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stack | fold |

As a noun stack

is floor, storey.

As a proper noun fold is

earth.

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

    Anagrams

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    fold

    English

    (wikipedia fold)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) falda (Danish folde).

    Verb

  • To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
  • To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
  • If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
  • To become folded; to form folds.
  • Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
  • (informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
  • The chair folded under his enormous weight.
  • To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Chapter 21
  • He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.
  • To give way on a point or in an argument.
  • (poker) To withdraw from betting.
  • With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded .
  • (cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
  • Fold the egg whites into the batter.
  • (business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
  • The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
  • To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
  • He folded his arms in defiance.
  • To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.
    Synonyms
    * bend, crease * (fall over) fall over * (give way on a point or in an argument) concede, give in, give way, yield
    Antonyms
    * unfold
    Derived terms
    * foldable * foldaway * foldboat * folder * folding money * foldover * fold-down

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of folding.
  • A bend or crease.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • mummies shrouded in a number of folds of linen
  • * J. D. Dana
  • Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.
  • Any correct move in origami.
  • A group of sheep or goats.
  • A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
  • (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold .
  • (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold .
  • (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
  • (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
  • That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold .
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
  • Having suffered the loss of Rooney just as he had returned to the fold , Moyes' mood will not have improved as Liverpool took the lead in the third minute.
    Synonyms
    * (act of folding) bending, creasing. * (bend or crease) bend, crease. * * (correct move in origami)
    Derived terms
    * above the fold * below the fold

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fold, fald, from (etyl) fald, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  • * Milton
  • Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold , didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}
  • (figuratively) Home, family.
  • (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
  • John , X, 16 : "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."
  • (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
  • (Creech)
    Synonyms
    * enclosure * pen * penfold, pinfold

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To confine sheep in a fold.
  • The star that bids the shepherd fold — Milton.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
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