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stack·up
(stăk′ŭp′)n.
A deployment of aircraft circling an airport at designated altitudes while awaiting instructions to land.
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stack
(stæk)n.
1. a more or less orderly pile or heap.
2. a large, usu. conical, circular, or rectangular pile of hay, straw, or the like.
3. Often, stacks. a set of shelves for books ranged compactly one above the other, as in a library.
4. stacks, the part of a library in which books and other holdings are stored.
5. a number of chimneys or flues grouped together.
6. smokestack.
7. a great quantity or number.
8. a radio antenna consisting of a number of components connected in a substantially vertical series.
9. a linear list, as in a computer, arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved.
10. a conical, free-standing group of three rifles placed on their butts and hooked together.
11. a group of airplanes circling over an airport awaiting their turns to land.
12. an English measure for coal and wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3 cu. m).
13.
v.t. a. a given quantity of chips that can be bought at one time, as in poker.
b. the quantity of chips held by a player at a given point.
14. to pile, arrange, or place in a stack.
15. to cover or load with something in stacks or piles.
16. to arrange or select unfairly in order to force a desired result: to stack a jury.
17. to keep (incoming airplanes) flying in circles over an airport where conditions prevent immediate landings.
v.i. 18. to be arranged in or form a stack.
19. stack up,
Idioms: a. to control the flight patterns of airplanes waiting to land at an airport so that each circles at a designated altitude.
b. to compare; measure up (often fol. by against).
c. to add up.
stack the deck,
a. to arrange cards or a pack of cards so as to cheat.
b. to manipulate events, information, etc., esp. unethically, in order to achieve a desired result.
[1250–1300; (n.) Middle English stak < Old Norse stakkr haystack]
stack′er, n.
stack′less, adj.
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