"shelf" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ʃɛlf/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shelf.wav Forms: shelves [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛlf Etymology: From Middle English schelfe, probably from Old English sċylfe, sċilfe (“shelf, ledge, deck of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, from Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), distantly related to sculpt, carve and shell. Cognate with Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), Old Norse skjalf (“bench”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|schelfe}} Middle English schelfe, {{inh|en|ang|sċielfe|sċylfe}} Old English sċylfe, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*skilfijā}} Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, {{der|en|gem-pro|*skelfō|t=shelf, ledge, cliff}} Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)kelH-|t=to cut}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), {{cog|nl|schelf|t=hay loft, haystack}} Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), {{cog|nds-de|Schelf|t=haystack}} German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), {{cog|non|skjalf|t=bench}} Old Norse skjalf (“bench”) Head templates: {{en-noun|shelves}} shelf (plural shelves)
  1. A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects. Categories (topical): Furniture Translations (structure): raft [masculine] (Albanian), رَفّ (raff) [masculine] (Arabic), رف (raff) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), رَفّ (raff) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), դարակ (darak) (Armenian), rəf (Azerbaijani), кәштә (kəştə) (Bashkir), apal (Basque), палі́ца (palíca) [feminine] (Belarusian), তাক (tak) (Bengali), ताखा (tākhā) (Bhojpuri), estajerenn [neuter] (Breton), по́лица (pólica) [feminine] (Bulgarian), етаже́рка (etažérka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), рафт (raft) [masculine] (Bulgarian), စင် (cang) (Burmese), prestatge [masculine] (Catalan), estant [masculine] (Catalan), lleixa [feminine] (Catalan), estante (Cebuano), терхи (terxi) (Chechen), 架仔 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), (alt: gaa³⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 架子 (jiàzi) (Chinese Mandarin), police [feminine] (Czech), hylde [common-gender] (Danish), schap [neuter] (Dutch), rek [neuter] (Dutch), plank [feminine] (Dutch), legplank [feminine] (Dutch), breto (Esperanto), riiul (Estonian), hill [feminine] (Faroese), vata (Fijian), hylly (Finnish), rayon [masculine] (French), étagère [feminine] (French), tablard [Switzerland, masculine] (French), scansìe [masculine] (Friulian), paramio [masculine] (Galician), paraño [masculine] (Galician), parañoa [feminine] (Galician), andel [masculine] (Galician), alzadeira [feminine] (Galician), cunqueiro [masculine] (Galician), vaseira [feminine] (Galician), prateleira [feminine] (Galician), estante [masculine] (Galician), თარო (taro) (Georgian), Regal [neuter] (German), ράφι (ráfi) [neuter] (Greek), અભરાઈ (abharāī) [feminine] (Gujarati), מַדָּף (madáf) [masculine] (Hebrew), तख़्ता (taxtā) (Hindi), polc (Hungarian), stelázsi (Hungarian), hilla [feminine] (Icelandic), rak (Indonesian), тархе (tarxe) (Ingush), seilf [feminine] (Irish), scaffale [masculine] (Italian), mensola [feminine] (Italian), ripiano [masculine] (Italian), palchetto [masculine] (Italian), (tana) (alt: たな) (Japanese), таг (tag) (Kalmyk), сөре (söre) (Kazakh), ធ្នើរ (tnəə) (Khmer), джадж (džadž) (Komi-Permyak), 선반 (seonban) (Korean), полка (polka) (Kyrgyz), текче (tekce) (Kyrgyz), ຫິ້ງ (hing) (Lao), ຊັ້ນ (san) (Lao), plaukts [masculine] (Latvian), rician [masculine] (Ligurian), motáláká [class-3, class-4] (Lingala), lentyna [feminine] (Lithuanian), regal [masculine] (Lower Sorbian), pólica [feminine] (Lower Sorbian), полица (polica) [feminine] (Macedonian), talantalana (Malagasy), rak (Malay), xkaffa [feminine] (Maltese), skelloo [feminine] (Manx), paenga (Maori), whata (Maori), stage (Middle English), тавиур (taviur) (Mongolian), stìglio [masculine] (Neapolitan), scanzia [feminine] (Neapolitan), ais [Guernsey, Jersey, masculine] (Norman), êtagéthe [Jersey, feminine] (Norman), hildu (Northern Sami), hylle [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hylle [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), laissa [feminine] (Occitan), desaabaan (Ojibwe), راف (raf) (Ottoman Turkish), رف (raf) (Persian), półka [feminine] (Polish), regał [masculine] (Polish), prateleira [feminine] (Portuguese), estante [feminine] (Portuguese), poliță [feminine] (Romanian), raft [neuter] (Romanian), по́лка (pólka) [feminine] (Russian), sgeilp [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), по̀лица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ра̏ф [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pòlica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), rȁf [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), scaffa [feminine] (Sicilian), polica [feminine] (Slovak), políca [feminine] (Slovene), estante [masculine] (Spanish), balda [feminine] (Spanish), anaquel [masculine] (Spanish), entrepaño [masculine] (Spanish), rafu [class-10, class-9] (Swahili), hylla [common-gender] (Swedish), раф (raf) (Tajik), அடுக்கம் (aṭukkam) (Tamil), அடுக்கு (aṭukku) (Tamil), киштә (kiştä) (Tatar), అర (ara) (Telugu), หิ้ง (hîng) (Thai), བང་ཁྲི (english: bang khri) (Tibetan), sergen (Turkish), raf (Turkish), tekje (Turkmen), ӝажы (džažy) (Udmurt), полка (polka) (Udmurt), поли́ця (polýcja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), طاق (tāq) (Urdu), جازا (jaza) (Uyghur), polka (Uzbek), tokcha (Uzbek), scansìa [feminine] (Venetan), giá sách (english: bookshelf) (Vietnamese), giá (Vietnamese), faht [neuter] (Vilamovian), faocht [neuter] (Vilamovian), axhale [feminine] (Walloon), axhlete [feminine] (Walloon), silff [feminine] (Welsh), silffoedd [feminine, plural] (Welsh), долбуур (dolbuur) (Yakut), פּאָליצע (politse) [feminine] (Yiddish), ishalufu [class-5, class-6] (Zulu)
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  2. The capacity of such an object Synonyms (capacity): shelfful Translations (capacity): schap [neuter] (Dutch), rek [neuter] (Dutch), étagère [feminine] (French), rayonnage [masculine] (French), paramio [masculine] (Galician), paraño [masculine] (Galician), parañoa [feminine] (Galician), andel [masculine] (Galician), alzadeira [feminine] (Galician), cunqueiro [masculine] (Galician), vaseira [feminine] (Galician), prateleira [feminine] (Galician), prateleira [feminine] (Portuguese), estante [feminine] (Portuguese), estantería [feminine] (Spanish), hylla [common-gender] (Swedish), håynaedje [masculine] (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-shelf-en-noun-swkSTosH Disambiguation of 'capacity': 5 84 7 3 Disambiguation of 'capacity': 5 84 7 3
  3. A projecting ledge that resembles such an object. Translations (projecting ledge resembling a shelf): schap [neuter] (Dutch), bink (Scots), sgeilp [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), ménsula [feminine] (Spanish), repisa [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-shelf-en-noun-G7KnHKZX Disambiguation of 'projecting ledge resembling a shelf': 10 4 80 7
  4. (computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-shelf-en-noun-59vu3whZ Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: bookshelf, chimney shelf, continental shelf, ice shelf, parcel shelf, sulfur shelf, sulphur shelf Related terms: shelve

Noun

IPA: /ʃɛlf/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shelf.wav Forms: shelves [plural], shelfs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛlf Etymology: Of obscure origin; evidently identical to Middle English shelp (“sandbar in a river”), but the sound shift is unexpected. Shelp might be from Old English scylp (“crag”) or Middle Dutch schelp-. Etymology templates: {{cog|enm|shelp|t=sandbar in a river}} Middle English shelp (“sandbar in a river”), {{cog|ang|scylp|t=crag}} Old English scylp (“crag”), {{cog|dum||schelp-}} Middle Dutch schelp- Head templates: {{en-noun|shelves|+}} shelf (plural shelves or shelfs)
  1. A reef, sandbar, or shoal. Synonyms: shelve [archaic] Derived forms: shelfy Translations (reef, shoal, sandbar): շելֆ (šelf) (Armenian), шелф (šelf) [masculine] (Bulgarian), recife [masculine] (Galician), pedrido [masculine] (Galician), brica [feminine] (Galician), ariño [masculine] (Galician), sirte [masculine] (Galician), baixío [masculine] (Galician), Schelf [masculine] (German), scairbh [feminine] (Irish), šelfs [masculine] (Latvian), szelf [masculine] (Polish), шельф (šelʹf) [masculine] (Russian), пличина [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), шелф [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pličina [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), šelf [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), arrecife [masculine] (Spanish), banco [masculine] (Spanish), cordón [masculine] (Spanish), bajío [masculine] (Spanish), bank [common-gender] (Swedish), sandbank [common-gender] (Swedish), kontinentalsockel [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-shelf-en-noun-kN3kkEcf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "beehive shelf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "bottom-shelf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "commercial off-the-shelf"
    },
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      "word": "ice-shelf"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "off-the-shelf"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "off the shelf"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "on the shelf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf bra"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf break"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf cloud"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf filler"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelfful"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf fungus"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf ice"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelfless"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf life"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelflike"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf list"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf-screamer"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf-stable"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf stacker"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf-talker"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf-wobbler"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelf-worn"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "shelvy"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "simian shelf"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "swing shelf"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "top-shelf"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "top shelf"
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        }
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      "text": "→ Czech: šelf"
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      "name": "der"
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          "support#Verb"
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          "object#Noun"
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          "code": "gl",
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          "sense": "structure",
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          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "თარო"
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          "tags": [
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          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "sense": "structure",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "hilla"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "id",
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          "word": "rak"
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          "word": "тархе"
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          "sense": "structure",
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            "feminine"
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          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "sense": "structure",
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            "masculine"
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "ធ្នើរ"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "word": "ຫິ້ງ"
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        {
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          "word": "ຊັ້ນ"
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        {
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        {
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          "tags": [
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        {
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          "word": "راف"
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          "word": "رف"
        },
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        },
        {
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            "masculine"
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "estante"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
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          "lang": "Romanian",
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          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "raft"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "pólka",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "по́лка"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "sgeilp"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "по̀лица"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          ],
          "word": "pòlica"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "structure",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "rȁf"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
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          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "sk",
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          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "polica"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "sl",
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          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "políca"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "dsb",
          "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "regal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "dsb",
          "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pólica"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "estante"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "balda"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anaquel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "entrepaño"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "structure",
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            "class-9"
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          "word": "rafu"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "lang": "Tatar",
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          "sense": "structure",
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          "lang": "Telugu",
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          "word": "అర"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "roman": "hîng",
          "sense": "structure",
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "english": "bang khri",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "sense": "structure",
          "word": "བང་ཁྲི"
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          "word": "sergen"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "polýcja",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "ur",
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          "roman": "tāq",
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "jaza",
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          "word": "جازا"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "sense": "structure",
          "word": "polka"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        {
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          "english": "bookshelf",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "structure",
          "word": "giá sách"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
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          "word": "giá"
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        {
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          "sense": "structure",
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        {
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          "code": "wym",
          "lang": "Vilamovian",
          "sense": "structure",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "faocht"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "axhale"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "axhlete"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "silff"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "silffoedd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "sah",
          "lang": "Yakut",
          "roman": "dolbuur",
          "sense": "structure",
          "word": "долбуур"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "politse",
          "sense": "structure",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "פּאָליצע"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "code": "zu",
          "lang": "Zulu",
          "sense": "structure",
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            "class-6"
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        {
          "text": "a shelf of videos",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      ],
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          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "schap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "rek"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "étagère"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "rayonnage"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "paramio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "paraño"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "andel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cunqueiro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "prateleira"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "prateleira"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "estante"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "estantería"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "capacity",
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          "word": "hylla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 7 3",
          "code": "wa",
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          "sense": "capacity",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        }
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          "projecting"
        ],
        [
          "ledge",
          "ledge"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "10 4 80 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "schap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 4 80 7",
          "code": "sco",
          "lang": "Scots",
          "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
          "word": "bink"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 4 80 7",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sgeilp"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 4 80 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ménsula"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 4 80 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "repisa"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
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            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Bradley Irby, Reengineering .NET:",
          "text": "This is where the Visual Studio Shelving function can help. A shelf is a place on the server in source control that is separate from the main code line so it will not affect other developers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Wouter de Kort, DevOps on the Microsoft Stack, page 114:",
          "text": "A shelveset allows you to store a changeset on the server without adding it to the current codebase and sharing it with team members directly. Each team member has his own “shelf,” where he can store as many shelvesets as he wants.",
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        }
      ],
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        "The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored."
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        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "repository",
          "repository"
        ],
        [
          "shelveset",
          "shelveset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ʃɛlf/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɛlf"
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  ],
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}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "shelp",
        "t": "sandbar in a river"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English shelp (“sandbar in a river”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "scylp",
        "t": "crag"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English scylp (“crag”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "",
        "3": "schelp-"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Of obscure origin; evidently identical to Middle English shelp (“sandbar in a river”), but the sound shift is unexpected. Shelp might be from Old English scylp (“crag”) or Middle Dutch schelp-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shelves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shelfs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "2": "+"
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "shelfy"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1582, Virgil, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC; republished as The First Four Books of the Æneid of Virgil, […], Edinburgh: [Edinburgh Printing Company], 1836, →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1594, Odet de la Noue, translated by Iosuah Silvester, The Profit of Imprisonment. A Paradox, VVritten in French by Odet de la Noue, Lord of Teligni, Being Prisoner in the Castle of Tournay., London: […] Peter Short, for Edward Blunt:",
          "text": "The Marchant that returnes from ſome far forrain lands, / Eſcaping dreadfull rocks and dangerous ſhelfs and ſands, / When as he ſees his ſhip her home-hauen enter ſafe, / Will he repine at God, and as offended chafe / For being brought to ſoone home to his natiue ſoile, / Free from all perills ſad that threaten ſaylor’s ſpoile?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1598, John Florio, “Scopuloso”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC, page 357, column 2:",
          "text": "Scopuloſo, full of rocks, ſhelfs, flats, or dangers by ſea.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1603, Richard Knolles, “The Life of Amurath, the Second of That Name, Sixt King of the Turkes, and the Great Establisher of Their Kingdome”, in The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 266:",
          "text": "The other part of the Turks which at the same time aſſaulted the citie by water, out of their gallies and ſmall ſhips, had as euill or rather worſe ſucceſſe: many of them were ſunke with great ſhot, and ſome burnt by the fire caſt from the wals, and ſo fired one another; and diuers of them in that ſudden feare, for avoiding of that preſent danger, ran a ground vpon the ſhelfs in the riuer, and ſo ſplit.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 210, page 861:",
          "text": "[T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza CLXXXI, page 209:",
          "text": "And all was stillness, save the sea-bird's cry, / And dolphin's leap, and little billow crost / By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret / Against the boundary it scarcely wet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], “Theatricals”, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 156:",
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      "word": "beehive shelf"
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      "word": "bottom-shelf"
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      "word": "commercial off-the-shelf"
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    {
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      "word": "rəf"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "kəştə",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "кәштә"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "apal"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "palíca",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "палі́ца"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "tak",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "তাক"
    },
    {
      "code": "bho",
      "lang": "Bhojpuri",
      "roman": "tākhā",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "ताखा"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "estajerenn"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pólica",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "по́лица"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "etažérka",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "етаже́рка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "raft",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "рафт"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "cang",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "စင်"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prestatge"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lleixa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "estante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ce",
      "lang": "Chechen",
      "roman": "terxi",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "терхи"
    },
    {
      "alt": "gaa³⁻²",
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "架"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "zh-min-nan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "架仔"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiàzi",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "架子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "police"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hylde"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "schap"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "rek"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "plank"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "legplank"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "breto"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "riiul"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hill"
    },
    {
      "code": "fj",
      "lang": "Fijian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "vata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "hylly"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rayon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "étagère"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "Switzerland",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tablard"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scansìe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paramio"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paraño"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parañoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "andel"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alzadeira"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cunqueiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vaseira"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prateleira"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "taro",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "თარო"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Regal"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ráfi",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ράφι"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "abharāī",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "અભરાઈ"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "madáf",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מַדָּף"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "taxtā",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "तख़्ता"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "polc"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "stelázsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "rak"
    },
    {
      "code": "inh",
      "lang": "Ingush",
      "roman": "tarxe",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "тархе"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "seilf"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scaffale"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mensola"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ripiano"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "palchetto"
    },
    {
      "alt": "たな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tana",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "棚"
    },
    {
      "code": "xal",
      "lang": "Kalmyk",
      "roman": "tag",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "таг"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "söre",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "сөре"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "tnəə",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "ធ្នើរ"
    },
    {
      "code": "koi",
      "lang": "Komi-Permyak",
      "roman": "džadž",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "джадж"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seonban",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "선반"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "polka",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "полка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "tekce",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "текче"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "hing",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "ຫິ້ງ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "san",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "ຊັ້ນ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plaukts"
    },
    {
      "code": "lij",
      "lang": "Ligurian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rician"
    },
    {
      "code": "ln",
      "lang": "Lingala",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "class-3",
        "class-4"
      ],
      "word": "motáláká"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lentyna"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "polica",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "полица"
    },
    {
      "code": "mg",
      "lang": "Malagasy",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "talantalana"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "rak"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "xkaffa"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skelloo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "paenga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "whata"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "stage"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "taviur",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "тавиур"
    },
    {
      "code": "nap",
      "lang": "Neapolitan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stìglio"
    },
    {
      "code": "nap",
      "lang": "Neapolitan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scanzia"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "Guernsey",
        "Jersey",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ais"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "Jersey",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "êtagéthe"
    },
    {
      "code": "se",
      "lang": "Northern Sami",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "hildu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hylle"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hylle"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "laissa"
    },
    {
      "code": "oj",
      "lang": "Ojibwe",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "desaabaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "raf",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "راف"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "raf",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "رف"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "półka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "regał"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prateleira"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "poliță"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "raft"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pólka",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "по́лка"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sgeilp"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "по̀лица"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ра̏ф"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pòlica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rȁf"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scaffa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "políca"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "regal"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pólica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balda"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anaquel"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "entrepaño"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "class-10",
        "class-9"
      ],
      "word": "rafu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hylla"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "raf",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "раф"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "aṭukkam",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "அடுக்கம்"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "aṭukku",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "அடுக்கு"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "roman": "kiştä",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "киштә"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ara",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "అర"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "hîng",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "หิ้ง"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "english": "bang khri",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "བང་ཁྲི"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "sergen"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "raf"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "tekje"
    },
    {
      "code": "udm",
      "lang": "Udmurt",
      "roman": "džažy",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "ӝажы"
    },
    {
      "code": "udm",
      "lang": "Udmurt",
      "roman": "polka",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "полка"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "polýcja",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "поли́ця"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "tāq",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "طاق"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "jaza",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "جازا"
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    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "polka"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "tokcha"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetan",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scansìa"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "english": "bookshelf",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "giá sách"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "giá"
    },
    {
      "code": "wym",
      "lang": "Vilamovian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "faht"
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    {
      "code": "wym",
      "lang": "Vilamovian",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "faocht"
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    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "axhale"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "axhlete"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "silff"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "silffoedd"
    },
    {
      "code": "sah",
      "lang": "Yakut",
      "roman": "dolbuur",
      "sense": "structure",
      "word": "долбуур"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "politse",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "פּאָליצע"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "structure",
      "tags": [
        "class-5",
        "class-6"
      ],
      "word": "ishalufu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "schap"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "rek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "étagère"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rayonnage"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paramio"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paraño"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parañoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "andel"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alzadeira"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cunqueiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vaseira"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prateleira"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prateleira"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estantería"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hylla"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "capacity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "håynaedje"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "schap"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
      "word": "bink"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sgeilp"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ménsula"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "projecting ledge resembling a shelf",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "repisa"
    }
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  "word": "shelf"
}

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    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Latvian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "en:Furniture"
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    }
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        "t": "sandbar in a river"
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      "name": "cog"
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  "etymology_text": "Of obscure origin; evidently identical to Middle English shelp (“sandbar in a river”), but the sound shift is unexpected. Shelp might be from Old English scylp (“crag”) or Middle Dutch schelp-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shelves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1582, Virgil, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC; republished as The First Four Books of the Æneid of Virgil, […], Edinburgh: [Edinburgh Printing Company], 1836, →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1594, Odet de la Noue, translated by Iosuah Silvester, The Profit of Imprisonment. A Paradox, VVritten in French by Odet de la Noue, Lord of Teligni, Being Prisoner in the Castle of Tournay., London: […] Peter Short, for Edward Blunt:",
          "text": "The Marchant that returnes from ſome far forrain lands, / Eſcaping dreadfull rocks and dangerous ſhelfs and ſands, / When as he ſees his ſhip her home-hauen enter ſafe, / Will he repine at God, and as offended chafe / For being brought to ſoone home to his natiue ſoile, / Free from all perills ſad that threaten ſaylor’s ſpoile?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1598, John Florio, “Scopuloso”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC, page 357, column 2:",
          "text": "Scopuloſo, full of rocks, ſhelfs, flats, or dangers by ſea.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1603, Richard Knolles, “The Life of Amurath, the Second of That Name, Sixt King of the Turkes, and the Great Establisher of Their Kingdome”, in The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 266:",
          "text": "The other part of the Turks which at the same time aſſaulted the citie by water, out of their gallies and ſmall ſhips, had as euill or rather worſe ſucceſſe: many of them were ſunke with great ſhot, and ſome burnt by the fire caſt from the wals, and ſo fired one another; and diuers of them in that ſudden feare, for avoiding of that preſent danger, ran a ground vpon the ſhelfs in the riuer, and ſo ſplit.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 210, page 861:",
          "text": "[T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza CLXXXI, page 209:",
          "text": "And all was stillness, save the sea-bird's cry, / And dolphin's leap, and little billow crost / By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret / Against the boundary it scarcely wet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], “Theatricals”, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 156:",
          "text": "But upon inquiry among the company, this plan was wrecked upon the ordinary shelve, to wit, the difficulty of finding performers who would consent to assume the lower characters of the drama.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
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      ],
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          "reef",
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          "sandbar",
          "sandbar"
        ],
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          "shoal",
          "shoal#Noun"
        ]
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      "ipa": "/ʃɛlf/"
    },
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    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
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      "word": "shelve"
    }
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "šelf",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "word": "շելֆ"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "šelf",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "шелф"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "recife"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pedrido"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brica"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ariño"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sirte"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "baixío"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schelf"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scairbh"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "šelfs"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "szelf"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "šelʹf",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "шельф"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пличина"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "шелф"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pličina"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "šelf"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arrecife"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "banco"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cordón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bajío"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bank"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sandbank"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "reef, shoal, sandbar",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kontinentalsockel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shelf"
}

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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": kè-á vs. zh-min-nan",
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