Collection vs Stack - What's the difference?
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A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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Multiple related objects associated as a group.
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(topology, analysis) A set of sets.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
* (John Milton)
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
(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.
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* 2002 , Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt ,
* 2007 , Martin Chipperfield, slut talk'', ''Night Falling , 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback,
Collection is a related term of stack.
As nouns the difference between collection and stack
is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while stack is floor, storey.collection
English
Noun
(en noun)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections , rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- Collections of moisture.
- A purulent collection .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
Derived terms
* collection agency * collection plate * minicollection * take up a collectionstack
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.
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- 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