STACKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stacks mean? 

• STACKS (noun)
  The noun STACKS has 2 senses:

1. a large number or amount

2. storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored

  Familiarity information: STACKS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STACKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large number or amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dozens; gobs; heaps; lashings; loads; lots; oodles; piles; rafts; scads; scores; slews; stacks; tons; wads

Context example:

she amassed stacks of newspapers

Hypernyms ("stacks" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stacks" is a kind of...):

storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Holonyms ("stacks" is a part of...):

depository library; library (a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study)

 Context examples 

A small timber-yard still exists, however, at the back of the house, and last night, about twelve o’clock, an alarm was given that one of the stacks was on fire.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Research by scientists at Brown and Columbia Universities has demonstrated the existence of previously unknown states of matter that arise in double-layer stacks of graphene, a two-dimensional nanomaterial.

(Research reveals exotic quantum states in double-layer graphene, National Science Foundation)

The researchers’ unique platform stabilizes large stacks of DNA needed for conferring key traits, allowing researchers to insert suites of genes so precisely that no unintended DNA is added or lost during the process.

(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)