Phrase Hound found 18 phrases and 9 compound words that contain shelves. The most common are listed below. Open shelves in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 18
- hit the shelvesTo become available for purchase.
- hits the shelvesthird-person singular simple present indicative of hit the shelves: To become available for purchase.
- hitting the shelvespresent participle and gerund of hit the shelves
- continental shelvesplural of continental shelf: The outer area of a land mass covered by a shallow sea that extends into open ocean.
- ice shelvesplural of ice shelf: A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.
- fly off the shelvesTo be sold in large quantities, very rapidly.
- flying off the shelvespresent participle and gerund of fly off the shelves
- staggered shelvesIn Japanese architecture, two shelves at different heights, each one extending from one wall while not touching the other wall, but mutually joined in the middle with a vertical segment.
- high shelvesplural of high shelf: A filter that gradually increases or decreases frequencies above a certain point in the frequency spectrum.
- swing shelvesplural of swing shelf: A hanging shelf.
- top shelvesplural of top shelf: Best, or high quality.
- sulfur shelvesplural of sulfur shelf: A species of bracket fungus, Laetiporus sulphureus, found in Europe and North America.
- sulphur shelvesplural of sulphur shelf: A species of bracket fungus, Laetiporus sulphureus, found in Europe and North America.
- beehive shelvesplural of beehive shelf: A round piece of laboratory equipment used mostly in school demonstrations to support a gas jar whilst a gas is being collected over water.
- simian shelvesplural of simian shelf: A bony thickening on the front of the mandible of an ape.
- flies off the shelvesthird-person singular simple present indicative of fly off the shelves: To be sold in large quantities, very rapidly.
- flew off the shelvessimple past of fly off the shelves
- flown off the shelvespast participle of fly off the shelves: To be sold in large quantities, very rapidly.
Compound words 9
- bookshelvesplural of bookshelf: A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
- beamshelvesplural of beamshelf: The structure that supports each end of a crossbeam
- iceshelvesplural of iceshelf: A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.
- mantelshelvesplural of mantelshelf: A shelf above a fireplace.
- misshelvesthird-person singular simple present indicative of misshelve: To place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
- rockshelvesplural of rockshelf: A relatively flat stretch of rock, as at a coastline.
- shelvesetsplural of shelveset: A kind of changeset containing changes that have been temporarily set aside.
- toolshelvesplural of toolshelf: A shelf for storing tools.
- undershelvesplural of undershelf: A storage area beneath a shelf