Stack
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack. To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner. To take all the money another player currently has on the table. To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.). To fall or crash.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³) A smokestack. A linear data structure in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue. A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions. 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 large amount of an object. A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape. The amount of money a player has on the table. A vertical drain pipe. A fall or crash, a prang.
Example sentence: Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
Pile
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; — often with up; as, to pile up wood.To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.To add something to a great number.(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A dart; an arrow.The head of an arrow or spear.A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.A hemorrhoid.A mass of things heaped together; a heapA mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.A funeral pile; a pyre.A large building, or mass of buildings.A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.The reverse (or tails) of a coin.Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.
Example sentence: In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.