stack
part of speech
noun (a stack, stacks); verb (stack, stacks, stacked, stacking)
meaning for a pupil
1) A stack is a neat pile of things one on top of another. tree →
2) To stack is to make such a pile. tree →
3) Stacks of something means a lot of it (informal): «stacks of homework». tree →
4) A stack is also a tall chimney. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the mystic school: In notes 04, 06 and 07 the stack is the tower of minds and worlds, each made by the one above: evolution, humans, models, new worlds. In the primary lessons: equal piles: things in each stack × stacks; in everyday life: stack the chairs at the end of the day, a stack of pancakes, stack the dishwasher; in maths: stacking cubes to build towers and count them; phrases: «a stack of», «stack up» (pile up, or compare)
examples
- A stack of minds inside minds. (note 04) tree →
- And somewhere far above the stack, perhaps another intelligence is asking exactly the same question. (note 04) tree →
- Somewhere at the top of the stack, heaven installs a deputy. (note 07) tree →
- The note then takes one more speculative step: what if evolution is not the top layer, and our universe sits inside a broader system, so unlike ours that "computer" would be the wrong word? Then there would be a stack of minds inside minds. (lesson 007) tree →
- The note suggests our physics could be its interface, our spacetime its state space, our causality its update rule; then humans would be "a stack of minds inside minds". (lesson 007) tree →
- There are 5 stacks of 10 plates. tree →
- She stacks 24 books in 3 stacks. tree →
- Each stack has 12 boxes. tree →
- How tall is a stack of 8 cups? tree →
- Please stack your chairs before you go home. tree →
- He ate a stack of pancakes with syrup. tree →
- We stacked cubes into a tower of 10. tree →
- I have stacks of homework tonight. tree →
- How does our team stack up against theirs? tree →
- Then he hastily stepped behind the wood stack, and waited for what might happen next. tree →
note
Equal groups: multiply or divide. Height of a stack = number of things × height of one (if they do not fit inside each other). Trap: cups that nest inside each other add less than their full height each.
In the corpora
- Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much stronger tower than bricks stacked straight up.
- At Mezhyrich in Ukraine, about 15,000 years ago, people built huts from mammoth bones, with jaws stacked in a neat zigzag.
- Before stacking plates, scrape the leftovers into the bin or the food caddy, a small bin just for food scraps.
- Waves cut caves into headlands, the caves join into arches, and when arches fall, stacks are left.
- Australia's Twelve Apostles are limestone stacks that are slowly collapsing as the sea erodes them.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stack» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.