different between gallery vs countermine

English

Etymology

From Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æl??i/
• Hyphenation: gal?le?ry

Noun

gallery (plural galleries)

1. An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
2. An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
3. The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
4. (law) The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
5. A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
6. The spectators of an event, collectively.
7. (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.

   a gallery of image thumbnails

   a clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor

8. (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
9. (mining) a level or drive in a mine.

Derived terms

Related terms

• gallerist

Translations

Verb

gallery (third-person singular simple present galleries, present participle gallerying, simple past and past participle galleried)

1. (Trinidad and Tobago) To show off

Further reading

• gallery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gallery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gallery at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• allergy, largely, regally

English

Etymology

From counter- +? mine.

Noun

countermine (plural countermines)

1. A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 436:

     Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine, but the tunnel was now far too close for that.

2. An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
3. A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.

   • Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.

Verb

countermine (third-person singular simple present countermines, present participle countermining, simple past and past participle countermined)

1. To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
2. (transitive, intransitive) to sap hostile mining.

Synonyms

• (to plot opposition): counterplot