Definitions for shelving

shelving shelv·ing

Spelling: [shel-ving]
IPA: /ˈʃɛl vɪŋ/

Shelving is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in shelving (eghilnsv).

Definitions for shelving

noun

  1. material for shelves.
  2. shelves collectively.

verb (used with object)

  1. to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
  2. to put off or aside from consideration:
  3. to remove from active use or service; dismiss.
  4. to furnish with shelves.

verb (used without object)

  1. to slope gradually.

Origin of shelving

First recorded in 1625-35; shelve1 + -ing1

Examples for shelving

Here he emptied his pockets on the table and built a shelving house of gold.

The narrow, shelving beach, rivalled the whiteness of a fresh snow-drift.

If there are cliffs or shelving rocks near by, go and see them.

This shelving of the real facts, of course, is unconscious on the part of women.

Then, when we could see sufficiently, we swam to a shelving rock, and landed in safety.

Gradually the water shoaled as they made their way up the shelving sand.

But pray recollect that they grow where the rocks are both slippery and shelving.

As they lay, the shelving rock was less than two feet above their heads.

Beyond February 14, the collapse is shelving more complex plans.

Meanwhile, the search, expected to last 10 hours per day, began with the removal of some shelving.

Word Value for shelving
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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