Dictionary Entry
stack
stack is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
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.
- 2adjective
A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- 3adjective
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
- 4adjective
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
- 5adjective
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.
- 6adjective
A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
- 7adjective
A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- 10noun
a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
Synonyms
- 11noun
a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- 12noun
an orderly pile
- 13noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
- 14verb
arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
"stack the deck of cards"
- 15verb
arrange in stacks
"heap firewood around the fireplace"
"stack your books up on the shelves"
- 16verb
load or cover with stacks
"stack a truck with boxes"
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