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Stack is a related term of crowd.


As nouns the difference between stack and crowd

is that stack is floor, storey while crowd is a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order or crowd can be (obsolete) a crwth, an ancient celtic plucked string instrument.

As a verb crowd is

to press forward; to advance by pushing or crowd can be (obsolete|intransitive) to play on a crowd; to fiddle.

stack

English

(wikipedia stack)

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.
  • #:
  • #(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.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • (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.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
  • (card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
  • (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, 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.
  • * 1984 , , A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays , page 80,
  • MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.
    JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.
  • * 2002 , Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt , page 19,
  • 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.
  • * 2007 , Martin Chipperfield, slut talk'', ''Night Falling , 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,
  • 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

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    crowd

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kruien.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  • The man crowded into the packed room.
  • To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
  • They crowded through the archway and into the park.
  • * Addison:
  • The whole company crowded about the fire.
  • * Macaulay:
  • Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
  • To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  • He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Crowd us and crush us.
  • To fill by pressing or thronging together.
  • * Prescott
  • The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
  • To push, to press, to shove.
  • tried to crowd her off the sidewalk
  • * 2006 , Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style (ISBN 0399532463), page 73:
  • Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
  • (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  • To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  • To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  • Derived terms
    * crowd control * crowd manipulation * crowd out * crowd psychology * crowd sail

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds , and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • *
  • *:He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
  • Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  • :
  • (lb) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
  • A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  • :
  • Synonyms
    * (group of things) aggregation, cluster, group, mass * (group of people) audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng * (the "lower orders" of people) everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashed
    Derived terms
    * crowd catch * crowd-pleaser * crowd-puller * work the crowd

    Etymology 2

    Celtic, from Welsh crwth.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little.
  • (now dialectal) A fiddle.
  • * 1819': wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, '''crowds , and rotes. — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
  • * 1684': That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with ' crowds and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
  • * Massinger
  • Fiddlers, crowd on.

    References

    (Webster 1913)

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