flat+shelf

  • 21shelf — /ʃelf/ noun a horizontal flat surface attached to a wall or in a cupboard on which items for sale are displayed ● The shelves in the supermarket were full of items before the Christmas rush …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 22To lay on the shelf — Shelf Shelf, n.; pl. {Shelves}. [OE. shelfe, schelfe, AS. scylfe; akin to G. schelfe, Icel. skj[=a]lf. In senses 2 & 3, perhaps a different word (cf. {Shelve}, v. i.).] 1. (Arch.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a… …

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  • 23Ross Ice Shelf — The Ross Ice Shelf (coord|81|30|S|175|00|W|) is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly 487 000 km², and about 800 km across: about the size of France [http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about antarctica/teacher… …

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  • 24North West Shelf Venture — leases and infrastructure The North West Shelf Venture, situated in the north west of Western Australia, is Australia s largest resource development project. It involves the extraction of petroleum (mostly natural gas and condensate) at offshore… …

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  • 25Poker Flat Research Range — The Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR) is a launch facility and rocket range for sounding rockets in the U.S. state of Alaska, owned and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute since 1968. The world s largest land …

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  • 26ice shelf — thick ice, fairly flat, along polar coasts, fastened to the shore and often reaching the bottom although the seaward end floats free, sometimes over deep water. Icebergs break off this shelf …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 27ledge — noun (C) 1 a narrow flat surface of rock that is parallel to the ground 2 a narrow flat shelf or surface, fixed to a wall: window ledge (=narrow shelf below a window) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 28North Island (Houtman Abrolhos) — North Island Aerial photograph of the southern half of North Island, looking west …

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  • 29ledge — I. /lɛdʒ / (say lej) noun 1. any relatively narrow, horizontal projecting part, or any part affording a horizontal shelf like surface. 2. a more or less flat shelf of rock protruding from a cliff or slope. 3. a reef, ridge, or line of rocks in… …

  • 30shallowness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of depth, superficiality Nouns 1. shallowness, shoalness, flatness; superficiality; inanity, folly; banality, insipidity, dullness, vapidity; ignorance; triviality, frivolity. See unimportance. 2.… …

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