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Overview of verb shelve

      »   The verb shelve has 2 meanings (first 1 from tagged texts)

• postpone, Prorogue1.) Postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off -- (hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam")
  
  2.) Prorogue -- (adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body)
  
  prorogue, hold over, Put1.) Put option, put -- (the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date)
  
  1.) Put, set, place, pose, position, lay -- (put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point")
  
  put over, Table1.) Table, tabular array -- (a set of data arranged in rows and columns; "see table 1")
  
  2.) Table -- (a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a sturdy table")
  
  table, shelve, Set1.) Set -- (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth")
  
  2.) Set -- ((mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite")
  
  set back, Defer1.) Postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off -- (hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam")
  
  2.) Submit, bow, defer, accede, give in -- (submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure")
  
  defer, remit, Put1.) Put option, put -- (the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date)
  
  1.) Put, set, place, pose, position, lay -- (put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point")
  
  put off -- (Hold1.) Clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold -- (the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing")
  
  2.) Appreciation, grasp, hold -- (understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices")
  
  hold back to a Later1.) Future, later, ulterior -- (coming at a subsequent time or stage; "the future president entered college at the age of 16"; "awaiting future actions on the bill"; "later developments"; "without ulterior argument")
  
  2.) Late, later -- (at or toward an end or late period or stage of development; "the late phase of feudalism"; "a later symptom of the disease"; "later medical science could have saved the child")
  
  later time; "let's Postpone1.) Postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off -- (hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam")
  
  postpone the exam")

• shelve -- (Place1.) Topographic point, place, spot -- (a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic")
  
  2.) Place, property -- (any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House")
  
  place on a Shelf1.) Shelf -- (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)
  
  2.) Ledge, shelf -- (a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water)
  
  shelf; "shelve books")