plant vs stack

plant

verb
  • To place in the ground. 

  • To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of. 

  • To set up; to install; to instate. 

  • To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit. 

  • To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish. 

  • To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. 

  • To furnish or supply with plants. 

  • To place or set something firmly or with conviction. 

  • To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow. 

noun
  • Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction. 

  • A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set. 

  • The combination of process and actuator. 

  • A young oyster suitable for transplanting. 

  • A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility. 

  • Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. 

  • An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. 

  • A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc. 

  • Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi. 

  • Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation). 

  • An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person. 

  • An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism. 

  • An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. 

stack

verb
  • To crash; to fall. 

  • 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 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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). 

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