stack

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A neat pile of things placed one on top of another.

   There was a stack of books on the desk.

2. 2
   noun

   A large amount of something.

   He earned a stack of money from the deal.

3. 3
   verb

   To arrange things in a pile, one on top of another.

   Please stack the chairs against the wall.

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”). The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

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