shelving
shelving is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.
- 2.The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.
- 3.Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acclivity
- ascent
- bank
- beach
- bend
- bevel
- bias
- cant
- crookedness
- curve
- declivity
- descent
- devexity
- dip
- distortion
- downhill
- easy
- fall
- gentle
- gradient
- ground
- hill
- inclination
- intersect
- lack
- leaning
- list
- lurch
- obliquity
- parallelism
- rapid
- rise
- rising
- slant
- slope
- slopeness
- swag
- talus
- tilt
- tower
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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