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Stacks

noun
1.
A large number or amount.  Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads.  "She amassed stacks of newspapers"
2.
Storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored.


Stack

noun
1.
An orderly pile.
2.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: 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, tidy sum, wad.  "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"
3.
A list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO).  Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack.
4.
A large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated.  Synonym: smokestack.
5.
A storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO).  Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store.
verb
(past & past part. stacked; pres. part. stacking)
1.
Load or cover with stacks.
2.
Arrange in stacks.  Synonyms: heap, pile.  "Stack your books up on the shelves"
3.
Arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances.



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"Stacks" Quotes from Famous Books



... so bad; it's the way she stacks it up," remarked another. "But, then, these little fly-bit cow-towns are all alike and all bad, so ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland
... durn stuck on a gun fight after you've been in one or two," said McHale grimly. "Now let's see how she stacks up. I'm goin' to hide out for a spell, but if I was you I'd go back and stand ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... broken tiles which had been thrown on to the heads of the cavalry as they galloped through the principal thoroughfares. Carabineers, with revolvers in hand, were dragging themselves on their stomachs along the roofs, trying to surprise the rioters who were hiding behind chimney-stacks. Some one shouted: "Cut the electric wires," and men were clambering up the tall posts ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine
... Thorpe vaguely wondered why. After a time he himself put on his overcoat and ventured out into the town. It seemed to Thorpe a meager affair, built of lumber, mostly unpainted, with always the dark, menacing fringe of the forest behind. The great saw mill, with its tall stacks and its row of water-barrels—protection against fire—on top, was the dominant note. Near the mill crouched a little red-painted structure from whose stovepipe a column of white smoke rose, attesting the cold, ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White
... "Oh, stacks of them. I spent all one Saturday afternoon pasting them in an album as big as this table. They made a perfect fireside grand tour for me. What did you like best in ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison


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