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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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?t, IPA^(key): /n?t/
• (General American) enPR: n?t, IPA^(key): /n?t/
• Homophones: not, naught (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); (cognate with Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte); compare also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur). Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”), compare Latin n?dus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of node.

Noun

knot (plural knots)

1. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.

   Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.

2. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.

   The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.

3. A maze-like pattern.
4. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).

   A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.

       A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that rope and then extend the working end to merge it with the standing end, yielding a mathematical knot. If the knot is attached to a metal ring, then that metal ring can be modeled as a trivial knot and the pair of knots become a link. If more than one mathematical knot (or link) can be thus obtained, then the simplest one (avoiding detours) is probably the one which one would want.

5. A difficult situation.

   I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.

   • 1664, Robert South, A Sermon Preached Before the University at Christ-Church, Oxon

     A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.

6. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.

   When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.

7. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

   Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.

8. A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
9. A protuberant joint in a plant.
10. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
    • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine

      With lips severely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat.

11. the swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae
12. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

    the knot of the tale

13. (engineering) A node.
14. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
15. A group of people or things.
    • 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,

      He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.

16. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
    • 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead

      ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed

17. (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹?₁₂₀ of a mile.)

    Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.

18. (nautical) A nautical mile
19. (slang) The bulbus glandis
20. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
    • 2014, Mark Shrayber, "'Knotting' Is the Weird Fanfic Sex Trend That Cannot Be Unseen", Jezebel, 18 July 2014:

      Since the knot won't release until the alpha has finished and can't be controlled by either party, the sex has to go on until it's done.

    • 2017, Taylor Boulware, "Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake", dissertation submitted to the University of Washington, page 155:

      The pair cannot separate until the knot has subsided – anywhere from twenty minutes to hours, depending on the fic.

    • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:

      When John bites down on Sherlock's neck as his knot locks them together, the act which would otherwise be a tool for domination only reinforces the existing emotional bonds they have for each other.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:knot.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (whorl in wood): shake

Verb

knot (third-person singular simple present knots, present participle knotting, simple past and past participle knotted)

1. (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.

   We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites

     as tight as I could knot the noose

2. (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.

   She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.

3. To unite closely; to knit together.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

4. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
5. (intransitive) To form knots.
6. (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.

Synonyms

• (form into a knot): bind, tie
• (form wrinkles in forehead): knit
• (unite closely): attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
• (entangle or perplex): baffle, flummox; see also Thesaurus:confuse

Antonyms

• (form into a knot): loosen, unbind, unknot, untie

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.

Noun

knot (plural knots or knot)

1. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
   • c.1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Red Knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tkon, Tonk, tonk

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?knot]

Noun

knot m

1. A candle wick

Declension

Further reading

• knot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• knot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kn?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch cnudde, Old Dutch *knotto, from Proto-Germanic *knuttan-, *knuttô.

Related to knod, English knot, West Frisian knotte, Middle High German Knotze, German Knoten, Danish knude, Norwegian knute, Swedish knut, etc.

Noun

knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)

1. A knot, bun (of hair), skein
2. The top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
3. A flax seed box
4. (dialect) A marble to play with
5. A prank, joke

Derived terms

• knotten (verb)
• knotrank
• knottenkaf n
• haarknot
• vlasknot
• beknotten (verb)

Related terms

• knotwilg

Etymology 2

From the cognate English knot, possibly influenced by Vulgar Latin canutus (“grey-headed", "grizzled”)

Noun

knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)

1. The bird species Calidris canutus (syn. Tringa canutis)

Synonyms

• kanoetstrandloper m
• kanoetvogel m

Anagrams

• kont

Middle English

Noun

knot

1. Alternative form of knotte

Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German knotze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kn?t/

Noun

knot m inan (diminutive knotek or knocik)

1. wick (of a candle)

Declension

Further reading

• knot in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• knot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kr?t?.

Noun

knot m anim

1. mole, talpid (mammal of the family Talpidae)