shelving

n. 一组搁板, 搁板材料, 倾斜, 倾斜度, 斜坡

词形变化

shelvings 复数 shelvings more shelving 比较级 most shelving 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Shelves collectively.

    可数 不可数

    a shelving unit

    There is ample shelving in the basement.

  2. 2.

    A sloping surface.

    古体 可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The side-rails of a cart or waggon.

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v.
  1. 1.

    present participle and gerund of shelve

adj.
  1. 1.

    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

词源

By surface analysis, shelve + -ing.

来源：wiktionary