Meaning of stacked in English:

stacked

Pronunciation /stakt/

adjective

1(of a number of things) put or arranged in a stack or stacks.
‘the stacked chairs’
- ‘To the right of the beds, there was a work table, and there were four neatly stacked chairs in the corner next to the table.’
- ‘That's all that my room is at the moment; a collection of stacked stuff.’
- ‘Terraced soil or stacked stones provide a place for the water to spill over.’
- ‘There was the man who could balance on the most precariously stacked barrels.’
- ‘Opening the lid, however, reveals no hollow volume inside, but only the top layer of stacked plywood.’
- ‘My daughter also had a brief go in the adventure playground, which consisted of tunnels and passageways created out of stacked hay inside a barn.’
- ‘One little girl struggles to separate two stacked chairs as she discusses her aspirations.’
- ‘For whom were the three stacked plates and why does Rousseau eat alone?’
- ‘I filled in the rest of that side with stacked casual shirts.’
- ‘The first thing one remarks of Paul Manes's paintings of sprawlingly rendered stacked bowls is the complex sensuousness of their surfaces.’
- ‘Still holding her picture tightly in his hand, he ran his other along the neatly stacked books on the shelf.’
- ‘We walked past one of those games where you throw a ball at the stacked bottles.’
- ‘In any event, they have quickly transformed the new pathway into a mess of stacked chairs and tables.’
- ‘His riding helmet and gloves are stacked neatly in the chair next to him.’
- ‘The shelves were full of neatly stacked jars and bottles.’
- ‘The green contours are also lay-of-the-land and the bunkers are hand-dug, some edged by tall layers of stacked sod, others by shaggy tufts of native grass.’
- ‘Jay could feel himself trembling as he climbed his way up the stacked boxes in the corner of the room.’
- ‘Resting on the counter was the coffee machine and behind it were stacked cups and fridges.’
- ‘Shelving units filled every available space and most of them were filled with carefully stacked items.’
- ‘Soldiers scurry about frantically, climbing atop stacked chairs to see over the transport.’
1. 1.1(of a place or surface) filled or covered with goods.
  ‘the stacked shelves’
  ‘And, worth noting, the larger retail outlets offer seas of stacked aisles in which to get confused.’
  ‘He is a natural bon-viveur and legendary dinner party host, although rumours he keeps a fully stacked champagne-only fridge are, sadly, untrue.’
  full, filled, laden, packed, burdened, stuffed, crammed, brimming, freighted, stacked
2. 1.2Having sections that are arranged vertically.
  ‘full-sized washer/dryers are replacing stacked units’
  ‘With increasing extension, or shear, vertically stacked books will progressively rotate, attaining ever-decreasing angles to the horizontal.’
  ‘It comes with vertically stacked dual headlamps and a narrower passenger seat than other BMWcruisers.’
  ‘Suzuki has gone for vertically stacked headlights and no-maintenance LED-type rear tail lights.’
  ‘The three stacked, sequence-stratigraphic units were produced by episodes of faulting, subsidence, and infilling.’
  ‘The northern part of the Iberian Variscan belt forms the central zone of the Ibero-Armorican arc, an arched belt of several stacked thrust units.’
  ‘An unusual stacked vanity unit makes the most of the limited space.’
  ‘Her watercolors are ostensibly abstract, but their stacked forms within vertical formats imply a landscape.’
  ‘These are vertical planes of horizontally stacked planks of wood backed by a pole or beam planted in the ground.’
  ‘The traps consisted of three stacked vertical wooden plates spaced approx .15 cm from one another, and set near ground level.’
  ‘Fira is on a rugged, rocky island and the town marches up the steep coastline in stacked terraces and zigzag avenues.’
  ‘Off the adjoining Harbour Court, there would be eight stacked garage parking spaces.’
  ‘The Prinsendam was constructed in the formative years of atrium development, and features a unique stacked atrium design.’
  ‘In addition, when introducing a kink, both stacked arms are symmetrically deviated from the helical axis by the same amount.’
  ‘Inventive but easy, these stacked layers of tulips will grab attention in any room.’
  ‘In principle, the greater the number of stacked layers, the better the homogenization will be.’
  ‘For the model above the hair was waved with a stacked perm at the back of the neck to get volume up to the occipital bone, and layered and textured through the front.’
  ‘Or you can build densely stacked courtyard housing, arranged in the Georgian manner in crescents or squares.’
  ‘Consider Katie Kannler's struggle to get a new stacked washer/dryer delivered to her Arlington townhouse in February.’
  ‘Amkor claims the cost of a three-dice stacked package can be up to 35% less than the cost of three separate packages because they share one substrate.’
  ‘Carla Gentry of Styles Hair Salon in New York gave this look a twist with a layered bang and stacked layers at the base.’
3. 1.3(of a heel) made from thin layers of material glued one on top of the other.
  ‘the new boots you buy will be leather with stacked heels’
  ‘Basically, you need to go out and invest in a new pair of slouch boots with a stacked heel and/or flat pumps.’
  ‘Women, brace yourselves for stacked heels, and men, the Chelsea boot looks best with a pair of low-rise dirty denim jeans.’
2(of a pack of cards) shuffled or arranged dishonestly so as to gain an unfair advantage.
‘you were playing against a stacked deck’
- ‘a stacked deck of a political system’
- ‘Boxing is full of stacked decks and unfair decisions but through it all, sometimes we just get a great fight.’
- ‘I never expected this respected professor of economics to deal from a stacked deck.’
- ‘Mephistopheles is dealing with a stacked deck and he knows it.’
- ‘Also, it would be interesting to see the results of a stacked deck reading compared to a ‘natural’ reading for the same person.’
3 vulgar slang (of a woman) having large breasts.
- ‘She is stacked and feisty, but not actually that smart a player.’
- ‘The band of four head off on their little adventure and I suddenly notice that Stephanie is stacked.’
- ‘She's stacked, limber and looking for a father figure.’
- ‘She's tall, leggy, stacked, triple X sexy, and she's wearing a black bikini that displays her awesome figure to full advantage.’
- ‘Stand so you feel stacked, your hips over your heels and your weight on the middle of each foot.’
large-breasted, big-breasted, full-breasted, heavy-breasted, bosomy, large-bosomed, big-bosomed, full-bosomed
4 informal (of a person) having a highly developed muscular physique.
- ‘nothing beats seeing that you're curling a lot more than the stacked guy next to you at the gym’
5Computing
(of a task) placed in a queue for subsequent processing.
‘an operating system that allows for stacked jobs’
- ‘This invention relates in general to printing systems, and more particularly to a system and method for managing print object headers associated with active print objects via a controllable stacked object queue arrangement.’
- ‘The print object headers are made available in a plurality of register sets or queues, which are serially arranged in a stacked queue configuration.’
- ‘As print object headers enter the stacked object queue via a first queue, they are shifted through the remaining queues as they become available.’
1. 5.1(of a stream of data) stored in such a way that the most recently stored item is the first to be retrieved.
  ‘MIDI interface featuring stacked MIDI note numbers’
  ‘A special case of data retrieval from multiple tables is the use of stacked cursors to fetch data from logical copies of the same table, in a manner that provides a solution to the so called "Parts explosion" problem.’
  ‘Stacked cursors are typically used in application programs which traverse a tree structure stored in the database.’