different between stack vs cluster
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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cluster
English
Etymology
From Middle English cluster, from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klus-, *klas- (“to clump, lump together”) + Proto-Germanic *-þr? (instrumental suffix), related to Low German Kluuster (“cluster”), dialectal Dutch klister (“cluster”), Swedish kluster (“cluster”), Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kl?st?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?kl?st?/
- Rhymes: -?st?(r)
Noun
cluster (plural clusters)
- A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- a cluster of islands
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
- Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, / Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
- A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
- (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
- (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
- examples of clusters would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"
- (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
- (phonetics) A group of consonants.
- (computing) A group of computers that work together.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
- (statistics, cluster analysis) A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
- (military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
- (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
- (slang, euphemistic) A clusterfuck.
- (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
cluster (third-person singular simple present clusters, present participle clustering, simple past and past participle clustered)
- (intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
- The children clustered around the puppy.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Oenone
- His sunny hair / Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- the princes of the country […] clustering together
- 1997, Lynn Keller, Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women, University of Chicago Press, ?ISBN, chapter 6, 281:
- On the page, “Me” is irregular but—except for a prominent drawing of a two-toned hieroglyphic eye—not radically unusual: the lines are consistently left-justified; their length varies from one to a dozen syllables; they cluster in stanzalike units anywhere from one to six lines long that are separated by consistent spaces.
- (transitive) To collect into clusters.
- (transitive) To cover with clusters.
Translations
Anagrams
- culters, curlest, custrel, cutlers, relucts
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English cluster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kl?s.t?r/
- Hyphenation: clus?ter
- Rhymes: -?st?r
Noun
cluster f or m or m (plural clusters, diminutive clustertje n)
- cluster
- (astronomy) star cluster
- Synonyms: sterrencluster, sterrenhoop, sterrenzwerm
Derived terms
- sterrencluster
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English cluster.
Noun
cluster m (plural clusters)
- cluster
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English cluster.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?kl?s.te?/
Noun
cluster m (plural clusters)
- (music) cluster (chord of three or more notes)
- (computing) cluster (group of computers working concurrently)
Spanish
Noun
cluster m (plural clusters or cluster)
- Alternative spelling of clúster
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