Gallery
['gæl(ə)rɪ] or ['gæləri]
Definition
(noun.) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade.
(noun.) a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns).
(noun.) a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; 'shooting gallery'.
(noun.) a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited.
(noun.) spectators at a golf or tennis match.
Typed by Jody--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
(a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
(a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
(a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
(a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
(a.) A working drift or level.
Checker: Susie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Corridor, passage.[2]. Collection of works of art.
Typed by Anton
Definition
n. a balcony surrounded by rails: a long passage: the upper floor of seats in a church or theatre: the persons occupying the gallery at a theatre: a room for the exhibition of works of art: (fort.) a covered passage cut through the earth or masonry: a level or drive in a mine.—adj. Gall′eried furnished with or arranged like a gallery.—Play to the gallery to play so as to win the applause of the least intelligent amongst the spectators.
Typist: Shelby
Examples
- Is our dress a pit-dress or a gallery-dress ma'am? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There's where the ball-room's to be, with a gallery connecting it: billiard-room and so on above. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Obedient to a nod from the trooper, Phil retires, empty-handed, to the other end of the gallery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He shuffles slowly into Mr. George's gallery and stands huddled together in a bundle, looking all about the floor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was this, I conceive, which led to the Shade's being advised by the gallery to turn over! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Peggotty is ready to go to church, intending to behold the ceremony from the gallery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When at last she left you, you lapsed at once into deep reverie: you betook yourself slowly to pace the gallery. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He proposed in the recess--in the room that used to be a picture-gallery--that Sir Monckton converted into it saloon? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am a physician and was requested--five minutes ago--to come and visit a sick man at George's Shooting Gallery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A man ain't ashamed to say he wants to own a racing stable or a picture gallery. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Around the sides of the room, bounding this open space, run two tiers of gallery, divided, as is the main floor beneath them; into alcoves of liberal dimensions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The room they were in had once been a picture-gallery. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was a church to see, or a picture-gallery--there was a ride, or an opera. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She stood several minutes before the picture, in earnest contemplation, and returned to it again before they quitted the gallery. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- From the rail before the dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- These four perpendicular ranges of windows admitted air, and, the fire being kindled, heat, or smoke at least, to each of the galleries. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They prowled about the churches and picture-galleries, much in the old, dreary, prison-yard manner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I could not rest under the imputation that I visited Florence and did not traverse its weary miles of picture galleries. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Among a long list of churches, art galleries, and such things, visited by us in Venice, I shall mention only one--the church of Santa Maria dei Frari. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The rooms on the floor above the two galleries are kept in tolerable repair, but are very seldom used. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It begins to dawn upon me, now, that possibly, what I have been taking for uniform ugliness in the galleries may be uniform beauty after all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If this were set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces, would I think it so handsome? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Even to-day enough remains of the galleries, shafts, sco ria, mine-lamps, and other utensils to give a clear idea of this scene of ancient industry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I liked to visit the picture-galleries, and I dearly liked to be left there alone. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There were long galleries, and ancient state bedrooms, there were pictures and old China, and armour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We rode on asses and mules up the steep, narrow streets and entered the subterranean galleries the English have blasted out in the rock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But we reached the upper galleries without detection and presently Thuvia halted us at the foot of a short, steep ascent. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But I travel to learn, and I still remember that they picture no French defeats in the battle-galleries of Versailles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Lorna