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English

Alternative forms

• pacquet (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pak.?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæk.?t/

Noun

packet (plural packets)

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

2. (nautical) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
3. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
4. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
5. (South Africa) A plastic bag.
   • 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
6. (colloquial) A manbulge.
7. (informal) A large amount of money.

Derived terms

• fag packet

Translations

Verb

packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

1. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
   • 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble

     Her husband was packeted to France.

3. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
4. (transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
   • 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace

     Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]

Translations

See also

• datagram
• packetlike
• packet radio
• packet switching, packet-switching

Further reading

• packet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• packet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ptacek, peck at

German

Alternative forms

• packt

Pronunciation

Verb

packet

1. imperative plural of packen

Portuguese

Noun

packet m (plural packets)

1. (networking) packet (small fragment of data)

Swedish

Noun

packet

1. definite singular of pack

English

Etymology

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), from Proto-Indo-European *steg- (“pole; rod; stick; stake”). Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

stack (plural stacks)

1. (heading) A pile.
   1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
      • c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm

        But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.

   2. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

   3. (Britain) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
   4. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
   5. An extensive collection
      • 1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less

        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'.

      • 2005, Elizabeth McLeod, The Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial, McFarland ?ISBN, page 26

        “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

      • 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

        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

2. A smokestack.
3. (heading) In computing.
   1. (programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).

      Hyponym: history stack

   2. (computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
      • 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, p.47:

        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.

   3. An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).

      Synonym: protocol stack

   4. A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
      • 2016, John Paul Mueller, AWS For Admins For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 323

        A Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack is a configuration of four popular products for hosting websites.

      Synonym: technology stack

4. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
5. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
7. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
8. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.

9. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
10. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
11. (heading) In architecture.
    1. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
    2. A vertical drainpipe.
12. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
13. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
14. (aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
15. (video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.

Derived terms

• chimney stack
• flare stack (synonym of flare tower)
• full-stack
• protocol stack
• technology stack

Translations

Verb

stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

   Synonyms: build up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up

2. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

3. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.

4. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
   • 2017 July 26, Lindsay Murdoch, "Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, faces financial ruin and jail", in smh.com.au, The Sydney Morning Herald;

     In 2015 the country's military-stacked national assembly impeached her and banned her from political office over the scheme, which her government introduced after she had campaigned in 2011 promising to support the rural poor.

   Synonym: gerrymander

5. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
   • 1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43,

     Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I?ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.

   • 1984, Jack Hibberd, A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays, page 80,

     MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.

     JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.

   • 2002, Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt, page 19,

     Eventually he sideswiped a bus and forced other cars to collide, and as he finally stacked the car up on a bridge abutment, he passed out, perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps from his head hitting the windshield.

   • 2007, Martin Chipperfield, slut talk, Night Falling, 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,

     oh shit danny, i stacked the car / ran into sally, an old school friend / you stacked the car? / so now i need this sally?s address / for the insurance, danny says

   Synonyms: smash, wreck

6. (gaming) To operate cumulatively.

7. (aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
8. (informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.

Translations

Related terms

• stackable
• stacked
• unstack
• stack it

Anagrams

• ATCKs, Tacks, sackt, tacks

Middle English

Etymology 1

See stak.

Noun

stack

1. Alternative form of stak

Etymology 2

See stake.

Noun

stack

1. Alternative form of stake

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse stakkr.

Noun

stack c

1. a stack (e.g. of hay), a pile (e.g. of manure)
2. an ant farm, an ant colony
3. a stack (in computer memory)

Declension

Related terms

• gödselstack
• höstack
• myrstack

See also

• stackare
• stapel

Verb

stack

1. past tense of sticka.

Anagrams

• tacks