shelving

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If a pile of books is impeding entry into the bathroom, then by all means chuck some books or put up more shelving.

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Quick take

Shelves collectively.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Shelves collectively.

adjective

Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).

noun

(now rare) A sloping surface.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shelving.

noun

Shelves collectively.

adjective

Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).

noun

(now rare) A sloping surface.

Example sentences

If a pile of books is impeding entry into the bathroom, then by all means chuck some books or put up more shelving.

There are even Data Centers (MacMini Colo) that are dedicated to shelving Mac Mini's for such a purpose.

My dad bought himself a table saw and used it to build a workbench, then a shelving unit.

It's great that they put 4,000 manuscripts online, but the library has tens of kilometers of shelving.

Even in less crowded places, there's usually a practical need for extra shelving, hanging space, etc.

Are you volunteering to transition Sun III's physical files cabinets, storage boxes, warehouse shelving?

All it needs is a big flat floor with some bar code stickers, a supply of cheap shelving units, and the robots.

In this way goodwill/salvation army could be seen as a place where you can rent items indefinitely and just pay for the shelving space.

I prefer to use shelving / stashing to do this sort of stuff.

There are also tens of millions of people who would gladly abandon their minimum wage jobs scrubbing toilets, flipping burgers, driving trucks and shelving inventory for something better.

No more walking around in Amazon's newer warehouses; the pickers stand in one place as shelving units of products are brought to them by hundreds of mobile robots.

I even got started working on an Eclipse plugin for it, which I ended up shelving after like 3 weeks when I lost interest.

Quote examples

These days, with the use of shelving, there are integrations with CI tools such as Jenkins which provide "pre-flight" builds before checkin - thus before your changes are world visible.