shelve

shelve (sh

lv)

v. shelved, shelv·ing, shelves

v.tr.

1. To place or arrange on a shelf.

2. To put away as though on a shelf; put aside: "As usual, Dixon shelved this question" (Kingsley Amis). See Synonyms at defer¹.

3. To cause to retire from service; dismiss.

4. To furnish or outfit with shelves.

v.intr.

To slope gradually; incline.

[From shelf (on the model of such pairs as calf, calve).]

shelver n.

shelve¹

vb (tr)

1. to place on a shelf

2. to provide with shelves

3. to put aside or postpone from consideration

4. to dismiss or cause to retire

[from shelves, plural of shelf]

shelver n

shelve²

(intr) to slope away gradually; incline

[origin uncertain]

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Verb	1.	shelve - hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" postpone, prorogue, put off, defer, set back, table, put over, remit, hold over delay - act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered" call - stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather; "call a football game" hold - stop dealing with; "hold all calls to the President's office while he is in a meeting" suspend - render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was suspended" probate - put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence reprieve, respite - postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
	2.	shelve - place on a shelf; "shelve books" lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

shelve

verb

1. postpone, put off, defer, table (U.S.), dismiss, freeze, suspend, put aside, hold over, mothball, pigeonhole, lay aside, put on ice, put on the back burner (informal), hold in abeyance, take a rain check on (U.S. & Canad. informal) Sadly, the project has now been shelved.

2. fall, drop, plunge, descend, plummet The shoreline shelves away steeply.

Translations

shelve [ʃelv]

A. VT (= postpone) → dar carpetazo a

B. VI (= slope away) → formar declive

shelve [ˈʃɛlv]

vt [+ plan, project] → mettre en suspens, mettre en sommeil

vi (= slope downwards) → descendre

shelve

vi (= slope) → abfallen

room → mit Regalen versehen, Regale einbauen in (+acc)

problem → aufschieben; plan, project → ad acta legen

shelve [ʃɛlv] vt (fig) (postpone) → accantonare

shelve, shelves shelf

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This attic was Maggie's favorite retreat on a wet day, when the weather was not too cold; here she fretted out all her ill humors, and talked aloud to the worm-eaten floors and the worm-eaten shelves, and the dark rafters festooned with cobwebs; and here she kept a Fetish which she punished for all her misfortunes.

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

All that was most sugared and musical and generally delusive in the old library of her fathers had been brought out to this little woodland library, and to that nucleus of old leather-bound poets and romancers, long since dead, yet as alive and singing on their shelves as any bird on the sunny boughs outside, my young lady's private purse had added all that was most sugared and musical and generally delusive in the vellum bound Japanese-paper literature of our own luxurious day.

The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context

She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context

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