shelve
verb
uk/ʃelv/us/ʃelv/shelveverb(DELAY)
[T]
to not takeactionon something until alatertime:
推迟处理,搁置I've had to shelve myplanstobuya newcar, because I can'taffordit at themoment.我不得不推迟买新车的计划,因为目前我还买不起。
Delaying and wasting time
- ado
- busywork
- buy timeidiom
- carry
- carrysomethingover
- dally
- inefficiency
- inefficiently
- kick
- kicksomethinginto the long grassidiom
- kick the can down the roadidiom
- push
- retard
- retardation
- setsomeoneback(something)
- sit
- sit onsomething
- slow roll
- spin
- stall
shelveverb(SHELF)
[T]
to put something onto shelves, or tofixshelvessomewhere
把…放在架子上;给…装上架子Building: carpentry & joinery
- beading
- bevel
- bevelled
- cabinetmaker
- carpenter
- fretsaw
- gimlet
- intarsia
- jigsaw
- joinery
- mitre
- panel
- plane
- prime
- sand
- sandpaper
- sawdust
- season
- seasoned
- tenon
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Placing and positioning an object
shelveverb(SLOPE)
[I]geologyspecialized
When asurfacesuch as thebottomof theseashelves, itslopesdowngradually:
(海底等平面)逐渐倾斜Theseabedshelvesgentlyfor several hundredmetres.海床在几百米内逐渐倾斜。
Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
- acclivity
- angle
- angled
- askew
- bank
- cocked
- lopsided
- obliquely
- pitch
- pitched
- raked
- roll
- skew
- slanted
- slope
- steep
- steepen
- tilt
- tip(something/someone)over
- tippy