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How to pronounce shelf in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ledge
Type of ridge
Has types berm
Derivation shelfy
Type Words
Type of support
Has types mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece, overmantel, bookshelf, hob, mantel

Examples of shelf

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Refrigerate in original carton on a shelf, in back of refrigerator, not in door.
From the sacbee.com
Israel knows it has a short shelf-life before it is overwhelmed by demographics.
From the washingtontimes.com
A shelf hangs on the west wall along with a scythe, a sword, a saddle, and boot.
From the kansas.com
Cook, already on the shelf with shoulder stiffness, caught the finger in a door.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
That translates into more choice for consumers as the upstarts gain shelf space.
From the businessweek.com
This tourist enclave is a dead certainty for those seeking a top-shelf vacation.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Tuck a square of nonslip shelf liner or soft foam under each to prevent sliding.
From the sacbee.com
They are native to Japan and can live from the estuary to the continental shelf.
From the sciencedaily.com
Snorkel or dive the edge of the continental shelf at Agincourt Reef from Cairns.
From the cairns.com.au
More examples
  • A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects
  • Ledge: a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
  • The Shelf is an interface feature in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and is used as a repository to store links to commonly used files, directories and programs, and as a temporary "holding" place to move/copy files and directories around in the file system hierarchy. ...
  • Shelf is a voluntary organisation created with the aim of bringing new levels of sexual health awareness to young people of the United Kingdom. It is unique in that it was founded by four Year 10 students of Peterborough in April 2007. ...
  • The song "Shelf" is off the Jonas Brothers third studio record A Little Bit Longer.
  • A flat, rigid, rectangular structure, fixed at right angles to a wall, and used to support, store or display objects; The capacity of such an object; as, a shelf of videos; A projecting ledge that resembles such an object; A reef, shoal or sandbar
  • (Shelves) To see empty shelves in dreams, indicates losses and consequent gloom. Full shelves, augurs happy contentment through the fulfillment of hope and exertions. See
  • (Shelves) Are flat slabs of a special high temperature material on which ware is place inside the kiln.
  • (Shelves) In the constant struggle to make more stuff fit into less space, one handy item is the expanding shelf. This shelf maximizer fits into your cabinet and doubles your surface area by providing an extra level on which to store things. ...