different between gallery vs oriel

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

Old French oriol (“gallery, corridor”), Late Latin oriolum (“portico, hall”), probably from Latin aureolus (“gilded”), applied to an apartment decorated with gilding. See oriole. Or a diminutive of Latin os (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????i?l/

Noun

oriel (plural oriels)

1. (architecture) A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall.
2. (obsolete) A gallery for minstrels.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Hamper to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) A small apartment next to a hall, used for dining.

Usage notes

• There is no generally accepted difference between a bay window and an oriel. In the United States, the latter name is often applied to bay windows which are small, and either polygonal or round, and to those that are corbelled out from the wall instead of resting on the ground.

Translations

Anagrams

• El Rio, Le Roi, LeRoi, Leroi, Loire, Lorie, oiler, reoil