Shelf vs. Shelve: What’s the Difference?

• Shelve

  Şəlvə (also, Shal’va, Shel’va, and Shel’ve) is a village in the Lachin Rayon of Azerbaijan.

• Shelf (noun)

  A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects.

• Shelf (noun)

  The capacity of such an object

  “a shelf of videos”

• Shelf (noun)

  A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.

• Shelf (noun)

  A reef, shoal or sandbar.

• Shelve (verb)

  to place on a shelf

  “The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.”

• Shelve (verb)

  to set aside, quit, or halt

  “They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.”

• Shelve (verb)

  To furnish with shelves.

  “to shelve a closet or a library”

• Shelve (verb)

  To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.

• Shelve (verb)

  To have sex with.

• Shelve (verb)

  To slope; to incline.

• Shelve (noun)

  A rocky ledge or shelf.

• Shelf (noun)

  a flat length of wood or rigid material, attached to a wall or forming part of a piece of furniture, that provides a surface for the storage or display of objects.

• Shelf (noun)

  a ledge of rock or protruding strip of land.

• Shelf (noun)

  a submarine bank, or a part of the continental shelf.

• Shelf (noun)

  an informer.

• Shelf (verb)

  inform on (someone)

  “he never shelfed a man in his life”

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