is ophopen, opeenhopen, accumuleren
stack in French is entasser, stack, gerber, accumuler, pile
stack in German is Stapel, Stapel, sammeln, stapeln
stack in Portuguese is pilha
stack in Swedish is stack, skorsten, stapla






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