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UK
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[ US /ˈstæks/ ]
[ US /ˈstæks/ ]
NOUN
- storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored
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a large number or amount
she amassed stacks of newspapers
made lots of new friends
How To Use stacks In A Sentence
- The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed. The Stone Monkey
- The librarian sped away along the stacks of books.
- Thylakoids of grana stacks are mostly abundant in PSII complexes, while PSI complexes are predominant in stroma lamellae.
- There are good bedside reading lamps and stacks of glossy magazines. Times, Sunday Times
- It appears that the director made use of actual WW2 era (American?) destroyers and added some smoke stacks and flying bridges to them – to simulate Japanese pre-dreadnought ships. 2009 August 21 « Third Point of Singularity
- Given the prevailing south-west to north-east winds of the Sudbury summer, Penage is normally upwind, not downwind, from the smokestacks.
- But the Twins 'old dugout is now filled with hundreds of blue folding chairs in long stacks, and Mr. Lester, in his 24th year in charge of the dome's day-to-day operation, admitted he feels a bit lonelier in the old place these days. Take Me In to the Ballgame
- Fighting took place in a giant petrified forest of blackened chimney stacks, where the defenders had little cover except the charred remains of the matchboard bungalows and workers 'settlements that ringed the town. Barbarossa
- Billions of flies gorged themselves on the great stacks of refuse and excrement. Modern Science in the Bible
- He is in front of his locker, placing written scouting reports and color-coded charts on Orioles hitters into neat stacks on the floor.