Definition of Shelf

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Definition of Shelf

Shelf

A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.

A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.

A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.

A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.

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Shelf Quotations

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
Sarah Jessica Parker

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
James Cash Penney

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
Alan Alda

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler

I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.
Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry

Shelf Translations

shelf in Afrikaans is rakkie
shelf in Dutch is schap, plank
shelf in Finnish is hylly
shelf in German is Einlegeboden, Brett, Regal
shelf in Italian is scaffale
shelf in Spanish is tabla, estante
shelf in Swedish is hylla, rev

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