Noun: shelf
| Singular | shelf |
| Plural | shelves; shelfs |
Sample Sentences
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We keep the old newspapers on the bottom shelf of the cupboard, and our photos on the top shelf.
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Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare. [2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012:]
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a shelf of videos
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In 1981, China's Ministry of Geology surveyed the Taiwan Banks area and reported the following features: The Southern Basin (Taiwan Qian Tan) is situated approximately 200 km (124 mi) south-east of Swatao City and about 10 km (6.2 mi) south of the Taiwan Banks on the transition between shelf and slope in water depths of 50 to 200 m (164 to 656 ft). [1985, Mark J. Valencia, “Issues: Hydrocarbon Potential and Jurisdictional Disputes”, in South-East Asian Seas: Oil Under Troubled Waters: Hydrocarbon Potential, Jurisdictional Issues, and International Relations, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103:]
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This is where the Visual Studio Shelving function can help. A shelf is a place on the server in source control that is separate from the main code line so it will not affect other developers. [2012, Bradley Irby, Reengineering .NET:]
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A shelveset allows you to store a changeset on the server without adding it to the current codebase and sharing it with team members directly. Each team member has his own “shelf,” where he can store as many shelvesets as he wants. [2016, Wouter de Kort, DevOps on the Microsoft Stack, page 114:]
Nouns inflected like shelf
Mobius scarf,
Moebius scarf,
head-scarf,
Palestinian scarf,
head scarf,
presheaf,
moebius scarf,
government wharf,
doorleaf,
bloodleaf,
capsheaf,
mobius scarf,
theif,
theef,
wharf,
scarf,
shelf,
sheaf,
headscarf,
cloven hoof, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English schelfe, probably from Old English sċylfe, sċilfe (“shelf, ledge, deck of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, from Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), distantly related to sculpt, carve and shell. Cognate with Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), Old Norse skjalf (“bench”). See: Middle English Nouns '
schelfe', Old English Nouns '
sċielfe', Dutch Nouns '
schelf'.
Verbs referencing "shelf"
Russian Nouns
шельф, Ukrainian Nouns
шельф, Dutch Nouns
schelf, Irish Nouns
seilf, Finnish Nouns
šelfi, Ancient Greek Nouns
σκόλοψ.