Shelve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “to shelve a closet or a library”

2. fiil To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.

   “The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.”

3. fiil To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.

   “I love shelving ecstasy!”

4. fiil To have sex with (someone).
5. fiil To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.).

   “They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.”

6. fiil To remove (someone) from active service.

   “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.”

7. fiil To 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.”

8. isim A 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,[…]"”

9. fiil To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
10. fiil 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.”

11. fiil To be in an inclined or sloping position.
12. isim Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”).

    “But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.”

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