stacks

Vertical arrangements of items

Stacks are things piled one atop another: a stack of books, a stack of pancakes, a stack of bills.

A smokestack releases exhaust vertically.

Library stacks are shelving areas.

In computing, a stack is a data structure where the last item added is the first removed.

In slang, stacks means large amounts of money: He's got stacks.

To be stacked against someone means circumstances favor their opponent.

piles

heap

Jumbled collection of items

  • pileAccumulated mass of objects
  • moundHeaped earth formation
  • towerTall slender edifice

accumulation · stockpile · collection · arrangement · papers · dishes · books · coins · chips · boxes

library

shelves

Horizontal storage platforms

librarian · archives · reference · periodicals · manuscripts · classification · research · volumes · borrowing · reading

abundance

loads

Large quantities

  • tonsLarge quantities, informally
  • heapsLarge informal quantities
  • plentySufficient quantity, and then some

lots · masses · oodles · piles · volumes · quantities · multitude · excess · surplus · wealth

computing

array

Ordered collection or display

  • queueOrdered waiting line
  • LIFOReverse-order processing method
  • pushForce something away

pop · overflow · pointer · recursion · memory · allocation · heap · buffer · call · execution

money

cash

Ready spending funds

bills · currency · winnings · poker · casino · betting · gambling · denominations · counting · bundled

smokestacks

chimney

Vertical smoke passage

factory · refinery · ventilation · flue · emissions · pollution · plume · tower · boiler · furnace

physique

muscles

Contractile body tissue

buff · gains · swole · shredded · fit · athletic · gym · training · bulk · physique

Categories
Opposites
arrangement/organization

stacksscattered

Spread irregularly about

strewn · dispersed · spread out · jumbled · disordered

ACTION (verb: to stack)

stacksunstacks

Removes from a pile

unloads · scatters · disperses · empties · spreads

QUANTITY (slang: stacks of money)

stacksnothing

Not any thing

broke · penniless · empty pockets · chump change · pennies

Phrases
Family

stack, stacked, stacking, stackable, stack the deck, stacker, unstack, restack, stackers

Familiarity
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G