English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English schelfe Old English sċylfe ( “ deck of a ship ” ) , distantly related to sculpt carve shell Dutch schelf
Pronunciation [ edit ] shelf (plural shelves
A simple wooden wall shelf
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 .
We keep the old newspapers on the bottom shelf of the cupboard, and our photos on the top shelf .
2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1] ," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012) :
Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
The capacity of such an object
a shelf of videos
A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
A reef , shoal or sandbar .
( computing ) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
2012 , Bradley Irby, Reengineering .NET
This is where the Visual Studio Shelving function can help. A shelf is a place on the server in source control that is separate from the main code line so it will not affect other developers. 2016 , Wouter de Kort, DevOps on the Microsoft Stack (page 114)
A shelveset allows you to store a changeset on the server without adding it to the current codebase and sharing it with team members directly. Each team member has his own “shelf ,” where he can store as many shelvesets as he wants. Synonyms [ edit ] Hyponyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Descendants [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
structure
Albanian: raft (sq) m
Arabic: رَفّ m ( raff )
Egyptian Arabic: رف m ( raff )
Armenian: դարակ (hy) ( darak )
Azerbaijani: rəf (az)
Bashkir: кәштә ( käştä )
Basque: apal
Belarusian: палі́ца f ( palíca )
Bengali: তাক ( tak )
Breton: estajerenn n
Bulgarian: по́лица (bg) f ( pólica ) , етаже́рка (bg) f ( etažérka ) , рафт (bg) m ( raft )
Burmese: စင် (my) ( cang )
Catalan: prestatge (ca) m estant (ca) m lleixa (ca) f
Cebuano: estante
Chechen: терхи ( terxi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 架 ( gaa3-2 )
Mandarin: 架子 (zh) ( jiàzi )
Min Nan: 架仔 (zh-min-nan) ( kè-á )
Czech: police (cs) f
Danish: hylde (da) c
Dutch: schap (nl) n rek (nl) n plank (nl) f legplank (nl) f
Esperanto: breto
Estonian: riiul
Faroese: hill f
Fijian: vata (fj)
Finnish: hylly (fi)
French: rayon (fr) m étagère (fr) f tablard (fr) m ( Switzerland )
Friulian: scansìe m
Galician: paramio m paraño m parañoa f andel (gl) m alzadeira f cunqueiro (gl) m vaseira f prateleira f
Georgian: თარო ( taro )
German: Regal (de) n
Greek: ράφι (el) n ( ráfi )
Gujarati: અભરાઈ f ( abharāī )
Hebrew: מַדָּף (he) m ( madáf )
Hindi: तख़्ता ( taxtā )
Hungarian: polc (hu) , stelázsi
Icelandic: hilla (is) f
Indonesian: rak (id)
Ingush: тархе ( tarxe )
Irish: seilf f
Italian: scaffale (it) m mensola (it) f ripiano (it) m palchetto (it) m
Japanese: 棚 (ja) ( たな , tana)
Kalmyk: таг ( tag )
Kazakh: сөре (kk) ( söre )
Khmer: ធ្នើរ (km) ( tnəə )
Komi-Permyak: джадж ( džadž )
Korean: 선반 (ko) ( seonban )
Kyrgyz: полка ( polka ) , текче (ky) ( tekçe )
Lao: ຫິ້ງ ( hing ) , ຊັ້ນ ( san )
Latvian: plaukts m
Ligurian: rician m
Lingala: motáláká class 3 /4
Lithuanian: lentyna f
Macedonian: полица f ( polica )
Malagasy: talantalana (mg)
Malay: rak (ms)
Maltese: xkaffa f
Manx: skelloo f
Maori: paenga whata
Middle English: stage
Mongolian: тавиур (mn) ( taviur )
Neapolitan: stìglio m scanzia f
Norman: ais m ( Guernsey, Jersey ) , êtagéthe f ( Jersey )
Northern Sami: hildu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hylle (no) m or f
Nynorsk: hylle f
Ojibwe: desaabaan
Ottoman Turkish: راف ( raf )
Persian: رف (fa) ( raf )
Polish: półka (pl) f regał (pl) m
Portuguese: prateleira (pt) f estante (pt) f
Romanian: poliță (ro) f raft (ro) n
Russian: по́лка (ru) f ( pólka )
Scottish Gaelic: sgeilp f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̀лица f ра̏ф m
Roman: pòlica (sh) f rȁf (sh) m
Sicilian: scaffa (scn) f
Slovak: polica f
Slovene: políca (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: regal m pólica f
Spanish: estante (es) m balda (es) f anaquel (es) m entrepaño (es) m
Swahili: rafu class 9 /10
Swedish: hylla (sv) c
Tajik: раф ( raf )
Tamil: அடுக்கம் (ta) ( aṭukkam ) , அடுக்கு (ta) ( aṭukku )
Tatar: киштә (tt) ( kiştä )
Telugu: అర (te) ( ara )
Thai: หิ้ง (th) ( hîng )
Tibetan: བང་ཁྲི ( bang khri )
Turkish: sergen (tr) , raf (tr)
Turkmen: tekje
Udmurt: ӝажы ( džažy )
Ukrainian: поли́ця f ( polýcja )
Urdu: طاق ( tāq )
Uyghur: جازا ( jaza )
Uzbek: polka (uz) , tokcha (uz)
Venetian: scansìa f
Vietnamese: giá sách ( bookshelf ) , giá (vi)
Vilamovian: faht n faocht n
Walloon: axhale f axhlete (wa) f
Welsh: silff (cy) f silffoedd (cy) f pl
Westrobothnian: hill f
Yakut: долбуур ( dolbuur )
Yiddish: פּאָליצע f ( politse )
Zulu: ishalufu class 5 /6
capacity
Dutch: schap (nl) n rek (nl) n
French: étagère (fr) f rayonnage (fr) m
Galician: paramio m paraño m parañoa f andel (gl) m alzadeira f cunqueiro (gl) m vaseira f prateleira f
Portuguese: prateleira (pt) f estante (pt) f
Spanish: estantería (es) f
Swedish: hylla (sv) c
Walloon: håynaedje (wa) m
projecting ledge resembling a shelf
reef, shoal, sandbar
Armenian: շելֆ (hy) ( šelf )
Bulgarian: шелф m ( šelf )
Galician: recife m pedrido m brica f ariño m sirte m baixío m
German: Schelf m
Irish: scairbh (ga) f
Latvian: šelfs m
Russian: шельф (ru) m ( šelʹf )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пличина f шелф m
Roman: pličina (sh) f šelf (sh) m
Spanish: arrecife (es) m banco (es) m cordón (es) m bajío (es) m
Swedish: bank (sv) c sandbank (sv) c kontinentalsockel (sv) c
Translations to be checked
References [ edit ] Anagrams [ edit ] Middle English [ edit ] shelf
Alternative form of schelfe 
