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stack

(noun)
1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
2. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
  Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
3. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
4. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
5. A smokestack.
6. A linear data structure in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
7. 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.
8. A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
9. Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
10. A large amount of an object.
11. A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
12. The amount of money a player has on the table.
13. A vertical drain pipe.
(verb)
1. To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  Please stack those chairs in the corner.
2. To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
  This is the third hand in a row you've drawn a four-of-a-kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
3. To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  I won Jill's last 0 this hand; I stacked her!
4. To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.

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