stack.html - See: BLOW A FUSE or BLOW ONE'S STACK.

stack.html - {v. phr.} 1. To arrange cards secretly and dishonestly for the purpose of cheating. * /The gambler had stacked the cards against Bill./ 2. To arrange things unfairly for or against a person; have things so that a person has an unfair advantage or disadvantage; make sure in an unfair way that things will happen. - Usually used in the passive with "in one's favor" or "against one." * /A tall basketball player has the cards stacked in his favor./ * /The cards are stacked against a poor boy who wants to go to college./

stack.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a pile or heap, esp. in orderly arrangement.
2 a circular or rectangular pile of hay, straw, etc., or of grain in sheaf, often with a sloping thatched top, a rick.
3 colloq. a large quantity (a stack of work; has stacks of money).
4 a = chimney-stack. b = SMOKESTACK. c a tall factory chimney.
5 a stacked group of aircraft.
6 (also stack-room) a part of a library where books are compactly stored, esp. one to which the public does not have direct access.
7 Brit. a high detached rock esp. off the coast of Scotland and the Orkneys.
8 a pyramidal group of rifles, a pile.
9 Computing a set of storage locations which store data in such a way that the most recently stored item is the first to be retrieved.
10 Brit. a measure for a pile of wood of 108 cu. ft. (30.1 cubic metres).

--v.

tr.
1 pile in a stack or stacks.
2 a arrange (cards) secretly for cheating. b manipulate (circumstances etc.) to one's advantage.
3 cause (aircraft) to fly round the same point at different levels while waiting to land at an airport.

stack arms hist. = pile arms. stack up US colloq. present oneself, measure up. stack-yard an enclosure for stacks of hay, straw, etc.

stackable adj. stacker n. [ME f. ON stakkr haystack f. Gmc]

stack.html - See: BLOW A FUSE or BLOW ONE'S STACK.

stack.html - {v. phr.} 1. To arrange cards secretly and dishonestly for the purpose of cheating. * /The gambler had stacked the cards against Bill./ 2. To arrange things unfairly for or against a person; have things so that a person has an unfair advantage or disadvantage; make sure in an unfair way that things will happen. - Usually used in the passive with "in one's favor" or "against one." * /A tall basketball player has the cards stacked in his favor./ * /The cards are stacked against a poor boy who wants to go to college./

stack.html - adv.,
adj., & n. esp. Mus. --adv.

& adj. with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others (cf. LEGATO, TENUTO).

--n.

(pl. -os)
1 a staccato passage in music etc.
2 staccato delivery or presentation.

staccato mark a dot or stroke above or below a note, indicating that it is to be played staccato. [It., past part. of staccare = distaccare DETACH]