stack
/stæk/ noun B2- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last. · Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- An extensive collection
- A smokestack.
- A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
- A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture). · A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.
Plural stacks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A small timber-yard still exists, however, at the back of the house, and last night, about twelve o’clock, an alarm was given that one of the stacks was on fire.
The engines were soon upon the spot, but the dry wood burned with great fury, and it was impossible to arrest the conflagration until the stack had been entirely consumed.
The police theory is that a most sensational crime has been committed, that the victim was clubbed to death in his own bedroom, his papers rifled, and his dead body dragged across to the wood-stack, which was then ignited so as to hide all traces of the crime.
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