stack
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/stæk/
English
Definitions
noun
- (heading) A pile.
- A smokestack.
- (heading) In computing.
- A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
verb
- To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.“Please stack those chairs in the corner.”
- To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.“This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!”
- To take all the money another player currently has on the table.“I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!”
- To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).“The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.”