Shelve
[ʃelv] or [ʃɛlv]
Definition
(v. t.) To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
(v. t.) To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.
(v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.
Editor: Vanessa
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Put on the shelf, put aside, give the go-by to.
v. n. Slope, incline.
Typed by Brooke
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dismiss, discard, swamp, stifle, shift
ANT:Start, prosecute, pursue, revive, agitate
Typist: Sol
Definition
v.i. to slope incline.—n. a ledge.—n. Shel′ving a shelving place: (rare) a bank.—adj. Shel′vy sloping shallow.
v.t. to furnish with shelves: to place on a shelf; to put aside.—n. Shel′ving the furnishing with shelves: the act of placing on a shelf: shelves or materials for shelves.
Edited by Jeremy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see empty shelves in dreams, indicates losses and consequent gloom. Full shelves, augurs happy contentment through the fulfillment of hope and exertions. See Store.
Typist: Vern
Examples
- That piece of insolence may think, now, that it would be a great success to get her son off upon me, and shelve me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You may kiss your hand towards that highest shelving roof. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The sandy ground, shelving downward from where we sat, was lost mysteriously in the outward layers of the fog. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ground, shelving away below me, was all sand, with a few little heathy hillocks to break the monotony of it in certain places. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The scene is the Vestry-room of St James's Church, with a number of leathery old registers on shelves, that might be bound in Lady Tippinses. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and not truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This is a large oven containing shelves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Seeds which remain on our shelves do not germinate, but those which are planted in the soil do; so it is with the yeast plants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Around the room, on shelves, are hundreds of bottles each containing a small quantity of nickel hydrate made in as many different ways, each labelled correspondingly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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