shelving

== English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, shelve +‎ -ing. === Adjective === shelving (comparative more shelving, superlative most shelving) Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright). Synonyms: inclining, pitched, tilted 1858, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter 3, p. 87,[3] her cheeks, which, on Whitsunday, loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work, were, on Trinity Sunday, seen reposing in distinct red outline on her shelving bust, like the sun on a fog-bank ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === shelving present participle and gerund of shelve === Noun === shelving (countable and uncountable, plural shelvings) Shelves collectively. (chiefly in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon. (now rare) A sloping surface. Synonyms: declivity, slope ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Related terms === shelfing