Definitions for shelf

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shelf shelf

Spelling: [shelf]

IPA: /ʃɛlf/

Shelf is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in shelf (efhls).

Definitions for shelf

noun

1. a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
2. the contents of this:
3. a surface or projection resembling this; ledge.
4. Physical Geography. a sandbank or submerged extent of rock in the sea or river. the bedrock underlying an alluvial deposit or the like. continental shelf.
5. Archery. the upper part of the bow hand, on which the arrow rests.

Idioms

1. off the shelf, readily available from merchandise in stock:
2. on the shelf, Informal. put aside temporarily; postponed. inactive; useless. without prospects of marriage, as after having broken an engagement.

Origin of shelf

1350-1400; Middle English; Old English scylfe; akin to Low German schelf shelf, Old Norse -skjalf bench

Examples for shelf

There was a shelf of books and another of blue and white cups and saucers and dishes.

A military helmet that the artist himself wore on the Maidan occupied an important spot on the shelf.

She took down the parcel from the shelf and undid the string.

But how much easier, he says with disdain, for those who just buy whiskey off the shelf and market it.

It was the first store where I saw my first book displayed on the shelf.

I gave one more glance at the volume, and replaced it on the shelf.

But others argue that its shelf life is longer than we might think.

And much of it, unlike Pappy, is right there on the shelf, humbly, quietly waiting to be tried.

Three books from the end she noticed a difference in the wall behind the shelf.

I did not want to take it, so I put it on the shelf for Our Lady.