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Stacks

noun

1.

A large number or amount. Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads. "She amassed stacks of newspapers"

2.

Storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored.

Stack

noun

1.

An orderly pile.

2.

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. Synonyms: 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, tidy sum, wad. "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.

A list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO). Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack.

4.

A large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated. Synonym: smokestack.

5.

A storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO). Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store.

verb

(past & past part. stacked; pres. part. stacking)

1.

Load or cover with stacks.

2.

Arrange in stacks. Synonyms: heap, pile. "Stack your books up on the shelves"

3.

Arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances.

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"Stacks" Quotes from Famous Books

... that awoke me was the "cheerily" song of the sailors, as the anchor was heaved—not again, we trusted, to be lowered till our eyes should rest on the waters of Port Philip. And then the cry of "raise tacks and sheets" (which I, in nautical ignorance, interpreted "hay-stacks and sheep") sent many a sluggard from their berths to bid a last farewell to the banks ...

— A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53. • Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacey

... punishment, one of them went to the door of a gate-house, and flinging it back, bade me look in. That was a sight! It was full of great masses of arms and all sorts of soldiers' and Boxers' clothing; and tied up in bundles of blue cloth were stacks of booty, consisting of furs and silks, all made ready to be carried away. This was evidently one of the many district headquarters which the Boxers had established everywhere. My men had known it, because these things ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

... scraps of news from the morning paper; they read out bits of home news from their stacks of correspondence, written for the most part on eight pages and in the sprawling, uncontrolled script of the woman who has nothing but trivialities with which to fill ...

— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest

... is more marked with her than with any other of our birds. Her feeding and twig-gathering seem like asides in a life of endless play. Several times both in spring and fall I have seen swifts gather in immense numbers toward nightfall, to take refuge in large unused chimney-stacks. On such occasions they seem to be coming together for some aerial festival or grand celebration; and, as if bent upon a final effort to work off a part of their superabundant wing-power before settling ...

— Bird Stories from Burroughs - Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs • John Burroughs

... who stacks in to explain things. 'Every gent's got his ideal; an' this yere wife of his is Dead ...

— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis

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