What's the difference between ledge and shelf?

Ledge


Definition:

  • (n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
  • (n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  • (n.) A layer or stratum.
  • (n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  • (n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This bony strut reduces inferomedial displacement of the muscle cone and provides a medial supporting "ledge" in cases requiring late orbital reconstruction.
  • (2) The continuous ledge will be covered with a cast continuous bar, intended to restore the lingual crown morphology.
  • (3) The number of two-year sojourns in a hospital and other data are reported on the basis of an evaluation of the signature ledges of the clinical histories in the district Dresden.
  • (4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
  • (5) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.
  • (6) All the determinants for ledging were not identified with this study, and further research is indicated.
  • (7) In the outer and middle layers of the spiny deposits, the Ca, P, and Mg concentrations were all significantly higher than those of the ledge-type deposits.
  • (8) Calculus components of the ledge-type deposits contained crystal types quite similar to sandy grain-shaped hydroxyapatite (HAP), plate-shaped octacalcium phosphate (OCP), and hexahedral Mg-containing whitlockite (WHT).
  • (9) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
  • (10) Ridge POAMES occurred most frequently, followed by combined, ledge and the nodular exostose types.
  • (11) The edges of the breaks appear clinically as glassy ridges or ledges and are also called Haab's lines.
  • (12) 15 had a significantly higher incidence of ledging.
  • (13) Hypoplasia of the labial enamel of 15 out of 19 teeth from sheep killed after recovery from the infection was classified according to the extent and depth as pits, grooves or larger areas of missing enamel with ledge-formation cervically.
  • (14) Immature spores in the strain studied had a ledge which disappeared during maturation.
  • (15) Shaping effectiveness of the tested files was qualitatively evaluated in terms of respect for conservation of the apical constriction and the presence or absence of ledging, specially in the apical third of the root canals.
  • (16) By following the continental ledge in search of sardines, sardinella, and mackerel, it hopes to catch 3,000 tonnes of fish in a four- to six-week voyage before it offloads them, possibly in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
  • (17) This preliminary study suggests that such a wheelchair feature might improve the safety of wheelchairs in conditions involving inadvertent loss of caster support, as when they drop off a stair or ledge.
  • (18) A complicated system of low lying slanting, diagonal mucosal ledges forms between the tall longitudinal folds.
  • (19) Ten of the 107 had small enamel fractures, primarily occurring on cingulum ledges.
  • (20) Each of the nine objects was placed on a ledge inside a dummy television screen next to the video screen, the food items alternating with the neutral objects, and 20 female patients with anorexia nervosa and 20 female controls matched for age were asked to adjust the size of the video recording to that of the real object.

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.