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Meaning of stacking

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

stacking

verb

Definitions

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

    Example: Please stack those chairs in the corner.

    Synonyms:build upstack up
  2. To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

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

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

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

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

    Example: The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.

    Synonyms:gerrymander

noun

Definitions

  1. The act by which something is stacked.

    Example: the number of possible stackings of eight boxes

  2. Sport stacking.

  3. A stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions.

  4. Making claims for a single incident on multiple insurance policies.