Shelvename

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  A hamlet in Worthen with Shelve parish, western Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3399).

shelveverb詞源 1/ʃɛlv/

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  To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.

  • to shelve a closet or a library
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  To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.

  • 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.
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  slangTo place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.

  • 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.
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  slangTo place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.

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  To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.

  • 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.
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  To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.

  • 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.
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  obsoleteTo hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang.

  • Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built ſo ſheluing, that one cannot climbe it / VVithout apparent hazard of his life.
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  To extend via a series of projecting shelves.

  • The beach shelved quickly and he kept underwater as long as he could, swimming with powerful strokes and feeling the soft coolness all over him.

shelvenoun詞源 1/ʃɛlv/

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  archaicA rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.

  • "This lake," said Bruce, "whose barriers drear / Are precipices sharp and sheer, / Yielding no track for goat or deer, / Save the black shelves we tread,[…]"
  • Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, / Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, / Shadow'd Enceladus; […]

shelveverb詞源 2/ʃɛlv/

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  dialectalTo tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.

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  Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.

  • The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things.
  • From that island's crown / Landward a slope of heather shelveth down / To meet the bar, but all the outer sides, / Sheer walls of porphyry, stem the swinging tides / The Atlantic sendeth, […]
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  obsoleteTo be in an inclined or sloping position.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• shelf