Shelf vs Bump - What's the difference?
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A flat, rigid, rectangular structure, fixed at right angles to a wall, and used to support, store or display objects.
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
The capacity of such an object; as, a shelf of videos.
A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
A reef, shoal or sandbar.
A light blow or jolting collision.
The sound of such a collision.
A protuberance on a level surface.
A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
* Shakespeare
One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind.
(rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
(Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
(slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
A coarse cotton fabric.
A training match for a fighting dog.
To knock against or run into with a jolt.
To move up or down by a step.
(Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
(chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
* 1916 , Albert Prescott Mathews, Physiological chemistry
To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
* 2005 , Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
To move the time of a scheduled event.
* 2010 , Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual , p. 332:
(archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
* Dryden
Shelf is a related term of bump.
As a noun shelf
is a flat, rigid, rectangular structure, fixed at right angles to a wall, and used to support, store or display objects.As a proper noun bump is
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(wikipedia shelf)Noun
(shelves)- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
Synonyms
* (capacity) shelffulDerived terms
* bookshelf * continental shelf * off the shelf * on the shelf * shelfful * shelvy * shelf lifebump
English
Noun
(en noun)- It had upon its brow / A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.
- the bump''' of veneration; the '''bump of acquisitiveness
- US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.
Derived terms
* bump and grind * bump in the road * bumpity * bumpy * fist bump * razor bump * speed bump * things that go bump in the nightVerb
- I bumped the font size up to make my document easier to read.
- Heat until the liquid bumps , then reduce the heat and continue the boiling for 1½ hours.
- Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years'...
- A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.
- as a bittern bumps within a reed