Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Shelves considered as a group.
- noun Material for shelves.
- noun An incline; a slope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Materials for shelves, or shelves collectively.
- noun The act of placing or arranging on a shelf or shelves: as, the shelving of one's books; hence, the act of putting away, off, or aside.
- noun In husbandry, an open frame fitted to a wagon or cart to enable it to receive a larger load of some light material, as hay or leaves.
- noun Sloping.
- noun A shelvy place; a bank or reef.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of fitting up shelves.
- noun The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside.
- noun Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.
- adjective Sloping gradually; inclining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
shelve . - noun
Shelves collectively. - noun The side-
rails of acart orwaggon .
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Examples
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I also help in shelving books and pulling them for inter-library requests.
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Using parts from IKEA as well as shelving from the local hardware, they were able to construct a sturdy and reasonable replica of the inspiration piece.
DIY Compression Bookcases Provide Airy, Wall-Friendly Shelving | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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With new arrivals every month, the visual installations and the product shelving is constantly updated by stylists to suggest new combinations or new purposes for each creation.
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Though I wonder if the real explanation for that shelving is that the YA librarian was more aggressive about buying well-reviewed graphic novels, just to make sure they got into the collection.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Though I wonder if the real explanation for that shelving is that the YA librarian was more aggressive about buying well-reviewed graphic novels, just to make sure they got into the collection.
Blades 2008
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The new house has a lot of built in shelving and these things are very heavy where moving is paid for by the pound.
Uptick 2004
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The concept of "shelving" - setting code aside for peer review or testing before checking it back into the main line-has become a reality in Perforce Software Configuration Management System 2009.2, which went live on Dec. 31.
SD Times Latest News 2010
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Perhaps it is just this separation in shelving that might be part of the reason for the disparity in sales and why those reading YA don’t seem to be graduating to the adult section later in life, as they’ve never formed the habit of looking in the SF section, just as the adults quit browsing the YA section a long time ago.
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If you’re the type who leaves things behind and lets things accumulate unattended — basically, a household procrastinator — then no amount of storage bins or shelving is going to change your behaviour.
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Perhaps it is just this separation in shelving that might be part of the reason for the disparity in sales and why those reading YA don’t seem to be graduating to the adult section later in life, as they’ve never formed the habit of looking in the SF section, just as the adults quit browsing the YA section a long time ago.
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