B2verb · transitive · common

stack

stack · stacks · stacked · stacking

розбитися, розбиватися

усилить, укрепить, накапливаться

aufbauen, sich türmen, sich ansammeln

To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stackTo arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

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/stæk/

» Tom spent all morning stacking firewood.

Meaning

9 senses

(transitive)To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
Please stack those chairs in the corner.
arrange in stacks
(transitive)To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
(broadly, transitive)To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
to be stacked against (someone)
The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
(transitive)To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
(Australia, US, slang, transitive)To crash; to fall.
Jim couldn't make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
To operate cumulatively.
A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth.
(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.
stapeln
To have excessive ink transfer.

Examples

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Tom spent all morning stacking firewood.
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Tom stacked the dishes in the cupboard.
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Tom came in carrying a stack of books.
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Tom stacked the boxes up against the wall.
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Tom put the stack of receipts into the drawer.
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Translations

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By meaning 1

to place objects or material in the form of a stack:

Origin

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack;

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).

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