Tra từ stack - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pile/stack of boxes
▪ There was a pile of boxes in the street outside the house.
chimney stack
the odds are stacked against sb (=there are a lot of difficulties that may prevent someone’s success)
▪ They may be able to build a life for themselves, but the odds are stacked against them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
tall
▪ Even official sources now accept that tall stacks tend to increase long-range transport of pollution.
▪ Mike was slicing his fork through a tall stack of pancakes covered with pretty syrup.
▪ Such episodes are commoner than the planners of tall stacks assumed.
▪ The only traffic in the whole area consisted of chugging yellow Navy tugboats which emitted heavy black smoke from their tall stacks.
NOUN
chimney
▪ Due to high winds the chimney stack became unsafe.
▪ There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.
▪ The chimney stack was too high to consider pushing it down, so I had to try fishing it out.
▪ Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack.
▪ Above the kitchen chimney stack, the sky quavers on a high inaudible note.
▪ Every room has a fireplace and the double chimney stack rises through the steeply-pitched hipped roof.
▪ Nearly falling off the roof in fright, Hilary grabbed frantically at the chimney stack to keep her balance.
soil
▪ From the gully a pipe leads to an inspection chamber which may also have the soil stack connected to it.
VERB
blow
▪ Tristan last blew its stack in 1961, forcing a complete evacuation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blow your top/stack/cool
▪ My father blew his top when I told him I was quitting medical school.
▪ I used to get so angry on the set that one day I just blew my top and hit John Huston.
▪ It had me rolling on the floor to see Schmeichel blowing his top at the scum defence.
▪ It was unusual for Hauser to blow his top.
▪ Striker Slaven blew his top after being axed from the side which grabbed a draw at Bristol City in midweek.
▪ Then Nature blows her top, just to remind us.
▪ Then suddenly he blew his top while walking down the street one day.
▪ Tristan last blew its stack in 1961, forcing a complete evacuation.
▪ Whether the Ipswich directors who watched him blow his top with the unwitting journalist believe that is debatable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stack of sales brochures
▪ Next to the bottles was a tall stack of plastic cups.
▪ The whole stack fell over, and half the plates got broken.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A stack of copies was piled up at the entrance to the Arts Lab.
▪ After he had gone, she stared blankly at the stack of boxes he had left.
▪ He built up neat stacks in order of priority, slipped rubber bands around them, dropped them in his briefcase.
▪ I said hello and sat down on a stack of C-ration cases.
▪ Impale each stack with a bamboo stick to hold the bales in place.
▪ Manion turned off the engine, picked up his stack of envelopes, and locked the car.
▪ Next, Heath argues, CPU-specific issues like register stacks and context switching need to be standardised.
▪ The only limit placed on the depth of nesting is the room available for the stack.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
neatly
▪ Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade.
▪ The wedding platform was made of slats which rested on top of neatly stacked bricks.
▪ Wood is stacked neatly along one wall of his workroom.
▪ It should be neatly stacked and clearly labelled.
▪ On one level are what appear to be rolls of cardboard, stacked neatly.
up
▪ At the very least, he would have to reckon on the 21 votes in the Cabinet being stacked up against him.
▪ When he is hearing a case, the phone messages stack up.
▪ On the far side, by the window, there were plates stacked up in the sink.
▪ Cars stack up behind every bus, while passengers queue to pay their fares.
▪ They got it all stacked up against you before you walk through the door.
▪ When old Aaron Tyson from Limestone Hill sold to the greengrocer's the turnips he'd stacked up for his sheep.
▪ Twisted, starved, naked bodies stacked up like cordwood or tossed into great open pits.
NOUN
box
▪ In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
▪ He proceeded slowly, hands clenched in his pockets, eyes scanning labels on the stacked boxes.
deck
▪ The real blame lies with the licence granted to employers by a statutory regime which stacks every deck in their favour.
▪ One set of figures shook me awake: Zorig had been right about the stacked deck.
pile
▪ Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic.
▪ Ready to fire, the shell was stacked on a pile near the gun crew.
▪ When they had sorted the collection completely, they stacked each set in piles.
▪ Inside the truck I could see what looked like a thousand frozen turkeys stacked up like a pile of stones.
▪ During the morning the accumulated household junk had been stacked in piles beside the steps.
▪ Bunches of bananas are stacked in tidy piles.
plate
▪ Then the legs would be stacked on plates and the remainder of the meat sliced to make sandwiches.
▪ He had undressed forty-five-pound weight bars, stacked plates, and dumbbells on the floor.
▪ Shirley began to stack the plates.
shelf
▪ The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort.
▪ Some wear casual shirts and jeans, their Reeboks and Nikes stacked in shoe shelves by the door.
▪ The business grew Topsy-like as Dixons stacked its shelves with electrical and photographic equipment from low-cost suppliers in the Far East.
▪ They were stacked on the shelf.
wall
▪ Wood is stacked neatly along one wall of his workroom.
▪ My suitcases were stacked against the wall along with those of the boys which contained the rest of their clothes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Boxes were stacked in the corner.
▪ I'll start stacking the chairs.
▪ My kids leave dirty plates stacked up in the sink until I get home.
▪ These chairs are designed to stack easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bundles of papers and box files were stacked on termite-proof metal shelves but their labels had faded.
▪ I would stack this wood aside against the days I had visitors.
▪ In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
▪ Long, thin sandalwood logs sprinkled with incense were stacked on it.
▪ On the far side, by the window, there were plates stacked up in the sink.
▪ This chart, from an Intelrun benchmark called Spec95, gives a rough idea of how the two chip families stack up.
▪ Underneath some shabby canvas tarps on the cargo deck were stacked a dozen bulky mattresses and twenty thick pine boards.
▪ Walls are stacked to the ceiling with lampshades in all sizes and shapes.

stack

I. stack¹ /stæk/ noun
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old Norse; Origin : stakkr]
1. [COUNTABLE]
a neat pile of things ⇨ heap
stack of
　 ▪ a stack of papers
　 ▪ stacks of dirty dishes

2. a stack of something/stacks of something
especially British English informal a large amount of something:
　 ▪ He’s got stacks of money.

3. [COUNTABLE]
a chimney

4. the stacks
[PLURAL]the rows of shelves in a library where the books are kept
⇨ blow your top/stack at blow¹(16)
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THESAURUS
▪pile a group of things of the same type that are put on top of each other :
　 ▪ a huge pile of cardboard boxes
▪stack a neat pile of things of the same type :
　 ▪ There were stacks of books on the floor.
▪heap a large messy pile of things :
　 ▪ All his clothes were in a heap on the floor.
▪mound a pile of something with a round shape :
　 ▪ a small mound of rice on the plate
▪mountain a very large pile of something with a round shape :
　 ▪ a mountain of dirty laundry waiting to be washed

II. stack² verb
1. (also stack up) [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]to make things into a neat pile, or to form a neat pile:
　 ▪ The assistants price the items and stack them on the shelves.
　 ▪ a stacking hi-fi system

2. [TRANSITIVE]
to put neat piles of things on something:
　 ▪ He went back to stacking the shelves.
be stacked with something
　 ▪ The floor was stacked with boxes.

3. the odds/cards are stacked against somebody
used to say that someone is unlikely to be successful

4. stack the cards
British English, stack the deck American English informal to arrange cards dishonestly in a game
stack up phrasal verb
1. stack something ↔ up
to make things into a neat pile

2. informal used to talk about how good something is compared with something else
stack up against
　 ▪ Parents want to know how their kids’ schools stack up against others.

3. if a number of things stack up, they gradually collect or get stuck in one place:
　 ▪ Traffic stacked up behind the bus.