What's the difference between selves and shelves?

Selves


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Self
  • (n.) pl. of Self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The implications of qualitative and quantitative differences among love, sex and commitment are discussed in relation to (1) the concept of "multiple selves," (2) "individual variations in threshold levels," and (3) the misuse of "ideal types."
  • (2) AGIs will indeed be capable of self-awareness – but that is because they will be General: they will be capable of awareness of every kind of deep and subtle thing, including their own selves.
  • (3) "Owning" the ageing process instead of fighting it makes it easier to value our older selves, and reclaim – both individually and together – a sense of the lifecycle.
  • (4) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
  • (5) From Shakespeare to Hemingway, the Jew has been assigned a special place in the psyche of the authors here described, reflecting the ongoing cultural bias as it became internalized in the selves of the authors quoted.
  • (6) We used to dream about doing this in our lifetimes, so our 19-year-old selves would probably have been very relieved that we got here.” He adds, reflectively: “It’s true though, I don’t have much of a normal life.
  • (7) But we need to rediscover our inner transcendental selves in everyday life too.
  • (8) Was it just that we were all older and that we were sentimentally loyal to our younger selves, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?
  • (9) A basic assumption of this article is that there exist other, non-Western varieties of selves and human subjectivities that provide essential information for understanding human psychological and social behavior.
  • (10) Specifically, we examined the consequences of a chronic conflict between two valued selves.
  • (11) Friends were equally keen to leave but too frightened to apply thanks to the previous decade's frequent reversals: "They say one thing, you do it, then they say, 'You guys are going to jail because you have revealed your true selves.'"
  • (12) Other countries have announced similar or deeper emissions cuts, but none have committed them selves by law.
  • (13) Other analysis showed that symptom expectations for "girls in general" were more severe than for selves, though these 2 sets of responses were highly correlated.
  • (14) How their play becomes criminalized and how they’re socialized to become black adults who internalize that their very breathing selves are criminal.
  • (15) We can forgive much about our younger selves, but that question in particular does seem daft, given that the man before me is about to star in probably the year's greatest blockbuster, The Hobbit , reprising – or is "preprising" yet a word?
  • (16) Inpatients with nonbipolar psychotic major depression (N = 46) had significantly lower Hamilton Rating Scale scores at discharge and a significantly greater number of weeks back to their "normal selves" during a 6-month follow-up than did patients with nonpsychotic major depression (N = 159).
  • (17) Our teenage selves who shopped, if we could, at Young Jaeger 40 years ago were telling us something.
  • (18) A week that began with faith in David Moyes disappearing at an alarming rate has ended with United looking more like their old selves, the inclusion of Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa allowing them to play with a panache that has rarely been evident this season.
  • (19) The patient with cystoïd macular oedema was treated by Hyperbar oxygenotherapy, basing one of selves on the theory ischemia.
  • (20) At one level, this novel is indeed - as Rushdie defensively claimed - "about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay".

Shelves


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Shelf

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
  • (2) At 0 hours only the hard palate in the experimental group had elevated, but at 2 and 4 hours almost half this group showed elevation of the soft palate as well, and, in addition, contact had been made between the elevated shelves.
  • (3) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
  • (4) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (5) Aldi is able to order this selection, more than 90% of which is own-label products, through bulk-buying, while dictating the package size in order to fit the maximum amount of goods on its shelves and lorries in order to keep costs low.
  • (6) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
  • (7) In untreated embryos, horizontalization and fusion of the palatal shelves occurred earlier in C57BL than in SWV embryos, but fusion of the primary palate with the secondary palate occurred later.
  • (8) Foodmakers will also burble on about their “philosophy” or their “mission” or their “strong core values” or the “adventure” or “journey” they have been on in order to get their products triumphantly shelved in Waitrose .
  • (9) They take the same appearance in vivo and in vitro: cell agglutination, nuclear hypertrophy, exfoliation and release of cellular material, formation of uniting bridges across the gap between the shelves.
  • (10) Subsequently, unlike controls (in which the palatal shelves undergo reorientation and fusion), the BrdU-treated shelves remained vertical until term.
  • (11) With so many superfoods jostling for attention in the media and on supermarket shelves, it’s not always easy to separate the fad from the genuinely healthy.
  • (12) The warning of further food prices came as some British supermarkets said they were struggling to keep shelves stocked with fresh produce and the National Farmers Union (NFU) reported that UK wheat yields have been the lowest since the late 1980s as a result of abnormal rain fall.
  • (13) Multiple jobseekers can work in one store at the same time, cleaning or stacking shelves and competing against each other for a potential offer of paid work.
  • (14) This response was produced in vivo at exposure levels which produced cleft palate, and after exposure of palatal shelves to RA in vitro from GD 12-15.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
  • (17) After more than a quarter of a century of camping out, the house, with its seven flights of stairs (a trial to Lessing in her final years), seemed almost to be supported by a precarious interior scaffolding of piles of books and shelves.
  • (18) "Had Obama even an iota of ethics and morality, he should have postponed or shelved his trip," it said.
  • (19) What’s more, older people are now topping up pensions by doing a few hours a week stacking shelves or operating the tills at the supermarket.
  • (20) The austerity drive and recession meant some big construction projects being shelved, while in many regions housing market activity slumped.

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