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Stacking

verb
Word Frequency: 1.3

Definitions

1.verbTo arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
"Please stack those chairs in the corner."
2.verbTo 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.verbTo take all the money another player currently has on the table.
"I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!"
4.verbTo deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
"The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee."
5.verbTo crash; to fall.
"Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend."
6.verbTo operate cumulatively.
"A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth."
7.verbTo place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
8.verbTo collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
9.nounThe act by which something is stacked.
"the number of possible stackings of eight boxes"
10.nounSport stacking.
11.nounA stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions.
12.nounMaking claims for a single incident on multiple insurance policies.
13.nounAn image processing technique to reduce noise or add special effects.
14.nounA technique for keeping a captive audience by grouping together programs with similar appeal.

Synonyms

build upstack upgerrymandersmashwreckpothatfulbatchsmokestackspateraftwad

Rhymes With

backinghijackingthwackingclackingwhackinglackingcrackingracking
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