Dictionary Definition
shelf
Noun
1 a support that consists of a horizontal surface
for holding objects
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Probably from scylfe (deck of a ship); distantly related to sculpt, "carve" and shell.Noun
Synonyms
- (capacity): shelfful
Derived terms
Translations
structure
- Albanian: raft
- Arabic: (raff)
- Bosnian: polica
- Chinese: 架子 (jiàzi)
- Croatian: polica
- Czech: police
- Dutch: schap , rek , plank , legplank
- Finnish: hylly
- French: rayon , étagère
- German: Brett , Einlegeboden, Regal
- Hungarian: polc
- Italian: scaffale
- Japanese: 棚 (たな, tana)
- Korean: 선반 (seonban)
- Portuguese: prateleira
- Romanian: poliţă
- Russian: полка (pólka)
- Serbian:
- Slovene: polica
- Spanish: estante
- Swedish: hylla
- Telugu: అర (ara)
- Turkish: raf
capacity
projecting ledge resembling a shelf
- Dutch: schap
reef, shoal, sandbar
Extensive Definition
A shelf is a detail of furniture for storing
items.
It may also refer to:
- Shelf (computing), a user interface feature in the NeXTSTEP operating system
- Shelf, West Yorkshire, a village in England
- Continental shelf, the extended perimeter of a continent, usually covered by shallow seas
- Ice shelf, a thick platform of ice floating on the ocean surface
- Light shelf, A reflective element placed outside of a window to enhance room illumination by natural light
- Sulphur shelf, an edible mushroom
- Shelf life, the length of time that perishable items are considered suitable for sale or consumption
- Shelf registration, a registration arrangement for the sale of securities
- Shelf (sexual health service), Peterborough, an organisation in England
See also
shelf in Czech: Šelf
shelf in Simple English: Shelf
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
archives, armory, arsenal, attic, band, bank, bar, basement, bay, beam-end, bed, bedding, belt, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, conservatory, coral reef,
corbel, couche, course, crate, crib, cupboard, deck, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, flat, floor, ford, gallery, glory hole, godown, gradin, gradino, hob, hold, hutch, layer, ledge, level, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mantel, mantelshelf, measures, overlayer, overstory, predella, rack, reef, repertory, repository, reservoir, retable, rick, sandbank, sandbar, seam, shallow, shallows, shoal, shoal water, shoulder, stack, stack room, stage, step, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, story, stratum, substratum, superaltar, superstratum, supply base,
supply depot, tank,
thickness, tidal
flats, tier, topsoil, treasure house,
treasure room, treasury, underlayer, understory, understratum, vat, vault, warehouse, wetlands, wine cellar, zone