Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be âsatanic.â However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
STACK
smokestack, stack
(noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
stack
(noun) an orderly pile
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
(noun) (often followed by âofâ) a large number or amount or extent; âa batch of lettersâ; âa deal of troubleâ; âa lot of moneyâ; âhe made a mint on the stock marketâ; âsee the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photosâ; âit must have cost plentyâ; âa slew of journalistsâ; âa wad of moneyâ
stack
(verb) arrange the order of so as to increase oneâs winning chances; âstack the deck of cardsâ
stack, pile, heap
(verb) arrange in stacks; âheap firewood around the fireplaceâ; âstack your books up on the shelvesâ
stack
(verb) load or cover with stacks; âstack a truck with boxesâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
stack (plural stacks)
(heading) A pile.
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
(UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
An extensive collection
A smokestack.
(heading) In computing.
(programming) A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved;
Hyponym: history stack
(computing) A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
A standard set of software components commonly used together on a system â for example, the combination of an operating system, web server, database and programming language.
Synonym: technology stack
(math) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
(geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
(library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
(figuratively) A large amount of an object.
(military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
(heading) In architecture.
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
A vertical drainpipe.
(Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
(bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
(aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
Verb
stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)
(transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
Synonyms: build up, stack up, Thesaurus:pile up
(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
(transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
(transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
Synonym: gerrymander
(transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
Synonyms: smash, wreck
(gaming) To operate cumulatively.
(aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
(informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
Anagrams
• ATCKs, Tacks, sackt, tacks
Proper noun
Stack
A surname.
Anagrams
• ATCKs, Tacks, sackt, tacks
Source: Wiktionary
Stack, a. Etym: [Icel. stakkr; akin to Sw. stack, Dan. stak. Sf. Stake.]
1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.
2. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height. Bacon.
3. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. [Eng.]
4. (Arch.) (a) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence: (b) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. (Computer programming) (a) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved. (b) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack, as, a push-down stack. Stack of arms (Mil.), a number of muskets or rifles set up together, with the bayonets crossing one another, forming a sort of conical self-supporting pile.
Stack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Stacking.] Etym: [Cf. Sw. stacka, Dan. stakke. See Stack, n.]
Definition: To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood. To stack arms (Mil.), to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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