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Stacking

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

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📖 Definitions of "Stacking"

verb

1
To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
"Please stack those chairs in the corner."
2
To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
"This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!"
3
To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
"I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!"
4
To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
"The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee."

noun

1
The act by which something is stacked.
"the number of possible stackings of eight boxes"
2
Sport stacking.
3
A stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions.
4
Making claims for a single incident on multiple insurance policies.

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potnoun	A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
hatfulnoun	(colloquial) A large amount or number.
batchnoun	The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
smokestacknoun	A conduit or group of conduits atop a structure allowing smoke to flow out, as on a steam locomotive, ship, factory, or power plant using fossil fuels.
spatenoun	(countable, figurative) A sudden increase or rush of something; a flood, an outburst, an outpouring.
raftnoun	A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
wadnoun	An amorphous, compact mass.
slewnoun	A large amount.
pilenoun	A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
heapnoun	A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
pecknoun	(ambitransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
massnoun	(physical) Matter, material.
lotnoun	A large quantity or number; a great deal.
staggerverb	An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
flocknoun	A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
great dealnoun	(idiomatic, usually singular) Large number, amount, or extent; profusion.
micklenoun	(archaic, now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, especially Northumbria) (Very) great or large.
mucklenoun	(chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
plentynoun	A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude.
dealnoun	(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).