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gallery
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)
- An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of 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.
- (law) The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom 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
- The spectators of an event, collectively.
- (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- a gallery of image thumbnails
- a clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor
- (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- (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)
- (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
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galley
English
Etymology
From Middle English galeie, from Old French galee, from Latin galea, from Byzantine Greek ????? (galéa) of unknown origin, probably from Ancient Greek ????? (galé?), a kind of a small fish, from ?????? (galeós, “dog-fish or small shark”). Doublet of galea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æli/
- Rhymes: -æli
Noun
galley (plural galleys)
- (nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
- (Britain) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
- (nautical) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
- (nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
- An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
- (printing) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
- (printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
- (heraldry) A representation of a single masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket.
Synonyms
- (heraldry) lymphad
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- bireme
- trireme
- quadrireme
- unireme/monoreme/penteconter
- quinquereme/pentere
- polyreme
- Galley Common
Further reading
- galley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- egally
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