An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SHELVING
Adjective
shelving (comparative more shelving, superlative most shelving)
sloping steeply
Verb
shelving
present participle of shelve
Noun
shelving (countable and uncountable, plural shelvings)
Shelves collectively.
(chiefly, in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
(rare) The bank of a river etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Shelv"ing, a.
Definition: Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore. Shak. "Shelving arches." Addison.
Shelv"ing, n.
1. The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.
2. The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.
3. Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.
SHELVE
Shelve, v. t.
1. To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
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 a claim.
Shelve, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shelved; p. pr. & vb. n. Shelving.] Etym: [Perhapss originally from the same source as shallow, but influenced by shelf a ledge, a platform.]
Definition: To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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