Shelf used in a sentence

Shelf in a sentence as a noun

You count up shelf #1, I count up shelf #2. That's map.

Most artist have a short shelf life. It's not until they are broke that they realize how they have been screwed.

- Which vendors have it on the shelf? - Which vendors do we have blanket purchase orders with?

My winter scarf, boots, hat and gloves are also in the closet, but in a box on a shelf. My system may not be the same as yours, but it works for me.

Y'know, healthiest potato chips on the shelf. There is bread, there is soybean oil mayonnaise.

Most of what makes an application can be taken of the shelf, and modified to fit. For consumer apps, design is also where a lot of work goes in to.

It's not shelf stable. its performance is dependent on altitude.

I wouldn't touch one of those meters with a 20 foot long rubber pole and I wouldn't want them on the shelf next to a proper meter. SparkFun are wrong as are probably most of the people cheering for the demise of Fluke here.

Cheese is too expensive and you can't make cheese from regular organic off-the-shelf homogenized ultra-pasteurized milk. It just doesn't set when you add the rennet.

Michael Dell used to stock shelves in his youth, should newspapers run headlines like 'shelf stocker taking computer manufacturer private in 25B leveraged buyout'? Please.

Also, 75% of children who are abducted and murdered are killed within the first three hours, so the shelf life of these alerts is incredibly small. Even smaller for people who are sitting at the computer when they see the alert, not driving on a freeway.

You need an algorithm to process some specific data faster than any generic off-the-shelf algorithm can. Something like this: [1].

What's worse is many ingredients have a shelf life of mere days. Every product is hand made to a customer's specifications and delivered in real-time with immediate feedback.

With a makerbot, a raspberry Pi, an arduino and a shelf full of components you're prety much ready to go and can hammer together a working prototype in no time. If you feel cheap you can buy a nice box for your arduino and call it a finished product.

Any games I want to play it still runs very well, and it still feels very fast to me even compared to modern off-the-shelf systems. When my friends ask for laptop-buying advice I tell them if they like the keyboard and screen, then its just plain hard to be disappointed with anything new.

There are a lot of unique opportunities for startups that are willing to use off the shelf technology and package it in unique ways. Provided, of course, you don't have any ethical qualms about selling technology that might be used for good or evil.

I think the pubsub system and their library-shelf system were two out of the grand total of three things Amazon does better than google. I guess you could make an argument that their bias for launching early and iterating like mad is also something they do well, but you can argue it either way.

I have books and records from my youth that sit on my shelf and are there for me any time I want to revisit them. Heck, I even have software from back then because I never got rid of my Apple II. Of course, there are emulators, and Spotify probably has 60%-70% of the records that are in my collection, and I can find A Wrinkle in Time on the Kindle.

Some industries go in the extreme other direction - the local car industry got its stock-on-shelf lifetime down to 48 minutes from part arriving to part being screwed into car. Similarly, retail markup is generally 20-50% of the final cost.

I've answered in more detail below, but the short version is simple: no off-the-shelf converter was remotely sufficient for our needs, so we had to write lots of custom software, and writing custom software is hard.

But it's increasingly difficult to get working vulcanizing fluid for patching after the economy collapses; that **** doesn't have an indefinite shelf life. Ultimately you need to put together some kind of chemistry lab, using chemicals of unknown quality, in order to renew your supply of bike patch kits.

"Over the years, the identity of the scientist who began the experiment was forgotten, and the experiment lay unattended on a shelf where it continued to shed drops uninterrupted while gathering layers of dust. Physicists at Trinity College recently began to monitor the experiment again.

At best, you keep complexity low, and it's another example of a small custom DB for a case where you don't need a fancy off-the-shelf DB. Maybe it's the perfect solution for your app, but it's still a database." Memory images," as a completely separate matter, are an abstraction that saves you some of the work of making a DB. Just as S-expressions can save you from defining a data model format, and files can save you from a custom key-value store, memory images as in Smalltalk could save you from having to deal with persistence.