SHELF

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Traducere în limba română

shelf, plural shelves substantiv

1. poliţă, raft, etajeră;

(fig.) to lay / to put on the shelf a) a pune la index / la dosar; b) (fig.) a scoate la pensie.

2. (geogr.) prag, treaptă, umăr, teşitură.

3. recif, banc, prag de nisip (sub apă).

4. (geol.) zonă terigenă.

5. (mar.) stringher, întăritură longitudinală.

6. (mine) rocă, strat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

There is less dust in this corner of the shelf than elsewhere.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The study shows that melting in this specific region is 10 times higher than the average melt rate expected for the ice shelf as a whole.

(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, Editura Global Info)

“Oh, my liver!” cried the old man, throwing the jacket on a shelf.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

So the sparrow perched upon the shelf: and having first looked carefully about her to see if anyone was watching her, she pecked and scratched at a steak that lay upon the edge of the shelf, till at last down it fell.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Have you taken anything off this shelf, Hopkins?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I took leave of Mr. Peggotty, and Ham, and Mrs. Gummidge, and little Em'ly, that day; and passed the night at Peggotty's, in a little room in the roof (with the Crocodile Book on a shelf by the bed's head) which was to be always mine, Peggotty said, and should always be kept for me in exactly the same state.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

There upon a shelf was the row of formidable scrap-books and books of reference which many of our fellow-citizens would have been so glad to burn.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He waved his hand toward the book-shelves.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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