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1. A large, usually conical pile of straw or fodder arranged for outdoor storage.

2. An orderly pile, especially one arranged in layers. See Synonyms at heap.

3. Computer Science A section of memory and its associated registers used for temporary storage of information in which the item most recently stored is the first to be retrieved.

4. A group of three rifles supporting each other, butt downward and forming a cone.

a. A chimney or flue.

b. A group of chimneys arranged together.

6. A vertical exhaust pipe, as on a ship or locomotive.

7. An extensive arrangement of bookshelves. Often used in the plural.

8. stacks The area of a library in which most of the books are shelved.

9. A stackup.

10. An English measure of coal or cut wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3.06 cubic meters).

11. Informal A large quantity: a stack of work to do.

v. stacked, stack·ing, stacks

v.tr.

1. To arrange in a stack; pile.

2. To load or cover with stacks or piles: stacked the dishwasher.

a. Games To prearrange the order of (a deck of cards) so as to increase the chance of winning.

b. To prearrange or fix unfairly so as to favor a particular outcome: tried to stack the jury.

4. To direct (aircraft) to circle at different altitudes while waiting to land.

v.intr.

To form a stack.

Phrasal Verb:

stack up Informal

1. To measure up or equal: Their gift doesn't stack up against his.

2. To make sense; add up: Her report just doesn't stack up.

[Middle English stac, from Old Norse stakkr.]

stacka·ble adj.

stacker n.

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Noun	1.	stacks - a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers" dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads, piles large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
	2.	stacks - storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored depository library, library - a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study storage space - the area in any structure that provides space for storage plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

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This year the peasants were doing all the mowing for a third of the hay crop, and the village elder had come now to announce that the hay had been cut, and that, fearing rain, they had invited the counting-house clerk over, had divided the crop in his presence, and had raked together eleven stacks as the owner's share.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Abundant grain lies stored in the byres, and great stacks of wheat are glowing comfortably in the morning sunlight.

Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

On all sides there were waste spaces with only stoves and chimney stacks still standing, and here and there the blackened walls of some brick houses.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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