STACK


Meaning of STACK in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a pile/stack of boxes

There was a pile of boxes in the street outside the house.

chimney stack

the odds are stacked against sb (= there are a lot of difficulties that may prevent someone’s success )

They may be able to build a life for themselves, but the odds are stacked against them.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

tall

Even official sources now accept that tall stacks tend to increase long-range transport of pollution.

Mike was slicing his fork through a tall stack of pancakes covered with pretty syrup.

Such episodes are commoner than the planners of tall stacks assumed.

The only traffic in the whole area consisted of chugging yellow Navy tugboats which emitted heavy black smoke from their tall stacks .

■ NOUN

chimney

Due to high winds the chimney stack became unsafe.

There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.

The chimney stack was too high to consider pushing it down, so I had to try fishing it out.

Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack .

Above the kitchen chimney stack , the sky quavers on a high inaudible note.

Every room has a fireplace and the double chimney stack rises through the steeply-pitched hipped roof.

Nearly falling off the roof in fright, Hilary grabbed frantically at the chimney stack to keep her balance.

soil

From the gully a pipe leads to an inspection chamber which may also have the soil stack connected to it.

■ VERB

blow

Tristan last blew its stack in 1961, forcing a complete evacuation.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

blow your top/stack/cool

My father blew his top when I told him I was quitting medical school.

I used to get so angry on the set that one day I just blew my top and hit John Huston.

It had me rolling on the floor to see Schmeichel blowing his top at the scum defence.

It was unusual for Hauser to blow his top.

Striker Slaven blew his top after being axed from the side which grabbed a draw at Bristol City in midweek.

Then Nature blows her top, just to remind us.

Then suddenly he blew his top while walking down the street one day.

Tristan last blew its stack in 1961, forcing a complete evacuation.

Whether the Ipswich directors who watched him blow his top with the unwitting journalist believe that is debatable.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a stack of sales brochures

Next to the bottles was a tall stack of plastic cups.

The whole stack fell over, and half the plates got broken.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A stack of copies was piled up at the entrance to the Arts Lab.

After he had gone, she stared blankly at the stack of boxes he had left.

He built up neat stacks in order of priority, slipped rubber bands around them, dropped them in his briefcase.

I said hello and sat down on a stack of C-ration cases.

Impale each stack with a bamboo stick to hold the bales in place.

Manion turned off the engine, picked up his stack of envelopes, and locked the car.

Next, Heath argues, CPU-specific issues like register stacks and context switching need to be standardised.

The only limit placed on the depth of nesting is the room available for the stack .

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

neatly

Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade.

The wedding platform was made of slats which rested on top of neatly stacked bricks.

Wood is stacked neatly along one wall of his workroom.

It should be neatly stacked and clearly labelled.

On one level are what appear to be rolls of cardboard, stacked neatly .

up

At the very least, he would have to reckon on the 21 votes in the Cabinet being stacked up against him.

When he is hearing a case, the phone messages stack up .

On the far side, by the window, there were plates stacked up in the sink.

Cars stack up behind every bus, while passengers queue to pay their fares.

They got it all stacked up against you before you walk through the door.

When old Aaron Tyson from Limestone Hill sold to the greengrocer's the turnips he'd stacked up for his sheep.

Twisted, starved, naked bodies stacked up like cordwood or tossed into great open pits.

■ NOUN

box

In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.

He proceeded slowly, hands clenched in his pockets, eyes scanning labels on the stacked boxes .

deck

The real blame lies with the licence granted to employers by a statutory regime which stacks every deck in their favour.

One set of figures shook me awake: Zorig had been right about the stacked deck .

pile

Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic.

Ready to fire, the shell was stacked on a pile near the gun crew.

When they had sorted the collection completely, they stacked each set in piles .

Inside the truck I could see what looked like a thousand frozen turkeys stacked up like a pile of stones.

During the morning the accumulated household junk had been stacked in piles beside the steps.

Bunches of bananas are stacked in tidy piles .

plate

Then the legs would be stacked on plates and the remainder of the meat sliced to make sandwiches.

He had undressed forty-five-pound weight bars, stacked plates , and dumbbells on the floor.

Shirley began to stack the plates .

shelf

The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort.

Some wear casual shirts and jeans, their Reeboks and Nikes stacked in shoe shelves by the door.

The business grew Topsy-like as Dixons stacked its shelves with electrical and photographic equipment from low-cost suppliers in the Far East.

They were stacked on the shelf .

wall

Wood is stacked neatly along one wall of his workroom.

My suitcases were stacked against the wall along with those of the boys which contained the rest of their clothes.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Boxes were stacked in the corner.

I'll start stacking the chairs.

My kids leave dirty plates stacked up in the sink until I get home.

These chairs are designed to stack easily.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bundles of papers and box files were stacked on termite-proof metal shelves but their labels had faded.

I would stack this wood aside against the days I had visitors.

In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.

Long, thin sandalwood logs sprinkled with incense were stacked on it.

On the far side, by the window, there were plates stacked up in the sink.

This chart, from an Intelrun benchmark called Spec95, gives a rough idea of how the two chip families stack up.

Underneath some shabby canvas tarps on the cargo deck were stacked a dozen bulky mattresses and twenty thick pine boards.

Walls are stacked to the ceiling with lampshades in all sizes and shapes.

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