Difference between Shelve and Defer

SHELVE vs DEFER: NOUN

Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion
Hold back to a later time
To delay, or postpone, especially to postpone induction into military service.
To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
Yield to another's wish or opinion

To put off; to delay to act; to wait.
To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.

To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely.
To furnish with shelves.

To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
To render or offer.
To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

To furnish with shelves, as a room or closet.
To place on a shelf: as, to shelve books.
To incline or tip (a cart) so as to discharge its load.
To slope; incline.
To lay by on a shelf; put away or aside as disposed of or not needed; hence, to put off or neglect: as, to shelve a question or a claim.

To refer; leave to another's judgment and determination
To yield to another's opinion; submit in opinion: with to.
To delay; put off; postpone to a future time: as, to defer the execution of a design.
To cause to wait; remand; put off: applied to persons.
To wait; delay; procrastinate.
To offer; render; assign: as, to defer the command of an army.

Store, Park, Categorize, Stay, Classify, Adjourn, Suspend, Set back, Put over, Hold over, Remit, Table, Put off, Defer, Postpone

Withhold, Delay, Suspend, Hold over, Give in, Set back, Put over, Table, Put off, Bow, Remit, Submit, Accede, Shelve, Postpone

Abandon, Rank, Archive, Store, Park, Categorize, Stay, Classify, Adjourn, Suspend, Put over, Remit, Table, Put off, Defer

Dismiss, Wait, Adjourn, Reschedule, Withhold, Delay, Suspend, Put over, Give in, Table, Put off, Remit, Submit, Accede, Shelve

It may be time to shelve this collaborative project.
Start by adding a bookcase or hanging wall shelve.
May shelve back issues of periodicals in storage area.
We had to shelve the idea because of that.
Below the thick tabletop, is a thin storage shelve.
Proposed voters the tables will be turned, shelve Adjourns.
Librarians in small organizations sometimes shelve books themselves.
Some libraries shelve current issues by call number.
How many books did he shelve on Monday?
To shelve a license a signed affidavit must be submitted for every year you wish to shelve your license.

Suppose your company decides to defer the tax.
It is not possible to defer your scholarship.
Government to defer increases in S Pass and.
Requiring that civil activities defer to social ethics.
How Often Do Courts Defer to Agency Interpretations?
Steele, I defer to the Department of Justice.
If the board decides to defer parole, the inmate may be able to request a reconsideration of the decision to defer release.
Thus, an employer may not defer any tax payment of taxes if it does not defer collecting those taxes from employees.
Fix driver to defer on clk_get defer The new SCMI clock protocol driver does not get probed that early in boot.
If runners choose to defer, the products will defer also.