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Meaning shelf meaning

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Definitions in simple English

shelf Noun

— A shelf is a flat thing that people can put books or other things on when they are not using them.

shelf

— noun a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects — noun (= ledge) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water

Synonyms shelf synonyms

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shelf English » English

rack ledge cupboard stand table mantel stall plank frame closet bookshelf board trellis rock patch pantry level framework dresser drawer counter continental shelf cabinet bracket bookcase bed étagère wooden board whatnot what-not wardrobe trestle terrace supporting frame supporter support stand support frame support sunken reef stretcher step steadier socle snag slope sideboard shoal shelving shelves shelf board

Topics shelf topics

What do people use shelf to talk about?

Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Place of worship

Where are idols placed?

god shelf shrine

Examples shelf examples

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Simple sentences

Your comic books are on the shelf.

He put the book on the shelf.

Tom hit his head on the shelf.

I don't think I'm tall enough to reach the top shelf.

Put the book back on the shelf when you're through with it.

Put the book back on the shelf.

Please put the book on the shelf.

Put the book on the top shelf.

Put the book on the bottom shelf.

You have too many books on the shelf.

Take the jam down from the top shelf.

Don't take out the books on this shelf.

I can't reach the top shelf.

I took a book from the shelf.

There is an album on the shelf.

Movie subtitles

Uh, two of those, uh, top shelf, and, uh, make those, uh, chilled glasses.

Fine, maybe I'll just put Channy bear on a high shelf in case of a. bear-mergency.

Come and help me get it down off the shelf.

See that shelf down there by the bar?

Do you see the bottles on the shelf?

And shelf after shelf of toys and.

I feel as though I'd, I'd collected a whole shelf full of bottles.

I put all the imported bags over there on the shelf.

Right now, I'd like you to go into the stockroom and you know those big suitcases on the top shelf?

On the bottom shelf?

I want you to take all the big black suitcases from the top shelf and move them to the bottom, and the big brown ones from the bottom shelf and move them to the top shelf.

You'll find it on the shelf.

I was certain, sir, I'd placed it on the shelf.

Yes, but you'll have to sleep on the shelf.

Well, looks like I'll have to curl up on the shelf with you. Sure.

Clear this shelf.

No, thank you. I put all the imported bags over there on the shelf.

On the bottom shelf? - On the bottom.

Trousers with a crease were considered plebeian; the crease proved that the garment had lain upon a shelf, and hence was ready-made.

Mmm, well those sound good. Uh, two of those, uh, top shelf, and, uh, make those, uh, chilled glasses.

Why, you're a shelf for those burglars.

I feel as though I'd. I'd collected a whole shelf full of bottles.

Why, Mr. Hoag, most of these books are on the closed shelf.

News and current affairs

From my perspective, today's off-the-shelf computer programs come awfully close to meeting Turing's test.

The contingency plan remained on the shelf because of the lack of casualties among Israeli civilians.

Some of these rascals are indeed, to put it gently, past their shelf life.

The plans are already on the table, or at least on the shelf, waiting for the G-8 funding to arrive.

Voters will learn to compromise, replacing tailor-made niche-parties with a couple of solid off-the-shelf options.

It is possible to see in Chavez but another Latin American populist sorcerer's apprentice, one whose political shelf life will expire whenever oil prices begin their inevitable shift backward.

And donor blood must be kept in cold storage, where it has a 28-day shelf life.

How to assess countries' claims to Arctic territory hinges on the status of the Lomonosov Ridge, a vast formation that rises from the sea floor and stretches 1,800 kilometers from Greenland to the East Siberian continental shelf.

The key question is whether it is an extension of the Greenland shelf or an extension of the East Siberia shelf.

The food industry does precisely that, mixing more of both into the Western diet for palatability and shelf life, thereby intensifying insulin resistance and chronic metabolic disease.

This is good news for mining, oil, and gas companies eyeing rich reserves under the Amazon rain forest and the Pacific shelf.

It was unwise to attach the map in a note verbale responding to a joint submission by Vietnam and Malaysia to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in May 2009.

The latest attempt to halt the war in eastern Ukraine by diplomatic means had an even shorter shelf life than the first attempt last September.

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