Word Finder - stacked

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To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

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Please stack those chairs in the corner.

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• build up
• stack up

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To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

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This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!

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To take all the money another player currently has on the table.

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I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!

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To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).

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The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.

synonyms

• gerrymander

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To crash; to fall.

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Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.

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• smash
• wreck

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To operate cumulatively.

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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.

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To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.

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To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.

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Arranged in a stack

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The plates were stacked waiting to be cleaned.

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Having large breasts

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That girl at the party was really stacked.

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Unfairly constructed, as a stacked deck of cards.

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That game is stacked. Don't even try it.

She opened it and stacked the keys in it.

Cynthia stacked the supper dishes.

The regiment passed through the village and stacked its arms in front of the last huts.

She stacked the bags on the couch.

He knocked before opening her door and saw her wardrobe empty with clothes piled and stacked on the bed.

The work bench, on which our tools were stacked, was beneath the concrete half of our enclosure.

The wood was split and stacked beside the house, waiting for winter.

In the center was a table stacked with more of the records.

Fred drained his glass and stacked it in the dishwasher.

Tables and shelves were stacked with dozens of potted plants of various sizes, each in separate boxes.

The wheat is not stacked as in the Eastern states and in England, but stands upright in shocks in the field.

The counter was stacked with books, and there was a single chair behind the stand for him to sit and sign.

The expense reports and the personnel file from World Wide were neatly stacked on the table, but not in the same posi­tion Dean had left them the night before and his tape recorder hadn't been re-wound.

This one was the size of a small apartment, stacked ceiling to floor with bodies.

Only Donnie's clothes were neatly stacked.

A large barrel was tucked in one corner and several small bladders stacked near the front.

She left the tack room door open while she stacked the newest delivery of hay.

The bottles are stacked in iron trucks, which, when full, are moved slowly away from a constant source of heat.

The coarser kinds are sorted, cured (dried in the sun and wind) and stacked ready for market.

Another form is the Hoffmann or ring kiln, made up of a number of compartments arranged in a ring and connected with a central chimney; in these compartments rough brick-shaped masses of the raw materials are stacked, and between these bricks fuel is sprinkled.

There the flax is dried in the field, and housed or stacked during the winter succeeding its growth, and in the spring of the following year it is retted in crates sunk in the sluggish waters of the river Lys.

She did not understand why he spoke with such admiration and delight of the farming of the thrifty and well- to-do peasant Matthew Ermishin, who with his family had carted corn all night; or of the fact that his (Nicholas') sheaves were already stacked before anyone else had his harvest in.

Wood was stacked beside it, and she turned the book sitting on the coffee table into newspaper to burn.

He pushed open the fourth door, walking into a large room stacked from floor to ceiling with ancient tablets, manuscripts, and books.

The leathery coils of its shiny body lay in a heap, stacked at least three tiers high.

In the meantime the lead in the moulds, which has solidified, is removed with the crane and stacked to one side, until its turn comes to be raised and charged into one of the pans.

In any case it must not be stacked while damp, and if cut by machine is therefore sometimes tied in sheaves and set up in stooks as in the case of wheat.

Sound friable loam cut one sod deep from the surface of a pasture, and stacked up for twelve months in a heap or ridge, is invaluable to the gardener.

After the log is converted into scantlings, or "lumber," as it is termed in America, it is stacked in the timber yard under covered sheds with open sides to enable it to "season."

The water enters the pores of the wood (which should be placed with the butt end pointing up stream) and dissolves and forces out the sap. After about two weeks in this position it is taken out and stacked in open sheds to be dried in the natural way, or treated by warm air in special chambers.

As a general rule the removal of the " bolls " or capsules by the process of rippling immediately follows the pulling, the operation being performed in the field; but under some systems of cultivation, as, for example, the Courtrai method, alluded to below, the crop is made up into sheaves, dried and stacked, and is only boiled and retted in the early part of the next ensuing season.

The Mix & Match Activity garden has colorful rings and garden critters that can be sorted and stacked onto three soft flower stems.

Against stacked odds, however, one aspect of New Orleans life is being kept alive.

Dark shoes with white socks should be worn - no trainers, open toed sandals or shoes with stacked heels please.

Molds are stacked on racks in a room and are left for a time specific to the variety of cheese.

The unit comes with a free tailored rain cover so it's always best to use it when it's stacked up [outside].

From building a tall base to allow for stacked drawers to keeping the lines simple and spare with no added storage, platform beds have lots to offer woodworking enthusiasts.

Until about a decade ago, bunk beds were only available as single beds stacked on top of each other.

With a full bed on the bottom and stairs that lead to a top twin bed, this configuration not only includes drawers in the steps, but there is room underneath for a custom made desk with stacked drawers on either side.

By taking this approach, cells are stacked so that as light passes through the cells, the lower solar cells convert the band of light that the higher cells can't - increasing the efficiency of the entire photovoltaic cell tremendously.

Lounging and sleeping space for friends doesn't have to be a big investment -- it can be stacked pillows on the floor, a futon or an inflatable bed.

Beautiful hardback books can be found used and double as a design element when they are carefully stacked in a bookshelf.

In a recent catalog, some eye-catching items included a file cabinet designed to mimic the look of stacked, leather suitcases.

You can use a couple of pillows stacked on top of each other to sit around a coffee table for an informal meal or to play a board game.

The plates then should be stacked on top of the dinner plate in the order they will be used.

Subway tiles can be offset in what is called a running bond pattern for a traditional look, or stacked horizontally or vertically on top of one another for a modern look.

The cards don't need to be shuffled and the chips don't need to be counted or stacked.

So, how can you become a photographer when the odds are stacked against you?

However, subjects can be stacked creatively depending on their height.

Wilton makes great cake pans you can use to get a standard shape that you can then decorate to suit your needs - like a series of cake rounds stacked and then carved into a head shape.