shelfy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Abounding in shelves; containing crossbedded hard and soft layers that result in rocky shelves at varying angles.

   “And, o'er the dang'rous deep, secure the navy flies; / Glides by the Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, / Long infamous for ships and sailors lost”

2. sıfat Full of strata of rock.

   “The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten his root.”

3. sıfat Shelf-like; resembling or pertaining to a shelf.

   “His rosebud lay on shelfy breast,And deem it quite a fragrant jest.”

4. sıfat Relatively horizontal and flat with low friction.

   “Reduced models have long been used to describe the mechanics of ice sheets and ice shelves, while more recently a shelf-like model has been used to describe the mechanics of shelfy streams, where the basal friction is ' small ' in a precisely definable sense.”