What's the difference between drawer and shelf?

Drawer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, draws
  • (n.) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.
  • (n.) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.
  • (n.) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
  • (n.) That which is drawn
  • (n.) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.
  • (n.) An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
  • (2) To evaluate this injury the following methods of taking X-ray pictures are indispensable, namely, stress inversion, stress anterior drawer, and stress adduction radiography.
  • (3) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
  • (4) Rather like Arthur Atkinson, then, she surely needs her Chester Drawers.
  • (5) He hasn't nicked stuff from you, been sick in your sock drawer, sworn at your mother or made a pass at your girlfriend.
  • (6) At follow-up some laxity was detected by the anterior drawer test and Lachman test (20 degrees).
  • (7) Recently, more attention has been paid to the value of the anterior drawer test of the ankle.
  • (8) Furnished flats came with wartime utility furniture, cheap government-designed beds and wardrobes and chests of drawers that no one else wanted.
  • (9) In IMC of the hamstrings, the posterior drawer force was given at the every flexion angle.
  • (10) Surely a term that can be used to mean the 7% top drawer (minus the aristos) and at the same time the 60% or so who work in white-collar jobs and professions is no longer fit for purpose.
  • (11) It was shown that accurate diagnosis could be made by Lachman test rather than by conventional anterior drawer test in dealing with fresh injury, but with old ones, Lachman test didn't show the advantages.
  • (12) Anterior tibial displacement was objectively evaluated at both followups by means of the anterior drawer test, with 20 degrees to 30 degrees and 90 degrees of knee flexion, in a testing device.
  • (13) In addition, a drawer sign was present in the stifle of 14 animals 31 days after surgery.
  • (14) These drawers then were checked again to determine the number and type of checking errors committed by technicians and pharmacists.
  • (15) The anteromedial band is the primary check against anterior drawer.
  • (16) When it comes to laying in stores for the baby's arrival, we're no longer obliged to rely on the advice of our own parents, which tends to fall into one of two unhelpful camps: "We put you to sleep in a bottom drawer and it never did you any harm"; or "what do you mean, you haven't bought a baby hairbrush?"
  • (17) The Lachman, anterior drawer, posterior drawer, and pivot-shift tests were negative in all knees.
  • (18) For a farmer in touch with nature or a drawer sketching a tree, "there's a dignity and a purpose to life, which you don't get from working in a call centre or being on television."
  • (19) Both powerlifters and weightlifters were significantly tighter than controls on the quadriceps active drawer at 90 degrees of knee flexion.
  • (20) Eighty-four patients who underwent ACL reconstruction with fresh-frozen allogeneic tendon were reviewed and evaluated with subjective and functional rating scales, physical examinations, instrumented anterior drawer tests, isokinetic testing, and arthroscopy.

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.