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" You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan."
Maude Adams

Meaning of "shelve" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SHELVE

From shelves, plural of shelf.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SHELVE

ʃɛlv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHELVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shelve is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb shelve in English.

WHAT DOES SHELVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Şəlvə, Lachin

Coordinates: 39°50′08″N 46°17′56″E / 39.83556°N 46.29889°E / 39.83556; 46.29889 Şəlvə is a village in the Lachin Rayon of Azerbaijan.

Definition of shelve in the English dictionary

The first definition of shelve in the dictionary is to place on a shelf. Other definition of shelve is to provide with shelves. Shelve is also to put aside or postpone from consideration.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SHELVE

PRESENT

Present
I shelve
you shelve
he/she/it shelves
we shelve
you shelve
they shelve
Present continuous
I am shelving
you are shelving
he/she/it is shelving
we are shelving
you are shelving
they are shelving
Present perfect
I have shelved
you have shelved
he/she/it has shelved
we have shelved
you have shelved
they have shelved
Present perfect continuous
I have been shelving
you have been shelving
he/she/it has been shelving
we have been shelving
you have been shelving
they have been shelving
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I shelved
you shelved
he/she/it shelved
we shelved
you shelved
they shelved
Past continuous
I was shelving
you were shelving
he/she/it was shelving
we were shelving
you were shelving
they were shelving
Past perfect
I had shelved
you had shelved
he/she/it had shelved
we had shelved
you had shelved
they had shelved
Past perfect continuous
I had been shelving
you had been shelving
he/she/it had been shelving
we had been shelving
you had been shelving
they had been shelving
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will shelve
you will shelve
he/she/it will shelve
we will shelve
you will shelve
they will shelve
Future continuous
I will be shelving
you will be shelving
he/she/it will be shelving
we will be shelving
you will be shelving
they will be shelving
Future perfect
I will have shelved
you will have shelved
he/she/it will have shelved
we will have shelved
you will have shelved
they will have shelved
Future perfect continuous
I will have been shelving
you will have been shelving
he/she/it will have been shelving
we will have been shelving
you will have been shelving
they will have been shelving
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would shelve
you would shelve
he/she/it would shelve
we would shelve
you would shelve
they would shelve
Conditional continuous
I would be shelving
you would be shelving
he/she/it would be shelving
we would be shelving
you would be shelving
they would be shelving
Conditional perfect
I would have shelve
you would have shelve
he/she/it would have shelve
we would have shelve
you would have shelve
they would have shelve
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been shelving
you would have been shelving
he/she/it would have been shelving
we would have been shelving
you would have been shelving
they would have been shelving
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you shelve
we let´s shelve
you shelve
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to shelve
Past participle
shelved
Present Participle
shelving
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHELVE

delve · helve · twelve

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHELVE

shellycoat · Shelta · shelter · shelter belt · shelter tent · sheltered · sheltered accommodation · sheltered homes · sheltered housing · sheltered workshop · shelterer · shelterless · sheltery · sheltie · shelties · shelty · shelver · shelves · shelving · shelvy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHELVE

absolve · ball valve · check valve · cut-off valve · devolve · dissolve · evolve · foot valve · gate valve · halve · involve · relief valve · resolve · revolve · salve · solve · Super Twelve · valve · volve · wolve

Synonyms and antonyms of shelve in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHELVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shelve» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «shelve» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SHELVE

Find out the translation of shelve to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of shelve from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shelve» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

搁置
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

dar carpetazo a
570 millions of speakers
en

English

shelve
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

टांड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

отложить
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

engavetar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সরাইয়া রাখা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

mettre en veilleuse
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Simpan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

aufschieben
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

棚上げにする
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

보류하다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Shelve
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghiêng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

புகலிடம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

शेल्फ
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

rafa kaldırmak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

accantonare
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

półka
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

відкласти
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

raftul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ράφι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

shelve
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skrin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shelve

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHELVE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shelve

EXAMPLES

3 QUOTES WITH «SHELVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shelve.
1
Maude Adams
You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.
2
Gavyn Davies
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
3
Tom Vilsack
Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHELVE»

Discover the use of shelve in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shelve and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Python in a Nutshell
shelve. Module. The shelve module orchestrates modules cPickle (or pickle, when cPickle is not available in the current Python installation), cStringIO (or StringIO, when cStringIO is not available in the current Python installation), and anydbm ...
Alex Martelli, 2006
2
The geology and mineral veins of the country around Shelve, ...
In the parish of Chirbury, a few miles to the west of Shelve, barrows and traces of ancient encampments occur, while the line of the retreat of Caractacus and his brave British forces, before the advancing Roman General Ostorius, is indicated ...
George H. Morton, 1869
3
Programming Python
The shelve interface is just as simple as pickle: it is identical to dictionaries, with extra open and close calls. In fact, to your code, a shelve really does appear to be a persistent dictionary of persistent objects; Python does all the work of ...
Mark Lutz, 2010
4
Text Processing in Python
Repr) : def repr_f ileCself , obj , level): if obj. name in ['<stdin>', '<stdout>', '<stderr >'] : return obj . name else: return ' obj ' aRepr = MyRepr() print aRepr. repr(sys. stdin) # prints '<stdin>' shelve o General persistent dictionary The module shelve  ...
David Mertz, 2003
5
Python Essential Reference
One approach to this problem is to write a pair of functions that simply read and write data from a file in a special format.An alternative approach is to use the pickle and shelve modules. The pickle module serializes an object into a stream of ...
David M. Beazley, 2009
6
Python Cookbook
When you assign to a shelve object's item,the shelve object's __setitem__ method gets invoked,and it appropriately updates the shelve object itself, so that the change does occur. Alternatively,you can add the flag writeback=True at the time ...
Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher, 2005
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Learning Python
Although it's easy to use pickle by itself tostore objects in simple flat files and load them from there later,the shelve module providesan extralayerof structure that allowsyou to store pickled objectsbykey. shelve translatesan objecttoitspickled ...
Mark Lutz, 2013
8
Python For Dummies
To allow changes to mutable objects in the database, type a comma and writeback=True. myshelf = shelve.open('mydatabase', 'w', protocol=2, writeback= True This feature makes the database slow to close. If you don't turn on the writeback ...
Stef Maruch, Aahz Maruch, 2011
9
Python Scripting for Computational Science
Chapter 8.3.2, we can use the shelve module and store the objects in a file- based dictionary, referred to as a shelf object. The shelf object's data reside on disk, not in memory, thus providing functionality for persistent objects, i.e., objects that ...
Hans Petter Langtangen, 2008
10
Jython for Java Programmers
Shelves Jython's shelve module combines the convenience of DBM catalogs with pickle's serialization to create a persistent object storage. A shelve acts like a dictionary, similar to the dumbdbm module, but the difference is that a shelve ...
Robert W. Bill, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHELVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shelve is used in the context of the following news items.
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Oil groups have shelved $200bn in new projects as low prices bite
The world's big energy groups have shelved $200bn of spending on new projects in an urgent round of cost-cutting aimed at protecting investors' dividends as ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
Major rail projects faces uncertain future as Railways shelve proposals
MALAPPURAM: The railways' decision to shelve 12 projects is going to badly affect four other rail line projects in Malabar including the Thirunnavaya-Guruvayur ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
3
Lawmakers shelve bill to change voter-approved crime measure
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers are shelving a bill intended to change a voter-approved initiative that reduced criminal penalties for some ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
4
No decision to shelve AIMUp
SIR, Neil Andrew articulated his enthusiasm for the AIMUp project in a letter to your paper last week; an enthusiasm that I am sure all of the Innerleithen & District ... «Peeblesshire News, Jul 15»
5
Councillors reject attempt to shelve North Horsham development
AN ATTEMPT to shelve a proposed 2,500-home North Horsham development was narrowly rejected by councillors in an emotive debate tonight (Wednesday, ... «West Sussex County Times, Jun 15»
6
For Now, US Ready to Shelve Iran's Past Military Programs to Win …
The Obama administration is ready to drop a long-standing demand that Tehran open up about its secret missile research, provided Iran agrees to tough ... «Foreign Policy, Jun 15»
7
Tories attempt to shelve proposed 2500-home North Horsham …
An attempt to shelve the proposed North Horsham development has been tabled by Conservative councillors. A Notice of Motion has been submitted for ... «West Sussex County Times, Jun 15»
8
Behind Apple's Move to Shelve TV Plans
But after nearly a decade of research, Apple quietly shelved plans to make such a set more than a year ago, according to people familiar with the matter. «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
9
Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping Aim to Shelve Rifts Amid Economic …
NEW DELHI — The days before Narendra Modi left for China, his first visit as India's prime minister, brought pinprick reminders of the geopolitical rifts dividing ... «New York Times, May 15»
10
Ex-Irrational developers shelve The Black Glove
Steven told us about The Black Glove, a surreal first-person game from former Irrational (BioShock) developers, a couple of times. That was several months ago. «Destructoid, May 15»
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