The difference between Build up and Stack

When used as verbs, build up means to erect, whereas stack means to arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

Stack is also noun with the meaning: a large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

check bellow for the other definitions of Build up and Stack

  1. Build up as a verb:

    To erect; to construct.

  2. Build up as a verb:

    To close up by building.

    Examples:

    "to build up a door"

  3. Build up as a verb (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic):

    To accumulate, to pile up, to increase in stages.

    Examples:

    "Ever since the secretary left, the letters in my inbox have started to build up."

  4. Build up as a verb (transitive, idiomatic):

    To strengthen.

    Examples:

    "They had to build up their fortress to protect against attack."

  5. Build up as a verb (card games):

    In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣)

  1. Build up as a noun:

  1. Stack as a noun:

    A pile. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³) An extensive collection

    Examples:

    "Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner."

  2. Stack as a noun:

    A smokestack.

  3. Stack as a noun:

    In digital computing. A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue. A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions. A standard set of software components commonly used together on a system – for example, the combination of an operating system, web server, database and programming language.

  4. Stack as a noun (math):

    A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.

  5. Stack as a noun (geology):

    A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.

  6. Stack as a noun (library):

    Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.

  7. Stack as a noun (figuratively):

    A large amount of an object.

    Examples:

    "They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet."

  8. Stack as a noun (military):

    A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.

  9. Stack as a noun (poker):

    The amount of money a player has on the table.

  10. Stack as a noun:

    In architecture. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. A vertical drainpipe.

  11. Stack as a noun (Australia, slang):

    A fall or crash, a prang.

  12. Stack as a noun (bodybuilding):

    A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.

  1. Stack as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "Please stack those chairs in the corner."

  2. Stack as a verb (transitive, card games):

    To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

    Examples:

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

  3. Stack as a verb (transitive, poker):

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

    Examples:

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

  4. Stack as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee."

  5. Stack as a verb (transitive, US, Australia, slang):

    To crash; to fall.

    Examples:

    "Jim couldn′t make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend."

  6. Stack as a verb (gaming):

    To operate cumulatively.

    Examples:

    "A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth."

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