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Noun stack has 5 senses
- stack - an orderly pile
--1 is a kind of pile, heap, mound, cumulus
--1 has particulars: haystack, hayrick, rick
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew - (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"; "it must have cost plenty"
--2 is a kind of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
--2 has particulars: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
- push-down list, push-down stack, stack - a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
--3 is a kind of list, listing
- smokestack, stack - a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
--4 is a kind of chimney
--4 has particulars: funnel
- 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)
--5 is a kind of memory device, storage device
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