Shelve vs. Shelving — What's the Difference?

To place or arrange on a shelf

Shelves considered as a group.

To put aside as though on a shelf

Material for shelves.

(transitive) To place on a shelf.

An incline; a slope.

(transitive) To set aside; to quit or postpone.

Sloping steeply

To furnish with shelves.

Present participle of shelve

(slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.

Shelves collectively.

To have sex with.

The side-rails of a cart or waggon.

(intransitive) To slope; to incline; to form into shelves.

(rare) The bank of a river etc.

A rocky ledge or shelf.

Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.

To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.

The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.

To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.

The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.

To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.

Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.

Hold back to a later time;

Place on a shelve;