shelve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The verb is a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf (“flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects”).
The noun is derived from etymology 1, verb sense 2 (“(obsolete) to hang over or project like a shelf”).
Inflected forms:
form: shelves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shelving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shelved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shelved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to shelve a closet or a library
gloss: To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
Before breakfast I employed myself in airing my old bibliomaniacal hobby, entering all the books lately acquired into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked.
gloss: To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
slang
transitive
examples: I love shelving ecstasy!
I had a funny conversation with my dad last night about shelving. It's when you shelve a pill up your bum. It was a lovely dinner conversation. […] My parents were like, in our generation we didn't snort pills, we used to drop them because it's so bad to snort. I was like, Yeah, what about shelving? They were like What? I was, Oh no, I thought you'd know.
Some people use Ecstasy using a method known as "shafting" or "shelving" which involves inserting a pill or tablet into the anus.
Amphetamines and ATS can be smoked, snorted, injected, or taken orallym, including rubbing on gums. Occasionally, they are taken anally (‘shelving’).
gloss: To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.
pos: verb
tags: Wales
figuratively
slang
transitive
gloss: To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.
[T]he Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business.
Among the schemes that have been shelved is one for the electrification of the railway between Bergen and Oslo. [Electrification was completed in 1964.]
The arrival of the new Birmingham units on the West Highland line suggests that a scheme to use 16 of the next batch of English Electric Type 4s previously allotted to the Scottish Region, Nos. D357–D384, on the West Highland and Callander-Oban lines has been shelved.
When we shelve our pain, it doesn't go away. Rather, it festers in a myriad of ways. We need to undersand that strength and grief fit together. We must be strong to handle grief, and in the end, grief brings out strengths we never knew we had.
gloss: To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
reflexive
transitive
examples: The time, too, nearly ripe for his great schemes, made it doubly necessary that he should exert himself, and prevent being shelved with a plausible excuse of tender compassion for his infirmities.
gloss: To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built ſo ſheluing, that one cannot climbe it / VVithout apparent hazard of his life.
Derived words: bookshelve
deshelve
misshelve
reshelve
shelvement
shelver
shelveset
shelving
unshelve
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 安放
roman: ānfàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 擱放 /搁放
roman: gēfàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 擱置 /搁置
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 置放
roman: zhìfàng
lang: Finnish
word: panna
lang: Finnish
word: laittaa
lang: Hebrew
word: גָּנַז
roman: ganáz
lang: Italian
word: riporre