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Shelf
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- 1 A place name:; A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1228).
- 2 A place name:; A hamlet in Coychurch Lower community, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9380).
- 1 A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.
"We keep the old newspapers on the bottom shelf of the cupboard, and our photos on the top shelf."
- 2 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."
- 3 a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects wordnet
- 4 The capacity of such an object
"a shelf of videos"
- 5 a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water wordnet
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- 6 A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
- 7 The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
"This is where the Visual Studio Shelving function can help. A shelf is a place on the server in source control that is separate from the main code line so it will not affect other developers."
- 1 Alternative form of shelve. alt-of, alternative
- 2 Alternative form of shelve. alt-of, alternative
Etymology
From Middle English schelfe, probably from Old English sċylfe, sċilfe (“shelf, ledge, deck of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, from Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), distantly related to sculpt, carve and shell. Cognate with Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), Old Norse skjalf (“bench”).
From Middle English schelfe, probably from Old English sċylfe, sċilfe (“shelf, ledge, deck of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, from Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), distantly related to sculpt, carve and shell. Cognate with Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), Old Norse skjalf (“bench”).
Of obscure origin; evidently identical to Middle English shelp (“sandbar in a river”), but the sound shift is unexpected. Shelp might be from Old English scylp (“crag”) or Middle Dutch schelp-.
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