shelved in English

verb

1

place or arrange (items, especially books) on a shelf.

I have a vague memory of the books being shelved under ‘C’ in the library when I were a lass.

2

decide not to proceed with (a project or plan), either temporarily or permanently.

plans to reopen the school have been shelved

synonyms: postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, reschedule, hold over/off, put to one side, suspend, stay, keep in abeyance, mothball, abandon, drop, give up, stop, cancel, jettison, ax, put over, table, take a rain check on, put on ice, put on the back burner, put in cold storage, ditch, dump, junk

3

fit with shelves.

one whole long wall was shelved

4

(of ground) slope downward in a specified manner or direction.

the ground shelved gently down to the water

verb

• postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, reschedule, hold over/off, put to one side, suspend, stay, keep in abeyance, mothball, abandon, drop, give up, stop, cancel, jettison, ax, put over, table, take a rain check on, put on ice, put on the back burner, put in cold storage, ditch, dump, junk
• remit, table, prorogue, defer, set back, hold over, postpone, put off, put over

Use "shelved" in a sentence

1. Shelved cupboard for refrigerated goods and method of controlled/regulated circulation of air in the shelved cupboard

2. And they shelved the project.

3. Sadly, the project has now been shelved.

4. Books shelved as Bryology: Bryophyte Ecology by A

5. Plans to reopen the school have been shelved .

6. • The Ambitious touring database proposals have been shelved

7. Incautiousness booths oxyntic twice-shelved Anconad hoyman condylomas Mondayishness

8. Egypt's nuclear plans, however, were shelved after the Chernobyl accident.

9. The pioneers also found that some sailors never shelved their books.

10. The plans were shelved and it remains in Level 4 ever since.

11. Plans to expand the company have had to be quietly shelved.

12. Books shelved as Biomimicry: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M

13. He shelved the play after realizing the story would not work on stage.

14. Alba AmbertAverage rating 3.60 · 10 ratings · 0 reviews · shelved 35 times

15. Colette Average rating 3.80 · 28,916 ratings · 2,468 reviews · shelved 89,901 times

16. The bridge project appears to have been shelved but the fill remains on site.

17. Books shelved as Baathism: Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan by Joseph A

18. 13 synonyms for abeyance: shelved, pending, on ice, in cold storage, hanging fire, suspended, Abeyancy

19. Books shelved as Bromance: Battersea Parker by Jimmy Tudeski, The Crown Tower by Michael J

20. Synonyms for Adjourned include suspended, postponed, deferred, delayed, interrupted, prorogued, recessed, discontinued, stayed and shelved

21. So, I shelved it, and I made this other movie about a big ship that sinks.

22. Klepacki initially scored Red Alert with sci-fi camp in mind, but early songs were shelved.

23. Books shelved as Bibliophiles: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett, Mr

24. Mark Manson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 11 times as self-Actualization) avg rating 3.93 — 602,294 ratings — published 2016 Want to …

25. (shelved 1 time as ebook-reads-Burgomeister) avg rating 3.68 — 40,572 ratings — published 1992 Want to Read saving…

26. The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground.

27. Books shelved as Clairvoyants: An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris, The Red Heart of Jade by Marjorie M

28. Books shelved as Complexity-theory: Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell, Diversity and Complexity by Scott E

29. Books shelved as Bohemianism: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, The Bohemian Girl by Kenneth M

30. Books shelved as Claustrophobic: The Anomaly by Michael Rutger, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, The Handmaid's Tale by

31. Twelve Southerners (Introduction) (shelved 7 times as Agrarianism) avg rating 3.84 — 253 ratings — published 1930 Want to Read saving… Want to Read

32. Books shelved as Anglicanism: Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Chapman, A History of the Church in England by John R.H

33. Sarah MacLean (Goodreads Author) (shelved 10 times as Bluestocking-heroine) avg rating 4.04 — 24,772 ratings — published 2013 Want to Read saving… Want to Read

34. Books shelved as Anthropomorphic: Watership Down by Richard Adams, Redwall by Brian Jacques, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Charlotte's Web by E.B

35. Books shelved as Blaxploitation: Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim, Shaft's Revenge by David F

36. Ashlee Vance (Goodreads Author) (shelved 5 times as Biopic) avg rating 4.21 — 265,843 ratings — published 2015 Want to Read saving… Want to Read

37. Belted The state of mind of an individual who has intentionally or unintentionally swallowed, smoked, snorted or shelved one too many illicit substances.

38. Mary-Kay Wilmers (shelved 2 times as Anglophiles-delight) avg rating 3.47 — 70 ratings — published 2018 Want to Read saving… Want to Read

39. CBS, who was showing sitcoms and variety hours in color, but not dramas, bought Coronet Blue and possibly shelved it until they had full color (1966)

40. Books shelved as Bibliographies: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Yes Please by Amy Poehler, Who Was Abraham Lincoln?

41. Elly Griffiths (Goodreads Author) (shelved 3 times as Archaeological-fiction) avg rating 3.90 — 33,707 ratings — published 2009 Want to Read saving… Want to Read

42. Books shelved as Abduction: Room by Emma Donoghue, Still Missing by Chevy Stevens, Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott, Captive in the Dark by C.J

43. Books shelved as Borgesian: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges, The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary

44. Books shelved as Celibacy: A History Of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott, The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God by Sarah Coakley, Clown

45. Books shelved as Christology: On the Incarnation by Athanasius of Alexandria, The Passion of Jesus Christ by John Piper, The Cross of Christ by John R.W.

46. Books shelved as Byronic-hero: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Gabriel's Infer

47. Books shelved as holocaust-Auschwitz: Night by Elie Wiesel, Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from within the Camp by Eddy de Wind, Memories Drea

48. However, this was shelved after he won the singing contest which led to a contract with the Taiwan TV station, Tai Shi at the age of 17.

49. Books shelved as Coauthored: Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry, The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman, Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulit

50. Books shelved as pan-Africanism: Africa Must Unite by Kwame Nkrumah, Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon,