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Shelf

/ʃɛlf/

A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects.

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📖 Definitions of "Shelf"

noun

1
A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects.
2
The capacity of such an object
"a shelf of videos"
3
A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
4
A reef, shoal or sandbar.

🔄 Synonyms of "Shelf"

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Word	Definition
ledgenoun	A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Shelf"

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Word	Definition
ledgenoun	A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
binnoun	A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
cabinetnoun	A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
drawernoun	An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
dressernoun	(US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
closetnoun	A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
cupboardnoun	A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
pantrynoun	A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.
foldingnoun	The action of folding; a fold.
barnoun	A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
fencenoun	A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
decknoun	(card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
sillnoun	(architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
scaffoldnoun	A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
scaffoldingnoun	A temporary modular system of tubes, bamboo or wood forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.
planknoun	A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
racknoun	A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
barriernoun	A structure that bars passage.
padnoun	A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
barrelnoun	(countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.