Shelves I ʃelf Put Book Top Wanted Bought

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

shelf

1. a flat board, made of wood, metal, glass, etc., fixed to the wall or forming part of a cupboard/closet, bookcase, etc., for things to be placed on
• I helped him put up some shelves in his bedroom.
• The book I wanted was on the top shelf.
• supermarket/library shelves
• empty shelves
2. a thing shaped like a shelf, especially a piece of rock sticking out from a cliff or from the edge of a mass of land under the sea
• the continental shelf
3. that can be bought immediately and does not have to be specially designed or ordered
• compare off the peg
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• I bought this package off the shelf.
• off-the-shelf software packages
• 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

Extra Examples

• He took a book down from the top shelf.
• 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 can’t reach the top shelf.
• 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 reached for the shelf next to the bed.
• She scanned the shelves of the library for new books.
• She soon learned how to put up her own shelves.
• Shelves lined the walls behind the long counter.
• Souvenirs filled the shelves.
• The DVD is flying off the shelves.
• The book deserves a place on everyone’s shelves.
• The cabinet has three shelves.
• The fridge had three shelves.
• The medicine has a shelf life of six months.
• The shelves were packed with dolls of every shape and size.
• The supermarket immediately removed the product from its shelves.
• The supermarket shelves were bare.
• The walls of her study were lined with shelves.
• Their new CD hits the shelves in May.
• a shelf of books on economics

Word Origin

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