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an orderly pile
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(often followed by `of’) a large number or amount or extent; “a batch of letters”; “a deal of trouble”; “a lot of money”; “he made a mint on the stock market”; “see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos”; “it must have cost plenty”; “a slew of journalists”; “a wad of money”
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a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
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a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
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a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
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verb
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load or cover with stacks; “stack a truck with boxes”
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arrange in stacks; “heap firewood around the fireplace”; “stack your books up on the shelves”
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arrange the order of so as to increase one’s winning chances; “stack the deck of cards”

