shelf
/ʃɛlf/noun1 syllable
Shelf means: a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water.
Synonyms for shelf1
noun, as in a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
What does shelf mean?2
noun
1
a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
2
a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with shelf?8
Shelf in a sentence
- As subduction occurs below the continental shelf, earthquakes become more likely.TingBuDong
- Please look in the cabinet, the top shelf.Sprakify
- Later, she put the stone onto a shelf.Sprakify
- Clear off the shelf, and you can put your books there.CK
- When you're done with a book, place it back on the shelf.Amastan
- After he bumped into the shelf, the priceless china fell and shattered into fragments.unknown
- I stood on tiptoe, but couldn't reach the shelf.carlosalberto
- Keiko bought a new shelf, on which she put her dolls.unknown
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of shelf
as a noun
- plural
- shelves