- [countable] stack (of something) a pile of something, usually neatly arranged
- a stack of books
- She added her tray to the stack.
Extra Examples- She brought us a stack of pancakes covered with syrup.
- There was a towering stack of containers ready to be loaded onto the ship.
- [countable] stack (of something) (informal, especially British English) a large number or amount of something; a lot of something
- stacks of money
- There's a stack of unopened mail waiting for you at the house.
- I've got stacks of work to do.
- [countable] a tall chimney, especially on a factory see also chimney stack, smokestack
- the stacks[plural] the part of a library, sometimes not open to the public, where books that are not often needed are stored
- The books you need will have to be brought up from the stacks.
- [countable] (computing) a way of storing information in a computer in which the most recently stored item is the first to be retrieved (= found or got back)Topics Computersc2
- [countable] (geology) a tall thin part of a cliff that has been separated from the land and stands on its own in the sea
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse stakkr ‘haystack’, of Germanic origin.
Idioms
See stack in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee stack in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishblow your top
(North American English also blow your stack)
- (informal) to get very angry
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