shelving

verbdefer, postpone

Synonyms for shelving

verb defer, postpone

Antonyms for shelving

Word Origin & History

1590s, "to overhang," also "to provide with shelves," probably a back-formation from shelves, plural of shelf (n.1). Meaning "put on a shelf" first recorded 1650s; metaphoric sense of "lay aside, dismiss" is from 1812. Related: Shelved; shelving.

Example Sentences for shelving

Here he emptied his pockets on the table and built a shelving house of gold.

As they lay, the shelving rock was less than two feet above their heads.

This shelving of the real facts, of course, is unconscious on the part of women.

If there are cliffs or shelving rocks near by, go and see them.

The narrow, shelving beach, rivalled the whiteness of a fresh snow-drift.

Gradually the water shoaled as they made their way up the shelving sand.

Then, when we could see sufficiently, we swam to a shelving rock, and landed in safety.

But pray recollect that they grow where the rocks are both slippery and shelving.

Its bow had been pulled out of the water which deepened from a shelving bank.

Swinging his boat about, he drove its prow against the shelving bank.