Stackname

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  A surname.

stacknoun/stæk/

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  headingA pile.

  • But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
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  headingA pile.

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

  • There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;
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  headingA pile.

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  headingA pile.

  • 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
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  A smokestack.

  • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
  • Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
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  computingengineeringheadingIn computing.

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  computingengineeringheadingIn computing.

  • When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

stackverb/stæk/

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  To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

  • 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.
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  card-gamesgamesTo arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.

  • This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
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  To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).

  • to be stacked against (someone)
  • The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
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  card-gamespokerTo take all the money another player currently has on the table.

  • I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
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  slangTo crash; to fall.

  • 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.
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  gamesgamingTo operate cumulatively.

  • 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.
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  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.

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  informalTo collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.