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

  1. 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.

  2. 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."

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  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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