Stuck vs. Stack

Unable to move.

Example: ‘Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.’; ‘If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.’;

Unable to progress with a task.

Example: ‘I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.’;

No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

Example: ‘There are several ways to close a stuck program.’;

(obsolete) A thrust.

imp. & p. p. of Stick.

A thrust.

caught or fixed;

Example: ‘stuck in the mud’;

baffled;

Example: ‘this problem has me completely stuck’;

(heading) A pile.

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

Example: ‘Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.’;

(UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)

An extensive collection

A smokestack.

(heading) 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.

A standard set of software components commonly used together on a system – for example, the combination of an operating system, web server, database and programming language.

(math) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.

(geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.

(library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.

(figuratively) A large amount of an object.

Example: ‘They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.’;

(military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.

(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.

(heading) In architecture.

A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.

A vertical drainpipe.

A fall or crash, a prang.

(bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.

(transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

Example: ‘Please stack those chairs in the corner.’;

To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

Example: ‘This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!’;

To take all the money another player currently has on the table.

Example: ‘I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!’;

(transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).

Example: ‘The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.’;

To crash; to fall.

Example: ‘Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.’;

A large and to some degree orderly pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.

Example: ‘But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.’;

An orderly pile of any type of object, indefinite in quantity; - used especially of piles of wood. A stack is usually more orderly than a pile

Example: ‘Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.’;

A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.

A large quantity; as, a stack of cash.

A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.

A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.

The section of a library containing shelves which hold books less frequently requested.

To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.

To place in a vertical arrangement so that each item in a pile is resting on top of another item in the pile, except for the bottom item; as, to stack the papers neatly on the desk; to stack the bricks.

To select or arrange dishonestly so as to achieve an unfair advantage; as, to stack a deck of cards; to stack a jury with persons prejudiced against the defendant.

an orderly pile

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

Example: ‘a batch of letters’; ‘a deal of trouble’; ‘a lot of money’; ‘he made a mint on the stock market’; ‘it must have cost plenty’;

a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)

a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated

a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)

load or cover with stacks;

Example: ‘stack a truck with boxes’;

arrange in stacks;

Example: ‘heap firewood around the fireplace’; ‘stack your books up on the shelves’;

arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances;

Example: ‘stack the deck of cards’;