STACK UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stack up mean? 

• STACK UP (verb)
  The verb STACK UP has 1 sense:

1. arrange into piles or stacks

  Familiarity information: STACK UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STACK UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange into piles or stacks

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

heap up; pile up; stack up

Context example:

She piled up her books in my living room

Hypernyms (to "stack up" is one way to...):

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

These clouds provide the team with insight into how Kepler-51 b and 51 d stack up against other low-mass, gas-rich planets outside of our solar system.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)