English-Thai Dictionary

shelve

VT วาง บน หิ้ง  wang-bon-hing

 

shelve

VT เลื่อน ไป ก่อน  พัก ไว้ ก่อน  รอ ไว้ ก่อน  adjourn delay hold prolong postpone luan-pai-kon

 

shelve down to

PHRV ค่อยๆ  ลาด ลง  slope down koi-koi-lad-long

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHELVE

v.t.shelv. To place on a shelf or on shelves. [Not in use. ]

 

SHELVE

v.i.to incline; to be sloping.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SHELVE

SHELVE Shelve, v. t.

 

1. To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.

 

2. To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.

 

SHELVE

Shelve, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shelved; p. pr. & vb. n. Shelving. ] Etym: [Perhapss originally from the same source as shallow, but influenced by shelf a ledge, a platform. ]

 

Defn: To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

shelve

shelve 1 |SHelv ʃɛlv | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 place or arrange (items, esp. books ) on a shelf. 2 decide not to proceed with (a project or plan ), either temporarily or permanently: plans to reopen the school have been shelved. 3 fit with shelves: one whole long wall was shelved. DERIVATIVES shelv er noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘project like a shelf ’ (Shakespearean usage )): from shelves, plural of shelf .

 

shelve

shelve 2 |ʃɛlv SHelv | ▶verb [ no obj. ] (of ground ) slope downward in a specified manner or direction: the ground shelved gently down to the water. ORIGIN late Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps from shelf .

 

shelves

shelves |SHelvz ʃɛlvz | plural form of shelf.

 

Oxford Dictionary

shelve

shelve 1 |ʃɛlv | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 place or arrange (items, especially books ) on a shelf. 2 decide not to proceed with (a project or plan ), either temporarily or permanently: plans to reopen the school have been shelved. 3 fit with shelves: one whole long wall was shelved. DERIVATIVES shelver noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘project like a shelf ’ (Shakespearean usage )): from shelves, plural of shelf 1 .

 

shelve

shelve 2 |ʃɛlv | ▶verb [ no obj., with adverbial ] (of ground ) slope downwards in a specified manner or direction: the ground shelved gently down to the water. ORIGIN late Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps from shelf 1 .

 

shelves

shelves |ʃɛlvz | plural form of shelf 1.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

shelve

shelve verb plans to reopen the school have been shelved: postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, reschedule, hold over /off, put to one side, suspend, stay, keep in abeyance, mothball; abandon, drop, give up, stop, cancel, jettison, ax, put over, table, take a rain check on; informal put on ice, put on the back burner, put in cold storage, ditch, dump, junk. ANTONYMS execute.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

shelve

shelve verb plans to reopen the school have been shelved: put to one side, lay aside, pigeonhole, stay, stand over, keep in abeyance, suspend, mothball; postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, hold over /off, carry over, reschedule, do later, adjourn; put off the evil day /hour; abandon, drop, abolish, withdraw, throw out, do away with, give up, take away, stop, put an end to, cancel, eliminate, cut, jettison; N. Amer. put over, table, lay on the table, take a rain check on; N. Amer. Law continue; informal put on ice, put on the back burner, put in cold storage, axe, ditch, dump, junk, chuck in; rare remit, respite. ANTONYMS carry out, execute, implement; revive.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

shelve

shelve 1 /ʃelv /動詞 他動詞 1 〈計画 考えなど 〉を棚上げする, 延期する, 取りやめる .2 〈本など 〉を棚に置く [並べる ].3 …を解雇 [免職 ]する .4 …に棚を付ける .

 

shelve

shelve 2 動詞 自動詞 〈土地が 〉【海などに向かって 】緩やかに傾斜している (up, down ) «towards » .

 

shelves

shelves /ʃelvz /名詞 shelfの複数形 .