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noun #28,705

Meanings

  1. 1 wooden pen for livestock
  2. 2 plank walkway on a cliff face
  3. 3 inn; warehouse
  4. 4 stack (computing)

Examples

Zhè duàn gǔdào páng yǒu jǐ chù fèiqì de zhàndào yíjì.
There are a few ruins of ancient plank walkways along this old road.
Zài jìsuànjī kēxué zhōng, zhàn shì yī zhǒng xiānjìn hòuchū de shùjù jiégòu.
In computer science, a stack is a last-in, first-out data structure.

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usage
has several meanings across different domains: in classical Chinese it refers to a cliffside plank road () or animal pen; in modern usage it commonly appears as a computing term (, call stack).

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