stack – English noun declension

English noun forms of stack

Noun: stack
Singularstack
Pluralstacks

Sample Sentences

  • But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. [c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm:]
  • Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
  • There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height; [1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching the Reflexion, of Sounds.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 249, page 67:]
  • She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'. [1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less:]
  • “We said, 'Maybe we could come up with a couple of characters doing jokes,'” Correll recalled in 1972. “We had a whole stack of jokes we used to do in these home talent shows [2005, Elizabeth McLeod, The Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial, McFarland, →ISBN, page 26:]
  • Going back to an earlier question, which I think is very important, this question of how you use skills. It is no good having a great stack of skills in a workplace if the employer does not utilise them properly [2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education and Skills Committee, Post-16 skills: ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence, The Stationery Office →ISBN, page 42]
  • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. [1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load. [1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:]
  • The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable. [1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:]
  • When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack. [1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:]
  • A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.
  • A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites. [2016, John Paul Mueller, AWS For Admins For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 323:]
  • A boat's-crew landed one time upon one of the stacks with the intention of attacking the seals. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 266:]
  • You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks. [1994, The Magnetic Fields, “Swinging London”, in Holiday:]
  • They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.
  • "You've got to go all out in a race or you don't get a good time," he said. "But going all out means that you have a few stacks." [1989 April 9, Ian Watt, “Canberra skier wins medals”, in The Canberra Times, retrieved 07 Aug 2022:]
  • Fan-shot footage of Bieber’s big stack (not a euphemism) sees the pop singer trying to adjust his pants during a concert in the Canadian city of Saskatoon on Thursday night, 16th June, before an audible “THWACK” can be heard as he falls off the stage. [2016 June 19, Tom Williams, “Watch Justin Bieber Stack It, Fall Off Stage While Fixing His Pants”, in Music Feeds, Evolve Media, retrieved 17 Nov 2020:]
  • I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.

Etymology

1. From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).
2. The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna. See: Middle English Nouns 'stack', Old Norse Nouns 'stakkr', Dutch Nouns 'stapel', Icelandic Nouns 'stakkur', Swedish Nouns 'stack', Danish Nouns 'stak'.

Verbs referencing "stack"

Finnish Nouns sauna, Irish Nouns staca, Latin Nouns tignum.