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gallery
(mass) | gallery
- galéria |
gallery
(encz) | gallery,fotoateliér n: Zdeněk Brož |
gallery
(encz) | gallery,fotografický ateliér n: Zdeněk Brož |
gallery
(encz) | gallery,galerie n: |
gallery
(encz) | gallery,chodba n: Zdeněk Brož |
gallery
(encz) | gallery,obrazárna n: Zdeněk Brož |
Gallery
(gcide) | Gallery \Gal"ler*y\, n.; pl. Galleries. [F. galerie, It.
galleria, fr. LL. galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal
hall, banquetting hall; cf. OF. galerie a rejoicing, fr.
galer to rejoice. Cf. Gallant, a.]
1. 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.
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2. A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture
gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of
paintings, sculptures, etc.
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3. 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.
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4. (Naut.) 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.
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5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as
well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a
defensive gallery.
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6. (Mining) A working drift or level.
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Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.
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gallery
(wn) | gallery
n 1: spectators at a golf or tennis match
2: a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly
enclosed) [syn: veranda, verandah, gallery]
3: a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
[syn: gallery, art gallery, picture gallery]
4: a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose;
"shooting gallery"
5: a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall
of a building and supported with arches or columns)
6: narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the
interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
7: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine;
"they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: drift,
heading, gallery] |
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