Shelve vs Scrap - What's the difference?
shelve | scrap |
to place on a shelf
to store, set aside, quit, or halt
To furnish with shelves.
(Wales, slang) to have sex with
A rocky ledge or shelf.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.181:
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
* De Quincey
(usually, in the plural) Leftover food.
Discarded material (especially metal), junk.
(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
To discard.
(of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
To dispose of at a scrapyard.
To make into scrap.
to fight
In transitive terms the difference between shelve and scrap
is that shelve is to store, set aside, quit, or halt while scrap is to make into scrap.shelve
English
Verb
(shelv)- The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
- They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.
- to shelve a closet or a library
Synonyms
* (set aside) pigeonhole, tableNoun
(en noun)- And all was stillness, save the sea-bird's cry, / And dolphin's leap, and little billow crossed / By some low rock or shelve , that made it fret / Against the boundary it scarcely wet.
Anagrams
*scrap
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) scrappe, from (etyl) skrap, fromNoun
(en noun)- I have no materials — not a scrap .
- I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
- Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.
- That car isn't good for anything but scrap .
- pork scraps