pot vs stack

pot

noun
  • Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave. 

  • A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food. 

  • A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot. 

  • A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL). 

  • An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet. 

  • Marijuana. 

  • A favorite: a heavily-backed horse. 

  • A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot. 

  • A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot. 

  • A perforated cask for draining sugar. 

  • A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot. 

  • A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground. 

  • The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement. 

  • A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies. 

  • A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot. 

  • A plaster cast. 

  • Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot. 

  • A crucible: a melting pot. 

  • Ruin or deterioration. 

  • A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc. 

verb
  • To put (something) into a pot. 

  • To secure; gain; win; bag. 

  • To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer. 

  • To send someone to gaol, expeditiously. 

  • To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask. 

  • To preserve by bottling or canning. 

  • To cause a ball to fall into a pocket. 

  • To be capable of being potted. 

  • To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb. 

  • To shoot with a firearm. 

  • To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot. 

  • To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching. 

  • To score (a drop goal). 

stack

noun
  • A vertical drainpipe. 

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

  • A fall or crash, a prang. 

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

  • 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. 

  • 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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