Stack - English meaning

verb

(of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose.

Usage examples:

A crowd had assembled outside the gates

noun

A leap in which the feet are brought together before landing.

Usage examples:

The assemblés porté traveled a great distance and ended in perfect fifth position.

verb

Create by putting components or members together

noun

A heap, especially of metallic ore or of waste from a mine.

Usage examples:

It must be the worst place i have ever visited - especially the scenic bauxite bings.

exclamation

Indicating a sudden action or event.

Usage examples:

Then, bing, the lights went on

noun

The second letter of the english alphabet

Usage examples:

Mrs. madden gave me a b on my essay for english.

noun

A vertical channel or pipe which conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building.

Usage examples:

A coal fire thrust yellow flames up the chimney

noun

A hollow structure that allows the smoke from a fire inside a building, esp. from a fireplace, to escape to the air outside

noun

A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.

Usage examples:

I have fixed the motor to the table with two clamps

verb

Fasten (something) in place with a clamp.

Usage examples:

The sander is clamped on to the edge of a workbench

noun

A heap of potatoes or other root vegetables stored under straw or earth.

Usage examples:

There is also a theory about making a potato clamp to keep them in over the winter.

verb

Bring or gather together (a number of things).

Usage examples:

He went round the office collecting old coffee cups

adjective

(of a phone call) paid for by the person receiving it.

Usage examples:

A collect call

adverb

(with reference to making a phone call) in a way that is paid for by the person receiving it.

Usage examples:

I called my mother collect

verb

Be carried slowly by a current of air or water.

Usage examples:

The cabin cruiser started to drift downstream

noun

A continuous slow movement from one place to another.

Usage examples:

There was a drift to the towns

noun

A tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening.

Usage examples:

He referred to the fact that he also knows at the present time that the cavity opening was like a f…

verb

Guide or channel (something) through or as if through a funnel.

Usage examples:

Some $12.8 billion was funnelled through the marshall plan

noun

A tube with a wide opening at the top, sides that slope inward, and a narrow opening at the bottom, used for pouring liquids or powders into containers that have small openings

Usage examples:

Pour the batter through a funnel into hot oil., [ i ] the crowd funneled into the theater., [ t ] w…

verb

Cut with rough or heavy blows.

Usage examples:

Hack off the branches and let them fall to the ground

noun

A rough cut, blow, or stroke.

Usage examples:

He was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him

verb

Ride a horse for pleasure or exercise.

Usage examples:

The two riders hacked along the trail through the woods

noun

An untidy collection of objects placed haphazardly on top of each other.

Usage examples:

A heap of cardboard boxes

adverb

A great deal.

Usage examples:

‘how do you like maggie?’ ‘i like you heaps better!’

verb

Put (objects or a loose substance) in a heap.

Usage examples:

She heaped logs on the fire

noun

A stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded.

Usage examples:

He came back to rescue his little hoard of gold

verb

Accumulate (money or valued objects) and hide or store away.

Usage examples:

Thousands of antiques hoarded by a compulsive collector

verb

To collect a large supply of something, more than you need now, often because you think you will not be able to get it later

Usage examples:

Many people hoarded food in wartime.

noun

A heavy or bulky thing that is being carried or is about to be carried.

Usage examples:

In addition to their own food, they must carry a load of up to eighty pounds

verb

Fill (a vehicle, ship, container, etc.) with a large amount of something.

Usage examples:

They go to calais to load up their vans with cheap beer

noun

A large body of matter with no definite shape.

Usage examples:

The sun broke out from behind a mass of clouds

adjective

Involving or affecting large numbers of people or things.

Usage examples:

The film has mass appeal

verb

Assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass.

Usage examples:

Both countries began massing troops in the region

noun

A rounded mass projecting above a surface.

Usage examples:

The bushes were little more than vague mounds beneath the snow

verb

Heap up into a rounded pile.

Usage examples:

Basmati rice was mounded on our plates

noun

A ball representing the earth, used as part of royal regalia, e.g. on top of a crown, typically of gold and surmounted by a cross.

Usage examples:

The importance of this conclusion to brook was that it seemed to supply evidence that there had bee…

noun

A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill.

Usage examples:

We set off down the mountain

noun

A heap of things laid or lying one on top of another.

Usage examples:

He placed the books in a neat pile

verb

Place (things) one on top of the other.

Usage examples:

She piled all the groceries on the counter

verb

Strengthen or support (a structure) with piles.

Usage examples:

An earlier bridge may have been piled

noun

A monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient egypt.

Usage examples:

The ancient egyptians used the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and temples for their gods.

verb

Stack or arrange in the shape of a pyramid.

Usage examples:

What is the " best " way to do the gene pyramiding?

noun

A loosely piled heap.

Usage examples:

A rickle of bones

noun

A chimney or funnel for discharging smoke from a locomotive, ship, factory, etc.

Usage examples:

Jutting from the murky orange sunset behind them, the cathedral's three steeples, flanked by the cu…

noun

A large accumulated stock of goods or materials, especially one held in reserve for use at a time of shortage or other emergency.

Usage examples:

A stockpile of sandbags was being prepared

verb

Accumulate a large stock of (goods or materials).

Usage examples:

He claimed that the weapons were being stockpiled

noun

A large amount of goods kept ready for future use

Usage examples:

A stockpile of wheat, she stockpiled chocolate bars in her car.

noun

A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed.

Usage examples:

The squirrel has a store of food

verb

Keep or accumulate (something) for future use.

Usage examples:

A small room used for storing furniture

noun

A place where you can buy goods or services

Usage examples:

A grocery/hardware/video store, convenience/department stores, she has a store of anecdotes (= a la…

noun

A tall, narrow building, either free-standing or forming part of a building such as a church or castle.

Usage examples:

The south-west tower is a wonderful example of late gothic

verb

Rise to or reach a great height.

Usage examples:

He seemed to tower over everyone else