Shelf

Bookshelves in the University of Toronto Library

Shelf is a detail of furniture for storing items.

The same name is applied to various things that resemble a shelf in form or function:
* Continental shelf
* Ice shelf
** Ross Ice Shelf
** Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
* Shelf cloud - a meteorological phenomenon
* The Shelf (an user interface feature of NeXTSTEP)

See also

* Dr Eliot's Five Foot Shelf â†' Harvard Classics
* Shelf life
* Shelf registration
* Sulphur shelf ( a mushroom)
* Off the shelf
* Top shelf
* Shelf, West Yorkshire, a village in England