Noun

(en noun)

A package wrapped for shipment.

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An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.

A division of land bought and sold as a unit.

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(lb) A group of birds.

An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:This youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.

*1847 , (Herman Melville), (Omoo)

*:A parcel of giddy creatures of her own age.

A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

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*(John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)

*:two parcels of the white of an egg

*(John Addington Symonds) (1840–1893)

*:The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.

Noun

(en noun)

(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.