gallery

Plural: galleries

Noun

• spectators at a golf or tennis match
• a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
• a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
• a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
  • "shooting gallery"
• a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
• narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
• a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
• An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
• An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
• The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
• The spectators at an event, collectively.
• The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
• A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
• A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
• A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
• A level or drive in a mine.
• A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
• The production control room.
• A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.
• A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
• The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
• Ellipsis of gallery forest.

Verb

Verb Forms: galleried, gallerying, galleries

• To furnish or adorn with a gallery or long, covered passage.
• To show off.

Examples

• a clip-art gallery in a word processor
• a gallery of image thumbnails
• adjusting the distance between the bottom gallery and the top gallery
• appealing to the gallery
• beetle gallery
• elegant galleries looking out onto manicured gardens
• In the gallery are displayed genuine artifacts dug up from the site, and in the gift shop you can buy a replica as a souvenir.
• opaline lights with brass galleries
• She hoped to GALLERY her words across the board, building a high-scoring network.
• Some of her best work can be yours: it is available at a gallery, if you can afford it.
• Some of her work is so impressive that it really ought to be in a gallery.
• the galleries of the fort
• the lower galleries
• the main gallery
• The politician was clearly appealing to the gallery
• We could afford the less expensive seats in the gallery.

Synonyms

art gallery, drift, heading, picture gallery, veranda, verandah

Related Words

gallerist

Anagrams of gallery