Stack vs. Queue — What's the Difference?

An orderly pile, especially one arranged in layers

A line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.

A large, usually conical pile of straw or fodder arranged for outdoor storage.

A list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.

(Computers) A section of memory and its associated registers used for temporary storage of information in which the item most recently stored is the first to be retrieved.

A plait of hair worn at the back.

A group of three rifles supporting each other, butt downward and forming a cone.

Take one's place in a queue

A chimney or flue.

Arrange in a queue

A group of chimneys arranged together.

A line of waiting people or vehicles.

A vertical exhaust pipe, as on a ship or locomotive.

A sequence of stored data or programs awaiting processing.

An extensive arrangement of bookshelves.

A data structure from which the first item that can be retrieved is the one stored earliest.

The area of a library in which most of the books are shelved.

A long braid of hair worn hanging down the back of the neck; a pigtail.

A stackup.

To get in line

An English measure of coal or cut wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3.06 cubic meters).

To place in a sequence

(Informal) A large quantity

To braid or twist (hair) into a queue.

To arrange in a stack; pile.

A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).

To load or cover with stacks or piles

A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

(Games) To prearrange the order of (a deck of cards) so as to increase the chance of winning.

(computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.

To prearrange or fix unfairly so as to favor a particular outcome

(heraldry) An animal's tail.

To direct (aircraft) to circle at different altitudes while waiting to land.

A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.

To form a stack

(intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

(heading) A pile.

(intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

To add to a queue data structure.

A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

To fasten the hair into a queue.

(UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.

A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)

To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

An extensive collection

A line of people or vehicles waiting for something

A smokestack.

(information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted

(heading) In computing.

A braid of hair at the back of the head

(programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).

Form a queue, form a line, stand in line;

A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.

An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).

A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.

(math) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.

(geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.

(library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.

(figuratively) A large amount of an object.

(military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.

(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.

(heading) In architecture.

A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.

A vertical drainpipe.

A fall or crash, a prang.

(bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.

(aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.

(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.

(transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

To take all the money another player currently has on the table.

(transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).

To crash; to fall.

(gaming) To operate cumulatively.

To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.

To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.

(printing) To have excessive ink transfer.

A large and to some degree orderly 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.

An orderly pile of any type of object, indefinite in quantity; - used especially of piles of wood. A stack is usually more orderly than a pile

A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.

A large quantity; as, a stack of cash.

A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.

A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.

The section of a library containing shelves which hold books less frequently requested.

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.

To place in a vertical arrangement so that each item in a pile is resting on top of another item in the pile, except for the bottom item; as, to stack the papers neatly on the desk; to stack the bricks.

To select or arrange dishonestly so as to achieve an unfair advantage; as, to stack a deck of cards; to stack a jury with persons prejudiced against the defendant.

An orderly pile

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

A list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)

A large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated

A storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)

Load or cover with stacks;

Arrange in stacks;

Arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances;