lay on a shelve
1Shelve — Shelve, v. t. 1. To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library. [1913 Webster] 2. 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… …
2shelve — [shelv] vi. [< SHELF] shelved, shelving to incline or slope gradually vt. [< pl. of SHELF] 1. to equip with shelves 2. to put on a shelf or shelves 3 …
3lay aside — I verb abandon, continue, defer, delay, discard, disclaim, discount, dismiss, disregard, drop, exclude, forestall, forgo, hold, hold up, ignore, isolate, keep, lay by, lay in a stock, pass over, pick out, postpone, preserve, pretermit, put aside …
4shelve — (v.) 1590s, to overhang, back formation from shelves, plural of SHELF (Cf. shelf). Meaning put on a shelf first recorded 1650s; metaphoric sense of lay aside, dismiss is from 1812. Meaning to slope gradually (1610s) is from M.E. shelven to slope …
5shelve — [v] defer, postpone delay, dismiss, drop, freeze*, give up, hang up, hold, hold off, hold over, hold up, lay aside, mothball*, pigeonhole*, prolong, prorogue, put aside, put off, put on back burner*, put on hold, put on ice*, scrub*, sideline,… …
6lay — I v 1. put, place, set, rest, Inf. stick, leave, park, plant; set down, seat, settle; incline, lean. 2. drop, floor, lay low, prostrate; fell, knock or cut or strike down, sink. 3. lodge, submit, present, prefer, bring forward. 4. repose, impute …
7lay by — Synonyms and related words: abandon, adjourn, aestivate, arrange for, assign, cede, conserve, continue, decree, defer, define, delay, drag out, extend, forearm, give up, hand over, hang fire, hang up, have nothing on, head to wind, hibernate,… …
8lay away — Synonyms and related words: bank, bundle away, cache, coffer, delay, deposit, entomb, file, hutch, inhume, inter, lay aside, lay by, lay down, lay in, lay in store, lay up, lodge, pack away, pigeonhole, plant, postpone, push aside, put aside, put …
9lay aside — Synonyms and related words: abandon, adjourn, bolt, brush aside, brush off, carry away, carry off, cart away, cast, chuck, continue, cordon, cordon off, cull out, defer, delay, delocalize, dislodge, dismiss, displace, ditch, divide, drag out,… …
10lay over — Synonyms and related words: adjourn, apply to, blanket, block, canopy, cloak, clothe, cloud, continue, cope, cover, cover up, cowl, curtain, defer, delay, drag out, eclipse, extend, film, hang fire, hang up, hold off, hold over, hold up, hood,… …