Shelving Meaning
/ʃˈɛlvɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjSloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).
verbpresent participle and gerund of shelve
Sentence Examples
We need to install more shelving in the garage for the tools.
Shelving is a set of shelves used for storing various items.
We bought new metal shelving to organize the garage.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We installed adjustable ____ in the closet to maximize space.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We installed new adjustable ____ in the pantry to better organize all of our dry goods.
Word Origin & History
By surface analysis, shelve + -ing.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so shelving that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life."
— c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, Scene 1:
"We still continued winding round Skiddaw, the sides of which are every where rather shelving, than steep."
— 1789, William Gilpin, Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, London: R. Blamire, Volume 2, Section 36, p. 157:
"The town of Abda is built upon the top and down the steeply shelving face of an isolated rocky spur,"
— 1914, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 5, in The Wilderness of Zin,, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1936, page 109:
"[…] a gently shelving plain led to a huge forest through which there were tracks that could safely be followed."
— 1987, Edward Rutherfurd, Sarum, London: Century, page 6:
"So, creaking and creaking, and the shelvins skirling under the weight of their load, they passed that danger point, the carts plodded into motion again […]"
— 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 47:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We installed adjustable ____ in the closet to maximize space.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We installed new adjustable ____ in the pantry to better organize all of our dry goods.