shelfy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Abounding in shelves; containing crossbedded hard and soft layers that result in rocky shelves at varying angles.
    — And, o'er the dang'rous deep, secure the navy flies; / Glides by the Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, / Long infamous for ships and sailors lost
  2. Full of strata of rock. obsolete
    — The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten his root.
  3. Shelf-like; resembling or pertaining to a shelf.
    — His rosebud lay on shelfy breast,And deem it quite a fragrant jest.
  4. Relatively horizontal and flat with low friction.
    — Reduced models have long been used to describe the mechanics of ice sheets and ice shelves, while more recently a shelf-like model has been used to describe the mechanics of shelfy streams, where the basal friction is ' small ' in a precisely definable sense.

词形变化

more shelfy comparative most shelfy superlative

词汇关系

近义词
shelvy

词源

From shelf + -y.
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