shelveverb
uk/ʃelv/us/ʃelv/shelve verb (DELAY)
[ T ] to not take action on something until a later time:
I've had to shelve my plans to buy a new car, because I can't afford it at the moment.
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Delaying and wasting time
- ado
- be on ice idiom
- bugger
- bugger about
- bugger sb about
- carry
- hold
- hold sb over
- hold sb/sth back
- hold sb/sth up
- hold up
- ice
- kick
- push
- retard
- retardation
- set sth/sb back
- sit
- sit on sth
- spin your wheels idiom
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shelve verb (SHELF)
[ T ] to put something onto shelves, or to fix shelves somewhere
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Building: carpentry & joinery
- beading
- bevel
- bevelled
- cabinetmaker
- carpenter
- fretsaw
- gimlet
- jigsaw
- joinery
- mitre
- mortice
- panel
- plane
- prime
- sand
- sandpaper
- sawdust
- season
- tenon
- veneer
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Placing and positioning an object
shelve verb (SLOPE)
[ I ] specialized geology When a surface such as the bottom of the sea shelves, it slopes down gradually:
The sea bed shelves gently for several hundred metres.
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Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
- angle
- askew
- bank
- cocked
- cockeyed
- fall away
- oblique
- obliquely
- pitch
- pitched
- raked
- roll
- skew
- skew-whiff
- slanted
- slope
- steep
- steepen
- tip (sth/sb) over
- yaw
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