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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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mess
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Etymology 1
Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals".
Noun
mess (countable and uncountable, plural messes)
- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
- Synonyms: disorder; see also Thesaurus:disorder
- (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
- (euphemistic) Excrement.
- (figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mess.
Translations
Verb
mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)
- (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- 1905', Arthur Colton, The Belted Seas
- It wasn't right either to be messing another man's sleep.
- 1905', Arthur Colton, The Belted Seas
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English mes, partly from Old English m?se, m?ose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mitt? (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). See mission, and compare Mass (“religious service”).
Noun
mess (plural messes)
- (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
- (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
- c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel
- a mess of pottage
- c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- Synonym: slaughter
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- Mess (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18:
- Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations...
- 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18:
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
Further reading
- Mess (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- mess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- MSEs, MSes, Mses, Mses., SEMs, SMEs
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- messél, metssz, metsszél
Etymology
metsz +? -j (personal suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m???]
- Hyphenation: mess
- Rhymes: -???
Verb
mess
- second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of metsz
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (massa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?s/
Verb
mess (imperfect jmiss, past participle mimsus)
- to touch
- (figuratively) to touch, to affect
Conjugation
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish mes. Cognate with Irish meas (“fruit, mast”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me?s/
Noun
mess m (genitive singular mess, plural messyn)
- (botany) fruit
Derived terms
- messghart
Mutation
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
mess
- imperative of messe
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- mes
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *messus, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [m?es]
Noun
mess m (genitive messa, nominative plural mesai)
- verbal noun of midithir
- judgment
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55d11
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55d11
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mes(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Swedish
Etymology
Clipping of sms.
Noun
mess n
- (colloquial) text message
- Synonym: sms
Declension
Derived terms
- messa
References
- mess in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mess in Svensk ordbok (SO)
Vilamovian
Noun
mess n
- brass
Related terms
- messera
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