an orderly pile
Used in a Sentence
stack
How to use stack in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for stack.
Editorial note
Each time you push data to the stack, you decrement the stack pointer.
Examples8
Definitions8
Parts of speech2
Quick take
an orderly pile
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of stack gathered in one view.
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "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)
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for stack.
noun
an orderly pile
noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "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"
See also: batch
noun
a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
noun
a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
See also: smokestack
noun
a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
verb
load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes"
verb
arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
verb
arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"
Example sentences
Each time you push data to the stack, you decrement the stack pointer.
He received a stack of paper over 10 inches high.
They should make an offer to that large number of companies who want one thing more than everything else: Peace of mind based on an integrated stack.
Some documents generate a DOM >20,000 nodes deep, which is evidently too much to fit in typical C stacks, although Gumbo can handle them.
Together with SAP, Microsoft has the most complete enterprise stack imaginable.
Meanwhile, the stuff I did at work didn't actually scratch that itch: it was either huge franchise games I couldn't care less about or technology stack stuff that wasn't an actual game.
It got stuck at a roughly 1-in-a-million failure rate by a long time, until I figured out that it was crashing because of a stack overflow in the testing code, which would recursively sanity-check the produced DOM.
The sheer audacity of sitting down and deciding to reimplement the entire Win32 stack including bugs to the point where DirectX is reimplemented in OpenGL and everything runs natively is just unbelievable.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use stack in a sentence?
Each time you push data to the stack, you decrement the stack pointer.
What does stack mean?
an orderly pile
What part of speech is stack?
stack is commonly used as noun, verb.