Stack

What “Stack” means

Noun

1. A pile.
2. A pile.
3. A pile.
4. A pile.
5. A pile.

Verb

1. To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
2. To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
3. To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
4. To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
5. To crash; to fall.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”). The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

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