I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pile/stack of boxes
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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 )
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They may be able to build a life for themselves, but the odds are stacked against them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
tall
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Even official sources now accept that tall stacks tend to increase long-range transport of pollution.
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Mike was slicing his fork through a tall stack of pancakes covered with pretty syrup.
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Such episodes are commoner than the planners of tall stacks assumed.
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The only traffic in the whole area consisted of chugging yellow Navy tugboats which emitted heavy black smoke from their tall stacks .
■ NOUN
chimney
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Due to high winds the chimney stack became unsafe.
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There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.
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The chimney stack was too high to consider pushing it down, so I had to try fishing it out.
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Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack .
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Above the kitchen chimney stack , the sky quavers on a high inaudible note.
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Every room has a fireplace and the double chimney stack rises through the steeply-pitched hipped roof.
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Nearly falling off the roof in fright, Hilary grabbed frantically at the chimney stack to keep her balance.
soil
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From the gully a pipe leads to an inspection chamber which may also have the soil stack connected to it.
■ VERB
blow
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Tristan last blew its stack in 1961, forcing a complete evacuation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blow your top/stack/cool
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My father blew his top when I told him I was quitting medical school.
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I used to get so angry on the set that one day I just blew my top and hit John Huston.
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It had me rolling on the floor to see Schmeichel blowing his top at the scum defence.
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It was unusual for Hauser to blow his top.
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Striker Slaven blew his top after being axed from the side which grabbed a draw at Bristol City in midweek.
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Then Nature blows her top, just to remind us.
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Then suddenly he blew his top while walking down the street one day.
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Tristan last blew its stack in 1961, forcing a complete evacuation.
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Whether the Ipswich directors who watched him blow his top with the unwitting journalist believe that is debatable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a stack of sales brochures
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Next to the bottles was a tall stack of plastic cups.
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The whole stack fell over, and half the plates got broken.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A stack of copies was piled up at the entrance to the Arts Lab.
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After he had gone, she stared blankly at the stack of boxes he had left.
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He built up neat stacks in order of priority, slipped rubber bands around them, dropped them in his briefcase.
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I said hello and sat down on a stack of C-ration cases.
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Impale each stack with a bamboo stick to hold the bales in place.
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Manion turned off the engine, picked up his stack of envelopes, and locked the car.
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Next, Heath argues, CPU-specific issues like register stacks and context switching need to be standardised.
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The only limit placed on the depth of nesting is the room available for the stack .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
neatly
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Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade.
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The wedding platform was made of slats which rested on top of neatly stacked bricks.
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Wood is stacked neatly along one wall of his workroom.
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It should be neatly stacked and clearly labelled.
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On one level are what appear to be rolls of cardboard, stacked neatly .
up
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At the very least, he would have to reckon on the 21 votes in the Cabinet being stacked up against him.
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When he is hearing a case, the phone messages stack up .
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On the far side, by the window, there were plates stacked up in the sink.
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Cars stack up behind every bus, while passengers queue to pay their fares.
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They got it all stacked up against you before you walk through the door.
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When old Aaron Tyson from Limestone Hill sold to the greengrocer's the turnips he'd stacked up for his sheep.
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Twisted, starved, naked bodies stacked up like cordwood or tossed into great open pits.
■ NOUN
box
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In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
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He proceeded slowly, hands clenched in his pockets, eyes scanning labels on the stacked boxes .
deck
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The real blame lies with the licence granted to employers by a statutory regime which stacks every deck in their favour.
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One set of figures shook me awake: Zorig had been right about the stacked deck .
pile
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Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic.
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Ready to fire, the shell was stacked on a pile near the gun crew.
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When they had sorted the collection completely, they stacked each set in piles .
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Inside the truck I could see what looked like a thousand frozen turkeys stacked up like a pile of stones.
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During the morning the accumulated household junk had been stacked in piles beside the steps.
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Bunches of bananas are stacked in tidy piles .
plate
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Then the legs would be stacked on plates and the remainder of the meat sliced to make sandwiches.
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He had undressed forty-five-pound weight bars, stacked plates , and dumbbells on the floor.
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Shirley began to stack the plates .
shelf
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The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort.
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Some wear casual shirts and jeans, their Reeboks and Nikes stacked in shoe shelves by the door.
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The business grew Topsy-like as Dixons stacked its shelves with electrical and photographic equipment from low-cost suppliers in the Far East.
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They were stacked on the shelf .
wall
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Wood is stacked neatly along one wall of his workroom.
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My suitcases were stacked against the wall along with those of the boys which contained the rest of their clothes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Boxes were stacked in the corner.
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I'll start stacking the chairs.
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My kids leave dirty plates stacked up in the sink until I get home.
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These chairs are designed to stack easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bundles of papers and box files were stacked on termite-proof metal shelves but their labels had faded.
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I would stack this wood aside against the days I had visitors.
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In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
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Long, thin sandalwood logs sprinkled with incense were stacked on it.
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On the far side, by the window, there were plates stacked up in the sink.
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This chart, from an Intelrun benchmark called Spec95, gives a rough idea of how the two chip families stack up.
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Underneath some shabby canvas tarps on the cargo deck were stacked a dozen bulky mattresses and twenty thick pine boards.
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Walls are stacked to the ceiling with lampshades in all sizes and shapes.