What's the difference between cubby and shelf?

Cubby


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Cubbyhole

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ford's motorsport supremo Walter Hayes had fallen into conversation with the film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, with the result that AMR suddenly found itself building a handful of Ford Zephyr-engined cars for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
  • (2) He dazzled each of them with a string of Hollywood names, name-dropping the likes of Oliver Reed, Julie Christie and Aaron Spelling to reel in the wannabe stars, while telling one she had to sleep with Cubby Broccoli to land a Bond role and another she should have sex with David Bowie to land a part in the film Labyrinth, in which he starred.
  • (3) At San Francisco’s first fully automated restaurant, meals appear in little glass cubbies, just 90 seconds after customers order and pay on wall-mounted iPads.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Computerized cubbies at Eatsa, San Francisco.
  • (5) The company admits it employs a small kitchen staff, and one employee is present in the front of the house, answering questions about how to order and dodging questions about what’s going on behind the wall of magic cubbies.
  • (6) The moment before the meal appears, the see-through display screen that fronts the cubbies goes black for the few seconds when you might catch sight of the hand that feeds you.

Shelf


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
  • (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
  • (v. i.) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
  • (v. i.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
  • (2) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
  • (3) The development of the hydrogelic occlusive device called the P-block is described including developmental steps of the design of the device as well as the experience gained concerning the hydrogel of the device, shelf life, animal and human toxicology, insertion techniques, analgesia, check-up for retention in situ, actual efficacy of the method, mode of action of the device, complication rates, patient acceptance, continuation rates, possible reversibility and future perspectives of the method.
  • (4) Formulation often has a dramatic effect on degradation of proteins during the freeze-drying process as well as impacting on the "shelf-life" stability of the freeze-dried product.
  • (5) The determination of potency or shelf life, impurity limit testing, and study of reaction mechanisms are considered as different aspects of drug stability.
  • (6) Patterns of HA distribution in anterior, posterior and presumptive soft palate were examined in the secondary palatal shelves of CD-1 mouse fetuses that were 30, 24 and 18 h prior to, and at the time of, shelf reorientation.
  • (7) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
  • (8) The absence of membrane proteins and chemical stability of SFH and phospholipids promises long shelf-life.
  • (9) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
  • (10) Midline epithelial cells cease DNA synthesis 24-36 h before shelf elevation and contact, become active in the synthesis of cell surface glycoproteins, and subsequently manifest morphological signs of necrosis.
  • (11) It has been suggested that head posture changes, tongue movements and jaw opening reflexes are required to enable palatal shelf elevation to occur in normal cranio-facial development.
  • (12) Allografts are often freeze dried to increase shelf storage time and sterilized with ethylene oxide.
  • (13) The shelf procedure provides a buttress of bone for later reconstructive surgery such as cup or total hip arthroplasty.
  • (14) When tested in another task (recovering food pellets from a horizontal shelf accessible through a narrow slit below the ceiling of the test box) same rats displayed identical (45%) and opposite (15%) preference or were ambidextrous (40%).
  • (15) In one case this was a dense shelf-like mass of echoes extending downward from the basal portion of the interventricular septum toward the mid-portion of the anterior mitral leaflet with corresponding systolic anterior motion of the mitral leaflet.
  • (16) Eight brands of composite resin, including paste-paste, powder-liquid and light-activated systems, as well as three glass ionomer cements were evaluated over a period of twelve months with respect to shelf-life and suitability for use in a tropical environment.
  • (17) They know that you're just going to buy everything from Amazon now, so they've all cut their losses and stacked every shelf with a trillion different 50 Shades Of Grey knock-offs called things like Disciplined With Buttplugs and 20 Carat Strumpet.
  • (18) The shelf life of the solid phase presensitized with monoclonal antibodies was 4 mth at -15 degrees C. DEN prototype viruses were still identified after storage at -15 degrees C for 1 yr or at room temperature for 1 mth.
  • (19) There are now standard off-the-shelf products that provide the kind of digital production tools that simply didn't exist five years ago.
  • (20) It is concluded that the shelf life of iced whole cod can be predicted using this model but not that of vacuum-packed fillets because of the greater variability of bacterial activity in packaged fish.

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