Shelf vs Shilf - What's the difference?
shelf | shilf |
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.
(obsolete) straw
* 1849 , The Ecclesiologist: Volume 9 (page 288)
As nouns the difference between shelf and shilf
is that shelf is a flat, rigid, rectangular structure, fixed at right angles to a wall, and used to support, store or display objects while shilf is straw.shelf
English
(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 lifeshilf
English
Noun
(-)- Two loads of clay, and one load of coarse shilf mixed and wetted, and trodden together to lump
