Definitions for stacks

Overview of noun stacks

The noun stacks has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings

(a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers")

2. stacks

(storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored)

Overview of noun stack

The noun stack has 5 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) stack

(an orderly pile)

2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money")

3. push-down list, push-down stack, stack

(a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO))

4. smokestack, stack

(a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated)

5. push-down storage, push-down store, stack

(a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO))

Overview of verb stack

The verb stack has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) stack

(load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes")

2. stack, pile, heap

(arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves")

3. stack

(arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards")