Shelves I ʃelf Put Wanted Supermarket Store Bought

• i helped him put up some shelves in his bedroom.
• the book i wanted was on the top shelf.
• supermarket shelves
• store shelves

shelf

1. a flat board, made of wood, metal, glass, etc., fixed to the wall or forming part of a cupboard, bookcase, etc., for things to be placed on
• SEE ALSO top-shelf
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/top-shelf
• I helped him put up some shelves in his bedroom.
• The book I wanted was on the top shelf.
• supermarket shelves
• store shelves
• The product should hit store shelves by August.
• library shelves
• empty shelves
• the powerful retailers who control what products get shelf space

Extra Examples

• He's got a job stocking shelves in a supermarket.
• Her diaries just sat on the shelf for years.
• Hundreds of books lined the shelves.
• I knocked it off the shelf by accident.
• I put the box back on the shelf.
• I've cleared a shelf in the bedroom for you.
• She scanned the shelves of the library for new books.
• Shelves lined the walls behind the long counter.
• Souvenirs filled the shelves.
• The DVD is flying off the shelves (= selling very quickly).
• The shelves were packed with dolls of every shape and size.
• The supermarket immediately removed the product from its shelves.
2. a thing like a shelf in shape, especially a piece of rock sticking out from a cliff or from the edge of a mass of land under the sea
3. that can be bought immediately and does not have to be specially designed or ordered
• COMPARE off the peg
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/peg_1#peg_idmg_1
• I bought this package off the shelf.
• Some courses can be bought off the shelf as self-contained study packages.
4. not wanted by anyone; not used
5. considered to be too old to get married
6. to stop something from being sold
• The slimming pills were taken off the market.
• Thousands of egg products were taken off the shelves following the health scare.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Middle Low German schelf; related to Old English scylfe ‘partition’, scylf ‘crag’.