bookshelve

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To furnish (a room etc.) with bookshelves. transitive
    — Their mutual courtesy remained, and they had their repertoire of comfortable rituals of simulated affection, but that was all. There had been too many houses, too many mortgages, too many false dawns, too many dark and disappointing kitchens, too many curtains that were never made and hung, too many rooms never finally bookshelved and decorated.
  2. To postpone or put aside (a project, etc.); to shelve. figuratively,rare,transitive
    — In other cases, suppliers had technologies on their roadmaps that were not yet robust enough or cost-effective to be integrated into existing technologies. In such cases, the technology was “bookshelved” and revisited in the next new-product cycle.

词形变化

bookshelves present,singular,third-person bookshelving participle,present bookshelved participle,past bookshelved past

词汇关系

相关词
bookshelved bookshelver bookshelving

词源

From book + shelve, or a back-formation from bookshelves, the plural of bookshelf.
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