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Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1858, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter 3, p. 87, her cheeks, which, on Whitsunday, loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work, were, on Trinity Sunday, seen reposing in distinct red outline on her shelving bust, like the sun on a fog-bank
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: inclining, pitched, tilted
Antonyms: none provided
Shelves collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- a shelving unit
- There is ample shelving in the basement.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A sloping surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: declivity, slope
Antonyms: none provided
present participle and gerund of shelve
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
By surface analysis, shelve + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Māori:
tahatō
— sloping steeply
