noun
- An orderly pile.
- synonyms: stack
- Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
- usage: "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"
- A list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO.
- synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack, stack
- A large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated.
- synonyms: smokestack, stack
- 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, stack
- A large number or amount.
- usage: "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
- Storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored.
verb
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