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stacking

The correct spelling is stacking.

How to pronounce stacking

verb

Say it like: Sta-kin-g

The correct spelling is stacking. To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack. For example: "Please stack those chairs in the corner."

Usage Examples

Please stack those chairs in the corner.

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

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

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  2. 2.To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
  3. 3.To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  4. 4.To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  5. 5.To crash; to fall.

noun

  1. 1.The act by which something is stacked.
  2. 2.Sport stacking.
  3. 3.A stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions.
  4. 4.Making claims for a single incident on multiple insurance policies.
  5. 5.An image processing technique to reduce noise or add special effects.

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