Shelf vs. Chef — What's the Difference?

A flat length of wood or rigid material, attached to a wall or forming part of a piece of furniture, that provides a surface for the storage or display of objects.

A chef is a trained professional cook and tradesman who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation, often focusing on a particular cuisine. The word "chef" is derived from the term chef de cuisine (French pronunciation: ​[ʃɛf.də.kɥi.zin]), the director or head of a kitchen.

A ledge of rock or protruding strip of land.

A cook, especially the chief cook of a large kitchen staff.

An informer.

The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

Inform on (someone)

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

A flat, usually rectangular structure composed of a rigid material, such as wood, glass, or metal, fixed at right angles to a wall or other vertical surface and used to hold or store objects.

Any cook.

The contents or capacity of such a structure.

(slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.

Something, such as a projecting ledge of rock or a balcony, that resembles such a structure.

(historical) A reliquary in the shape of a head.

A reef, sandbar, or shoal.

To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.

Bedrock.

To stab with a knife, to shank.

A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects.

A chief or head person.

The capacity of such an object

The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.

Same as Chief.

A reef, shoal or sandbar.

A professional cook

(computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.

A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.

A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.

A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.

A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.

A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects

A projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water