What's the difference between shelves and whatnot?

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.

Whatnot


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Would the new generation of MBM follower prefer an sms style of LOLs and whatnot?"
  • (2) We've all grown out of the excitement for eating the morning pre-dawn meal and getting invited to iftar meals and whatnot.
  • (3) "Way back when, in the days when the tournament was young, I posted something I'd figured out about penalty shootouts, extra time, attacking football and whatnot.
  • (4) Much was made about it because of her father and whatnot, but we had a simple relationship in my opinion.
  • (5) When we meet again at the Toronto film festival, where The Fifth Estate has just premiered, he is surrounded by a circus of publicists, people with clipboards, stylists and whatnot, but the easy, unguarded friendliness has somehow survived.
  • (6) Ayckbourn's early plays Christmas V Mastermind (1962) and Mr Whatnot (1963) were staged at the Vic.
  • (7) I’m about to wander round Mill Hill with PJ O’Rourke and get him to tell me stories about legendary US election campaigns whilst vaguely paying attention to Boris calling into wine merchants and whatnot.
  • (8) "I was concerned about my private jet travel and whatnot ...
  • (9) "We haven't seen the usual high and wide early shots and whatnot that we've had over the last few tournament when they introduce the newest helium-filled 99p beach fizz."
  • (10) "This sort of leisurely boffinry is just the ticket in these days of X Factor arsery and Made In Chelsea and whatnot."
  • (11) This is not a great way to spy on you in the bathroom and whatnot."
  • (12) He's making pigs run off cliffs, he's possessing people and whatnot.
  • (13) Music that he would respond to, music that reflects the world he’s living in, things he would have listened to growing up or whatnot.” He’ll play them in his trailer or driving to the set.
  • (14) Look, don't get me wrong about Affleck: he seems like a nice guy, and I was made up for him over that business with the Iranian hostage movie and the beardy Oscar and whatnot, even if best picture is an award also recently bestowed upon the likes of Crash and The Hurt Locker (huzzah for movies which dispense with yesteryear concepts like "stories" and "characters anyone could give a toss about").
  • (15) This is because Amazon is expected to subsidise the cost of the handset and the monthly price plan using the revenue from the vast amount of Amazon media, electronics and whatnot you are inevitably going to purchase with it.
  • (16) I want the simple Oxo gravy or Bisto, not this fancy rubbish with wine and whatnot in it.
  • (17) Just email your thoughts, questions, jokes and whatnot to Hunter.Felt@theguardian.com or tweet @HunterFelt .
  • (18) It’s great content on there: they want WAV files and whatnot.
  • (19) Everything here is rendered super-tempting with purées, caviar, truffle oils and whatnot, but for a hot day, try the red tuna sashimi with wakame followed by mandarin sorbet with vodka.
  • (20) Yes, of course it means that I can reach things on shelves and whatnot.

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