Stack | Mean of stack in English Dictionary

/ˈstæk/

• Noun
• a usually neat pile
1. He had arranged the letters in stacks.
2. She took a magazine from near the top of the stack.
3. a stack of dishes/papers
• a large amount of something
1. There is a stack of evidence against her.
2. They have stacks of money.
• a tall chimney on a factory, ship, etc., for carrying smoke away

• the rows of shelves where books are stored in a library
1. I couldn't find the book in the stacks.
• Verb
• to arrange (things) in a stack
1. She spent the afternoon splitting and stacking firewood.
2. She stacked the plates in the cupboard.
3. He stacked the books on the table.
4. She stacked the wood up against the fence.
5. The chairs don't stack. [=the chairs cannot be put in a stack; the chairs cannot be stacked]
• to cheat at a card game by arranging (a deck of cards) in a special way
1. The other players accused him of stacking the deck.
• to increase in number or amount to a total that is difficult to deal with
1. Cars quickly stacked up behind the bus.
2. My bills are stacking up. [=piling up]
• to be good enough or equally good
1. The camera doesn't stack up [=measure up] when it comes to performance.
2. This model stacks up well when compared with other cameras. [=the camera is as good as or better than others]
• to compare (something or someone) with others of the same kind
1. How does this computer stack up against other models? [=how good is it compared to other models?]
2. How does he stack up against the other candidates?
3. The camera does pretty well when you stack it up against the competition.