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STACKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stacked mean? 

STACKED (adjective)
  The adjective STACKED has 2 senses:

1. arranged in a stackplay

2. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curvesplay

  Familiarity information: STACKED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STACKED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Arranged in a stack

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Participle:

stack (arrange in stacks)


Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves

Synonyms:

bosomy; busty; buxom; curvaceous; curvy; full-bosomed; sonsie; sonsy; stacked; voluptuous; well-endowed

Context example:

a curvy young woman in a tight dress

Similar:

shapely (having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape)


 Context examples 


CubeSats, named for the roughly 4-inch-cubed dimensions of their basic building elements, are stacked with smartphone-like electronics and tiny scientific instruments.

(Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat, National Science Foundation)

DNA Intercalation involves insertion by covalent linkage of a molecule into the double-stranded deoxyribonucleotide polymer between the internal purine and pyrimidine base pairs stacked one on another perpendicular to the double helix axis.

(DNA Intercalation, NCI Thesaurus)

Chlorophyll is associated with the membrane of vesicles (thylakoids) that are stacked to form grana.

(Chloroplast, NCI Thesaurus)

I will explain how a confluence of events stacked up, one after another, to make October harder than usual for many people.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The EGF superfamily is characterized by having at least 6 cysteines residues that form disulphide bonds stacked in a ladder-like arrangement, in the order 1-3, 2-4, 5-6, and which are essential for the stability of the EGF fold.

(Epidermal Growth Factor Superfamily Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a very large chamber, lined with innumerable volumes, which had overflowed from the shelves and lay in piles in the corners, or were stacked all round at the base of the cases.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The largest moon in our solar system, a companion to Jupiter named Ganymede, might have ice and oceans stacked up in several layers like a club sandwich, according to new research that models the moon's makeup.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

Travel is also a theme of this part of your chart, your third house, and with so many planets stacked there, it would be hard to believe you would opt to stay home.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You have a slew of planets stacked up in your ninth house, which rules the media, publishing, broadcasting, international travel and relationships, university study, and legal and philosophical matters—and all these areas will shine brilliantly for you for each will support your Taurus Sun sign.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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