What's the difference between queue and stack?

Queue


Definition:

  • (n.) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
  • (n.) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
  • (v. t.) To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
  • (2) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
  • (3) He claimed that while he faced pressure to reduce airport queues, including from ministers, he could never be accused of compromising security for convenience.
  • (4) The energy secretary, Ed Davey, gave similar advice on Sky News, saying motorists did not need to queue for fuel but should fill up ahead of the Easter getaway.
  • (5) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
  • (6) Updated at 10.21am GMT 10.18am GMT Queues at cash machines It isn’t just physical security that is under threat in Ukraine but also financial stability.
  • (7) Sometimes you can be in a queue, and you're the only white person.
  • (8) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.
  • (9) The Hard Rock Cafe has long been famous for its queue, but that was so odd it was a tourist attraction, something people pointed and laughed at.
  • (10) This is even truer as our country cut the number of refugees we take from the so-called “queue”, leaving more and more people in desperate circumstances.
  • (11) Roberts said: "We are recognised as a stand out competitor within the IPO queue.
  • (12) At only 580 sq metres, it’s less than half the size of a standard store but employs nearly twice the staff – to keep shelves full throughout the day and checkout queues short.
  • (13) The uptake was so high, there were queues of women waiting.
  • (14) Insecurity has led to panic buying of fuel, with long, chaotic queues at petrol stations.
  • (15) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
  • (16) The show at Kings Place in King's Cross became known to the world via rumour – the fact that the venue is directly below the offices of the Guardian helped in this respect – shortly after 6.30pm on Friday night, and within minutes a queue started to form outside.
  • (17) At 5pm today port authorities counted 2,400 people queuing for tickets, with queues taking two hours to clear.
  • (18) The queue for copies of the report inside the White House press room was unprecedented - "and I've been here since '52," one old hand said.
  • (19) Or you can do it at the desk with your smartphone if you can remember the website address, don’t mind the data roaming charges, can remember your national insurance number and are impervious to the long queue developing behind you”.
  • (20) Further, despite the advent of publicly financed economic solutions to these access differentials-Medicaid and Medicare, in particular-organizational barriers to entry, such as the long queues to obtain service and long travel times to care in some areas, still exist.

Stack


Definition:

  • (a.) A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
  • (a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
  • (a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
  • (a.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
  • (a.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
  • (a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
  • (a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
  • (n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (2) The planar 7H-pyridocarbazole cations form stacks approximately parallel to b. Interactions between stacks occur by weak van der Waals forces.
  • (3) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
  • (4) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
  • (5) Carcinogen-modified oligodeoxynucleotides were single-stranded, but there were often considerable stacking interactions between the pyrenyl residues and the oligonucleotide bases, indicating that electrophoresed oligomers were single-stranded but in a native, versus random coil, conformation.
  • (6) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
  • (7) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
  • (8) Using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies we show in normal cells precursor forms of beta-gal in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and in the Golgi apparatus throughout the stack of cisternae.
  • (9) The AFB1 moiety is face-stacked in the major groove with its long axis approximately perpendicular to the helix axis.
  • (10) Between February and July of 1989, 22 patients underwent the use of the Stack autoperfusion catheter following acute occlusion or obstructive dissection during coronary angioplasty; in 20 cases conventional balloon was used in an attempt to correct the angiographic appearance followed by the use of Stack catheter when results were sub-optimal.
  • (11) The breaking up of the microtubular cytoskeleton is followed by vesiculation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum and partial atrophy, as well as dispersion of the stacks of Golgi cisternae.
  • (12) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (13) The notochord, which is composed of a stack of flat cells surrounded by a connective tissue sheath, elongates dramatically and begins straightening between stages 21 and 25.
  • (14) However, AGC and AC in their hydrogenated form also caused aggregation and stacking of the stratum corneum lipid liposomes.
  • (15) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
  • (16) Electron energy-loss spectroscopic element-distribution images are acquired from cytochemical reaction products in a variety of cellular objects: (1) colloidal thorium particles in extra-cellular coat material, (2) iron-containing ferritin particles in liver parenchymal cells, (3) barium-containing reaction products in endoplasmic reticulum stacks, (4) elements present in lysosomal cerium- and barium-containing precipitates connected with acid phosphatase (AcPase) or aryl sulphatase (AS) enzyme activity.
  • (17) We also observed slender tubules connecting Golgi stacks to neighbouring rough endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (18) I always get brown meat on the chicken, and when I do finally remember to stack the dishwasher, do I get any credit?
  • (19) (C13-A14-C15) segment at pH 8.9 establishes that X5 and A14 are directed into the helix, partially stack on each other, and are not stabilized by intermolecular hydrogen bonds.
  • (20) Multiple jobseekers can work in one store at the same time, cleaning or stacking shelves and competing against each other for a potential offer of paid work.