Usually means: Ordered collection allowing last-in, first-out.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. stack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stack: Merriam-Webster
  3. stack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stack: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stack: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stack, stack: Wordnik
  8. stack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stack, Stack, Stack, Stack, Stack: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Stack, stack: Wiktionary
  11. stack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. stack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. stack: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. stack: Dictionary.com
  15. stack: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. stack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. STACK, Stack (Haskell), Stack (abstract data type), Stack (data structure), Stack (disambiguation), Stack (geology), Stack (mathematics), Stack (surname), Stack (unit), Stack, The Stack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Stack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. stack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. stack: Rhymezone
  21. stack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. stack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. stack: FreeDictionary.org
  24. stack: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. stack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. stack: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  5. Stack: Energy Dictionary
  6. Stack (Technology), Stack (computer science), Stack (computing), Stack (programming), Stack (software), The Stack, stack: Legal dictionary

Computing (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. stack: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. stack: Netlingo
  3. stack: CCI Computer
  4. stack: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. stack: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  6. Stack: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. Webopedia (No longer online)
  8. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Stack (Technology), Stack (computer science), Stack (computing), Stack (data structure), Stack (library), Stack (power plant), Stack (programming), Stack (software), The Stack, stack: Encyclopedia
  10. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Stack (Technology), Stack (computer science), Stack (computing), Stack (programming), Stack (software), The Stack, stack: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. STACK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. stack: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Stack: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. stack: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stack, stack, stack, stack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Stack: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. the stack: Urban Dictionary

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Stack: Dan's Poker
  3. Stack: Backgammon
  4. Stack, Stack: Gambling Glossary
  5. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  6. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. STACK: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  4. Stack (trusses): Construction Glossary
  5. stack: Chapters in the Sky
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (heading) A pile.
noun:  A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
noun:  A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
noun:  (UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
noun:  A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
noun:  An extensive collection
noun:  A smokestack.
noun:  (heading) In computing.
noun:  (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).
noun:  (computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
noun:  (networking) An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
noun:  A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
noun:  (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
noun:  (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
noun:  (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
noun:  (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
noun:  (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
noun:  (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
noun:  (heading) In architecture.
noun:  A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
noun:  A vertical drainpipe.
noun:  (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
noun:  (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
noun:  (aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
noun:  (video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
verb:  (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
verb:  (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
verb:  (gaming) To operate cumulatively.
verb:  (aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
verb:  (printing) To have excessive ink transfer.
noun:  A surname.

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