| stack | | |
| n. (group) | 1. stack | an orderly pile. |
| ~ cumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound | a collection of objects laid on top of each other. |
| ~ hayrick, haystack, rick | a stack of hay. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (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" |
| ~ large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. |
| ~ deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ haymow | a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation. |
| n. (communication) | 3. push-down list, push-down stack, stack | a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO). |
| ~ list, listing | a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics). |
| n. (artifact) | 4. smokestack, stack | a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated. |
| ~ chimney | a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building. |
| ~ funnel | (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship). |
| n. (artifact) | 5. push-down storage, push-down store, stack | a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO). |
| ~ memory device, storage device | a device that preserves information for retrieval. |
| v. (contact) | 6. stack | load or cover with stacks.; "stack a truck with boxes" |
| ~ load, load up, lade, laden | fill or place a load on.; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay" |
| v. (contact) | 7. heap, pile, stack | arrange in stacks.; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| ~ rick | pile in ricks.; "rick hay" |
| ~ cord | stack in cords.; "cord firewood" |
| v. (contact) | 8. stack | arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances.; "stack the deck of cards" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| pile up | | |
| v. (change) | 1. accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up | collect or gather.; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| ~ backlog | accumulate and create a backlog. |
| ~ accrete | grow or become attached by accretion.; "The story accreted emotion" |
| ~ drift | be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current.; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow" |
| v. (contact) | 2. heap up, pile up, stack up | arrange into piles or stacks.; "She piled up her books in my living room" |
| ~ gather, pull together, collect, garner | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| v. (possession) | 3. accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| ~ run up | pile up (debts or scores). |
| ~ corral | collect or gather.; "corralling votes for an election" |
| ~ collect, pull in | get or bring together.; "accumulate evidence" |
| ~ scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up | gather (money or other resources) together over time.; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" |
| ~ chunk, lump | put together indiscriminately.; "lump together all the applicants" |
| ~ bale | make into a bale.; "bale hay" |
| ~ catch | take in and retain.; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater" |
| ~ fund | accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability.; "fund a medical care plan" |
| ~ fund | place or store up in a fund for accumulation. |
| ~ hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, put in | keep or lay aside for future use.; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" |
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