STACK
What does "STACK" mean?
A neat pile of objects arranged one on top of another.
Meanings
- An orderly heap of items placed one above another. A stack of unread books leaned beside her bed.
- To arrange or pile in a stack. He stacked the chairs after the meeting.
- A data structure where the last item added is the first removed (last-in, first-out). The function call pushes a new frame onto the stack. technical
- A tall industrial chimney. Smoke curled from the factory's twin stacks.
Did you know?
- In computer science, a stack is 'last-in, first-out': the last plate you put on a pile is the first you take off, which is exactly how a program's call stack unwinds function calls.
Word origin
From Old Norse 'stakkr', meaning a haystack or pile, entering Middle English in the 13th century.
A little poem
Plates wait in a tower-
the last one set down is first
to feel a warm hand.
haiku
Wordplay
- I tried to explain the stack data structure to the dishwasher, but it just kept saying the last thing I told it first.
What it teaches
What you place on top today is the first thing you'll have to deal with tomorrow.
Quick facts
What does STACK mean?
A neat pile of objects arranged one on top of another.
Is STACK a valid word?
Yes — STACK is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is STACK?
STACK has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does STACK come from?
From Old Norse 'stakkr', meaning a haystack or pile, entering Middle English in the 13th century.
What can STACK teach us?
What you place on top today is the first thing you'll have to deal with tomorrow.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.