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Meaning of shelving

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

shelving

verb

Definitions

  1. To place on a shelf.

    Example: The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.

  2. To set aside; to quit or postpone.

    Example: They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.

  3. To furnish with shelves.

    Example: to shelve a closet or a library

  4. To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.

noun

Definitions

  1. Shelves collectively.

    Example: There is ample shelving in the basement.

  2. (chiefly in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.

  3. The bank of a river etc.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Sloping steeply