bank vs stack

bank

noun
  • The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn. 

  • An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. 

  • The ground at the top of a shaft. 

  • A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap. 

  • Money; profit. 

  • An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse. 

  • The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc 

  • A row or panel of items stored or grouped together. 

  • A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard. 

  • An incline, a hill. 

  • A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment. 

  • The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses. 

  • A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. 

  • A branch office of such an institution. 

  • A device used to store coins or currency. 

  • An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank). 

  • A mass noun for a quantity of clouds. 

  • The face of the coal at which miners are working. 

  • An underwriter or controller of a card game. 

  • A set of multiple adjacent drop targets. 

  • A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. 

  • A bench or seat for judges in court. 

  • A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. 

  • In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. 

  • A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods. 

  • A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. 

verb
  • To put into a bank. 

  • To arrange or order in a row. 

  • To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. 

  • To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive. 

  • To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. 

  • To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. 

  • To cause (an aircraft) to bank. 

  • To roll or incline laterally in order to turn. 

  • To form into a bank or heap, to bank up. 

  • To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat. 

stack

noun
  • A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land. 

  • A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system. 

  • A fall or crash, a prang. 

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

  • A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits. 

  • A large amount of an object. 

  • An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture). 

  • A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea. 

  • A vertical drainpipe. 

  • Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books. 

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

  • An extensive collection 

  • The amount of money a player has on the table. 

  • The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag. 

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

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

  • A smokestack. 

  • A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves. 

  • A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. 

  • A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions. 

  • A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape. 

  • A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed). 

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

  • To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern. 

  • To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars. 

  • To operate cumulatively. 

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

  • To crash; to fall. 

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

  • To have excessive ink transfer. 

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

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