What does shelving mean?
Shelving means Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright)..
1858, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter 3, p. 87, 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
Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so shelving that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life.
We still continued winding round Skiddaw, the sides of which are every where rather shelving, than steep.
The town of Abda is built upon the top and down the steeply shelving face of an isolated rocky spur,
[…] a gently shelving plain led to a huge forest through which there were tracks that could safely be followed.
a shelving unit
There is ample shelving in the basement.
So, creaking and creaking, and the shelvins skirling under the weight of their load, they passed that danger point, the carts plodded into motion again […]
Use shelving when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shelving means Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright)..
Common synonyms include inclining, pitched, tilted, declivity.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1858, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter 3, p. 87, 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
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