transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃelv ]
( shelves, shelving, shelved)
1.
If someone shelves a plan or project, they decide not to continue with it, either for a while or permanently.
Atlanta has shelved plans to include golf in the 1996 Games...
Sadly, the project has now been shelved.
VERB : V n , be V-ed
2.
If an area of ground next to or under the sea shelves , it slopes downwards.
The shoreline shelves away steeply.
...a gently shelving beach.
VERB : V adv / prep , V-ing
3.
Shelves is the plural of shelf .