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"text": "to shelve a closet or a library",
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"To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves."
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"word": "varustaa hyllyin"
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"text": "The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.",
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"To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf."
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
"word": "слагам на рафт"
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
"word": "sætte på hylden"
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
"word": "archiviare"
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
"word": "odkładać na półkę"
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
"word": "arquivar"
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"sense": "to place (something) on a shelf",
"word": "daka"
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"ref": "2002 June 4, Anthony Hodges, “Drugs Seized by Customs”, in alt.anagrams (Usenet)",
"text": "I love shelving ecstasy!",
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{
"ref": "2011 June 19, Frances Morton, quoting Emma, “School daze”, in Shayne Currie, editor, The Herald on Sunday, Auckland: New Zealand Media and Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-20",
"text": "I had a funny conversation with my dad last night about shelving. It's when you shelve a pill up your bum. It was a lovely dinner conversation. […] My parents were like, in our generation we didn't snort pills, we used to drop them because it's so bad to snort. I was like, Yeah, what about shelving? They were like What? I was, Oh no, I thought you'd know.",
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{
"ref": "2013 February 22, Edward J. Benavidez, “Effects of Ecstasy”, in Getting High: The Effects of Drugs, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 65",
"text": "Some people use Ecstasy using a method known as \"shafting\" or \"shelving\" which involves inserting a pill or tablet into the anus.",
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"ref": "2016, “Pharmacology and Pathophysiology”, in John B. Saunders [et al.], editors, Addiction Medicine (Oxford Specialist Handbooks), 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, page 44",
"text": "Amphetamines and ATS can be smoked, snorted, injected, or taken orallym, including rubbing on gums. Occasionally, they are taken anally (‘shelving’).",
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"To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion."
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"(figurative) To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.",
"(slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion."
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"To have sex with (someone)."
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"(Wales, slang) To have sex with (someone)."
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"text": "(postpone):"
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"text": "(entirely cease):"
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"text": "They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.",
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"ref": "1950 April, “The Mountain Section of the Bergen-Oslo Railway”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 223",
"text": "Among the schemes that have been shelved is one for the electrification of the railway between Bergen and Oslo. [Electrification was completed in 1964.]",
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"ref": "1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 636",
"text": "The arrival of the new Birmingham units on the West Highland line suggests that a scheme to use 16 of the next batch of English Electric Type 4s previously allotted to the Scottish Region, Nos. D357–D384, on the West Highland and Callander-Oban lines has been shelved.",
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"ref": "2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, “The Inner World of Grief”, in On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published August 2014, page 102",
"text": "When we shelve our pain, it doesn't go away. Rather, it festers in a myriad of ways. We need to undersand that strength and grief fit together. We must be strong to handle grief, and in the end, grief brings out strengths we never knew we had.",
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"(figurative) To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.",
"To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.)."
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"word": "mothball#Verb"
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{
"word": "pigeonhole#Verb"
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{
"word": "table#Verb"
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{
"word": "halt#Verb"
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{
"word": "quit"
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{
"word": "stop#Verb"
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"To remove (someone) from active service."
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"(figurative) To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.",
"(also reflexive) To remove (someone) from active service."
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"word": "poistaa aktiivipalveluksesta"
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang."
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"_dis1": "5 10 40 41 1 1 1",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ānfàng",
"sense": "to place (something) in a certain location",
"word": "安放"
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"sense": "to place (something) in a certain location",
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"sense": "to place (something) in a certain location",
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"sense": "to place (something) in a certain location",
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"sense": "to place (something) in a certain location",
"word": "גָּנַז"
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"text": "The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things.",
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"ref": "1864, John Campbell Shairp, “Canto III. The Island.”, in Kilmahoe: A Highland Pastoral: With Other Poems, London, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 23",
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