Shelf is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHELF in dictionary:

VERB:
• to put on a shelf, to shelve
• inform on (someone)
• A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
• A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
• A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
• A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
• put on a shelf
NOUN:
• a board fixed horizontally on a wall, for putting things on
• 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.
• a ledge of rock or protruding strip of land.
• a submarine bank, or a part of the continental shelf.
• an informer.
• board fixed horizontally for holding things
• a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects
• a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a flat rigid structure used to support articles

Words related to SHELF

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Words that contain SHELF

shelfs12 shelfy15 shelfed14 shelfful17 shelfier14 shelfing15 bookshelf21 shelffuls18 shelfiest15 shelflike19 shelfroom17 bushelful17 shelfrooms18 bushelfuls18 mantelshelf19 shelftalker21 shelftalkers22

How to use SHELF in a sentence

• This second shelf was smaller than the first, and as I blinked at the light I saw that it held about a score of men.
• Passing between these, we ascended to the shelf dividing the waters of the Cydnus and the Sihoon.
• It was a sort of tobacco box, really, and stood on a shelf.
• Captain Riggs was fully dressed, and sat at a shelf which dropped from the wall.
• When she had arranged one shelf, she was proceeding to do the same with the next, but James said she need not do any more then.
• There were a few good books on a rough shelf, and a spray of autumn leaves lay on the table.
• A shelf in a greenhouse is a good position, and plants in a single row upon it will grow stout and short-jointed.
• Eliza, in the closet, leaned her head against the pile of linen on an upper shelf, and was quite still for some time.
• She had fallen to the floor just beneath the shelf on which the lamp sat, and she raised herself on an elbow and looked around.
• They could only find one spoon on the shelf, so they decided they would each have a spoonful in turn.
• Unlike Wordsworth, who was content with a few tattered volumes on a kitchen shelf, Emerson worked among books.
• The old man held on by the shelf of the cupboard, and gradually came to himself.
• Insert the chimney in a hole cut in a wood shelf used as a support.
• The way was clear but there was a soft little quiver in her voice that caused me carefully to label the unknown William, and lay him on a shelf for future reference.
• The class number serves also as the location number and the shelf number in common use is entirely dispensed with.
• He took it down from the shelf and found the picture.
• Men much alike in views, endowments, and accomplishments, they had played out their parts in public life and had been consigned to their Boston shelf.
• Thore, will you find an additional crown in a bag of a hundred pounds? No, certainly, if the borrower puts the bag of one hundred pounds on the shelf.
• My husband used to have one on his closet shelf, and I never went near it, and always locked the room when he was out.
• At the top, on a little shelf, under hundreds of feet of overhanging rock, some stones had been built round and over a little space for passing the night.
• I turned restlessly in my narrow bed, got up, and stood at the window, tried first the upper shelf, and then the lower, but no possible plan presented itself.

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