shelve

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ʃɛlv/    美 /ʃɛlv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc. archaic
    — "This lake," said Bruce, "whose barriers drear / Are precipices sharp and sheer, / Yielding no track for goat or deer, / Save the black shelves we tread,[…]"
  2. Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”). alt-of,alternative,archaic
    — But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.
动词 v.
  1. To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves. transitive
    — to shelve a closet or a library
  2. To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents. UK,dialectal,transitive
  3. To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf. transitive
    — The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
  4. Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope. intransitive
    — The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things.
  5. To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.; To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion. figuratively,slang,transitive
    — I love shelving ecstasy!
  6. To be in an inclined or sloping position. intransitive,obsolete
  7. To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.; To have sex with (someone). Wales,figuratively,slang,transitive
  8. To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.; To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.). figuratively,transitive
    — They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.
  9. To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.; To remove (someone) from active service. also,figuratively,reflexive,transitive
    — The time, too, nearly ripe for his great schemes, made it doubly necessary that he should exert himself, and prevent being shelved with a plausible excuse of tender compassion for his infirmities.
  10. To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang. intransitive,obsolete
    — Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built ſo ſheluing, that one cannot climbe it / VVithout apparent hazard of his life.

词形变化

shelves present,singular,third-person shelving participle,present shelved participle,past shelved past shelves plural shelves present,singular,third-person shelving participle,present shelved participle,past shelved past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template shelve infinitive shelve first-person,present,singular shelved first-person,past,singular shelve present,second-person,singular shelvest archaic,present,second-person,singular shelved past,second-person,singular shelvedst archaic,past,second-person,singular shelves present,singular,third-person shelveth archaic,present,singular,third-person shelved past,singular,third-person shelve plural,present shelved past,plural shelve present,subjunctive shelved past,subjunctive shelve imperative,present - imperative,past shelving participle,present shelved participle,past shelves plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bookshelve deshelve misshelve reshelve shelvement shelver shelveset shelving unshelve shelvy

词源

词源 1
The verb is a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf (“flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects”).
The noun is derived from etymology 1, verb sense 2 (“(obsolete) to hang over or project like a shelf”).
词源 2
From Late Middle English shelven (“to separate (someone or something) from another thing, keep away”); further etymology uncertain, possibly:
* from shelf, shelfe (“shelf; cabinet, cupboard; grassy bank”) (though this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary); or
* related to West Frisian skelf (“not level or straight, oblique”).
词源 3
Treated as a singular form of shelves, the plural of shelf (“reef; sandbar; shoal”).
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