gallery
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See also: Gallery
Etymology
From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, 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.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡæləɹi/; enPR: gălˈ -ə-rē
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: gal‧le‧ry
- Rhymes: -æləɹi
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.
- (by extension, metonymically) The spectators at an event, collectively.
- 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
- Capello was missing his son's wedding in Milan to take charge – yet his reshaped England team gave him cause for a double celebration as they overturned the odds in front of a delighted Wembley gallery.
- (law) The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
- 1969, Paul McCartney (lyrics and music), “Maxwell's Silver Hammer”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:
- Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free
- A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
- (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- a gallery of image thumbnails
- a clip-art gallery in a word processor
- (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- (mining) A level or drive in a mine.
- (automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
- 2012, Colin Campbell, The Sports Car: Its design and performance, page 92:
- At about 2500 r.p.m., as much oil is by-passed through the cooler as the amount delivered to the main gallery and at higher engine speeds the flow through the cooler is appreciably greater.
- 2014, Tim Gilles, Automotive Engines, page 164:
- Metal grit from a previous engine failure was lodged in the oil galleries and had come loose upon driving the vehicle.
- (television) The production control room.
- A part of a monocle–a projection off the ring holding the lens–which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
- (entomology) The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
- beetle gallery
- Short for gallery forest.
Derived terms
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Translations
institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art
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establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art
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area of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium
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roofed promenade along the wall of a building
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Verb
gallery (third-person singular simple present galleries, present participle gallerying, simple past and past participle galleried)
- (Trinidad and Tobago) To show off.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gallery”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
- “gallery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “gallery”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “gallery”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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