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stack
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)
- (heading) A pile.
- 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.
- c. 1790, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- (Britain) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- 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
- 1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A smokestack.
- (heading) In computing.
- (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
- (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.
- 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, p.47:
- An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
- Synonym: protocol stack
- 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
- 2016, John Paul Mueller, AWS For Admins For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 323
- (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).
- (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
- (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
- (heading) In architecture.
- A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
- A vertical drainpipe.
- (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
- (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
- (aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
- (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)
- (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
- Synonyms: build up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- (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
- 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;
- (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
- 1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43,
- (gaming) To operate cumulatively.
- (aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
- (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
- Alternative form of stak
Etymology 2
See stake.
Noun
stack
- Alternative form of stake
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse stakkr.
Noun
stack c
- a stack (e.g. of hay), a pile (e.g. of manure)
- an ant farm, an ant colony
- a stack (in computer memory)
Declension
Related terms
- gödselstack
- höstack
- myrstack
See also
- stackare
- stapel
Verb
stack
- past tense of sticka.
Anagrams
- tacks
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body
English
Alternative forms
- bodie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English bodi, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“to be awake, observe”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?di/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?di/, [?b??i]
- Rhymes: -?di
- Hyphenation: bod?y
- Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun
body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)
- Physical frame.
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. [from 13th c.]
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- A corpse. [from 13th c.]
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person. [from 13th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:
- Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 28:
- Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
- This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.
- 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations (page 3)
- In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.
- 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies (page 5)
- As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.
- 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
- Main section.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
- The boxer took a blow to the body.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. [from 16th c.]
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. [from 20th c.]
- In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
- Coherent group.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
- Material entity.
- Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence. [from 17th c.]
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
- In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]
- 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "World's largest extrusive body of sand?", Geology, volume 40, issue 5
- Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
- The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
- 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
- Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
- 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, ?Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (page 99)
- The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:body
- See also Thesaurus:corpse
Derived terms
Pages starting with “body”.
Translations
See also
- corporal
- corporeal
Verb
body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)
- To give body or shape to something.
- And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- To construct the bodywork of a car.
- (transitive) To embody.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
- (transitive, slang, video games) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.
References
Anagrams
- BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bod?/
- Rhymes: -od?
- Hyphenation: bo?dy
Etymology 1
From English body, bodysuit.
Noun
body n (indeclinable)
- bodysuit, leotard
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
body
- nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of bod
Anagrams
- doby
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English body.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.di/
- Hyphenation: bo?dy
Noun
body m (plural body's, diminutive body'tje n)
- A leotard.
- Body, substance.
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?body/, [?bo?dy]
- IPA(key): /?bodi/, [?bo?di]
- Rhymes: -ody
- Homophone: bodi
- Syllabification: bo?dy
Noun
body
- snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)
Declension
Pronunciation ?body:
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.di/
Noun
body m (invariable)
- leotard
- Synonym: calzamaglia
Further reading
- body in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Scots
Alternative forms
- bodie
Etymology
From Middle English body, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).
Noun
body (plural bodies)
- body
- person, human being
Spanish
Noun
body m (plural bodys or bodies)
- bodysuit
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