Block vs Stack - What's the difference?
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A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
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A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
A residential building consisting of flats.
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, chapter=Foreword The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
(slang) The human head.
A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
* Shakespeare
A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
(computing) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
(cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
(rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship.
(chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
(sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
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(cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
(volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
(philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
A section of split logs used as fuel.
(UK) Solitary confinement.
A cellblock.
(falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
(printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
(obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
* Shakespeare
A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
(sports) To impede an opponent.
(theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
(cricket) To hit with a block.
(cricket) To play a block shot.
To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
(computing) To wait.
To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
(lb) A pile.
#A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
#*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
#*:But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack .
#A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
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#(lb) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
#*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#*:Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.
#A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
A smokestack.
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*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks .
(lb) In digital computing.
#A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
#A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack' data structure, particularly (' the stack ) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
#*1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications , p.47:
#*:When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack .
(lb) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
(senseid)(lb) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
(lb) A large amount of an object.
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(lb) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
(lb) The amount of money a player has on the table.
(lb) In architecture.
#A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
#A vertical drainpipe.
A fall or crash, a prang.
(lb) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
At Caltech, a lock, obstacle, or puzzle designed to prevent underclassmen from entering a senior's room during ditch day.
To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
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(poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
(transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
* 1975 , Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man , Outback Press,
* 1984 , , A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays ,
* 2002 , Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt ,
* 2007 , Martin Chipperfield, slut talk'', ''Night Falling , 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback,
In uk terms the difference between block and stack
is that block is solitary confinement while stack is a pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.In transitive terms the difference between block and stack
is that block is to stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape while stack is to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).block
English
(wikipedia block)Noun
(en noun)- You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.
- A block of ice.
- A block of stone.
- Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.
- I'm going for a walk around the block .
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- A block of flats.
- The place you are looking for is two long blocks''' east and one short '''block north.
- I'll knock your block off.
- Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block , I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.
- He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block .
- A block of 100 tickets.
- There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
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- What a block art thou!
Synonyms
* See also * city blockDerived terms
; cuboid * * * * ; group of buildings * * * * * ; computing * ; distance * ; cutting base * * ; prevent passage * * * * * * ; rigging * * ; human head * * * ; volleyball * * * ; miscellaneous * * * * *Synonyms
* (volleyball) stuff, roof, wallVerb
(en verb)- The pipe is blocked .
- You're blocking the road – I can't get through.
- His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
- He blocked the basketball player's shot.
- The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz.
- It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.
- I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!
- When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.
- I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.
stack
English
(wikipedia stack)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4), passage=James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
page 43,
- Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I?ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.
page 80,
- MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.
- JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.
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- Eventually he sideswiped a bus and forced other cars to collide, and as he finally stacked the car up on a bridge abutment, he passed out, perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps from his head hitting the windshield.
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- oh shit danny, i stacked' the car / ran into sally, an old school friend / you ' stacked the car? / so now i need this sally?s address / for the insurance, danny says