Stank vs Stack - What's the difference?
stank | stack |
(stink)
(AAVE, slang, derogatory) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
* 2002 , Tasha C. Miller, Assout: Incoherent Thoughts and Poems of an Unemployed Black Girl (page 11)
* 2003 , Tariq Nasheed, Play or be played (page 124)
* 2010 , R. Scott, Nine Months and a Year Later... (page 31)
(UK, dialect) Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
(UK, dialect) A dam or mound to stop water.
(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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* 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,
As nouns the difference between stank and stack
is that stank is (uk|dialect) water retained by an embankment; a pool of water while stack is floor, storey.As a verb stank
is (stink) or stank can be (obsolete|uk|dialect) to sigh.As an adjective stank
is (aave|slang|derogatory) foul-smelling, stinking, unclean or stank can be (obsolete) weak; worn out.stank
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- Fishy, pussy funky elevator / Pissy, broke ass project elevator / Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator / I'm not climbing no 17 flights
- This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.
- He wants my love; he wants the love from here and just what's between your stank -ass legs.
Etymology 2
(etyl) estanc, ((etyl) . Compare stagnant, stagnate.Noun
(en noun)- (Robert of Brunne)
Derived terms
* stank hen, stankieEtymology 3
(etyl) estanc, or (etyl) stanco. See stanch (adjective).Etymology 4
Compare Swedish word, meaning "to pant".Anagrams
* English irregular simple past forms ----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.
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.
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