The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

stack n. 1 pile, heap, mound, mass, accumulation, hill, mountain,
store, stock, bank, deposit, supply, stockpile, hoard, load,
bundle, bale, Colloq US and Canadian stash: This stack of paper
ought to be enough to last through the next printing. 2
haystack, cock, haycock, rick, rickle, hayrick, Brit clamp: The
stacks were covered with a tarpaulin before it started to rain.
3 collection, aggregation, accumulation, agglomeration,
amassment, mass, load, pack, amount, abundance, plenty,
profusion, volume, array, sea, throng, multitude, swarm, host,
number, quantity, pile-up: We have a huge stack of orders to
process this morning. 4 smokestack, chimney, chimney-stack,
funnel; Building soil stack: They built the stack very tall to
carry the fumes away from the town below. 5 blow one's stack.
anger, become angry, become furious or infuriated, rage, rant,
lose one's temper, Slang blow or lose one's cool, get hot under
the collar, blow one's top: The boss will blow his stack if we
miss the deadline.
--v. 6 Often, stack up. pile (up), heap, accumulate, amass,
store, stock, stockpile, hoard, collect, aggregate, agglomerate,
Colloq stash (away), squirrel away: Stack those boxes neatly in
the corner. Has he stacked up enough points to qualify? 7 stack
up. a make sense, add up, agree, jibe, be verifiable, Colloq
check out: The ledgers don't stack up with the cheque-book. The
two sets of figures simply don't stack up. b compare, measure
up, hold a candle to, be on a par (with), be as good as: He
could never stack up to Olivier.
stadium n. arena, ground, amphitheatre, hippodrome, coliseum or
colosseum, circus: The new football stadium can accommodate
60,000 spectators.
staff n. 1 stick, pole, standard, baton, rod, pikestaff, pike, stake,
cane, stave, shaft, alpenstock, shillelagh, club, truncheon,
mace, crook, crozier, sceptre, wand, caduceus: Carrying the
ceremonial staff and dressed in full regalia, the officer
impressively opened the royal court proceedings. 2 personnel,
employees, help, workforce, crew, team, organization: Before we
introduced computers, we had a staff of fifty doing nothing but
filing.
stage n. 1 position, situation, grade, level, stratum, tier, echelon,
step, station, place, point, spot, juncture, division, phase,