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Syllabification: (shelf)

Pronunciation: /SHelf/

Definition of shelf

a flat length of wood or rigid material, attached to a wall or forming part of a piece of furniture, that provides a surface for the storage or display of objects.
a ledge of rock or protruding strip of land.
a submarine bank, or a part of the continental shelf.

Phrases

off the shelf: not designed or made to order but taken from existing stock or supplies:off-the-shelf software packages
on the shelf: (of people or things) no longer useful or desirable:an injury that has kept him on the shelf

Middle English: from Middle Low German schelf; related to Old English scylfe 'partition', scylf 'crag'

Change the -f to -ves to make the plurals of nouns that end in a consonant or a single vowel plus -f or -fe: (shelves).

Definition of shelf in the British & World English dictionary

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