OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7154

shelf

/ʃɛlf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
anaquel • balda • entrepaño • estante
A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.
Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricit…
We keep the old newspapers on the bottom shelf of the cupboard, and our photos on the top shelf.
estantería
The capacity of such an object
a shelf of videos
ménsula • repisa
A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 7155

shelf

/ʃɛlf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
arrecife • bajío • banco • cordón
A reef, sandbar, or shoal.
And all was stillness, save the sea-bird's cry, / And dolphin's leap, and little billow crost / By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret / Against the boundary it scarcely wet…
But upon inquiry among the company, this plan was wrecked upon the ordinary shelve, to wit, the difficulty of finding performers who would consent to assume the lower characters of…
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