The difference between Gerrymander and Stack
When used as nouns, gerrymander means the act of gerrymandering, whereas stack means a large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
When used as verbs, gerrymander means to divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election, whereas stack means to arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
check bellow for the other definitions of Gerrymander and Stack
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Gerrymander as a verb (transitive, pejorative):
To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
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Gerrymander as a verb (transitive, pejorative, by extension):
To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
Examples:
"The superintendent helped gerrymander the school district lines in order to keep the children of the wealthy gated community in the better school all the way across town."
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Gerrymander as a noun (pejorative):
The act of gerrymandering.
Examples:
"By this iniquitous practice, which is known as the gerrymander, the party in a minority in each State is allowed to get only about one-half or one-quarter of its proper share of representation."
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Gerrymander as a noun (pejorative):
A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
Examples:
"Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half."
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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."
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Stack as a noun:
A smokestack.
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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.
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Stack as a noun (math):
A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
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Stack as a noun (geology):
A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
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Stack as a noun (library):
Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
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Stack as a noun (figuratively):
A large amount of an object.
Examples:
"They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet."
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Stack as a noun (military):
A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
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Stack as a noun (poker):
The amount of money a player has on the table.
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Stack as a noun:
In architecture. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. A vertical drainpipe.
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Stack as a noun (Australia, slang):
A fall or crash, a prang.
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Stack as a noun (bodybuilding):
A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
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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."
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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!"
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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!"
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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."
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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."
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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."