# gallery

Pronunciation: US say "GAL-uh-ree" /ˈɡæləɹi/; UK

## Noun

1. A building, room, or institution for displaying and preserving important objects, especially works of art.
   - Simple: A building or room where people can look at art and other important objects.
   - _The gallery acquired a rare sculpture for its permanent collection._
   - _Several galleries lend their finest works to the touring exhibition._
2. A business that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
   - Simple: A shop where people buy, sell, and look at works of art.
   - _The gallery represents a dozen emerging painters and handles all their sales._
   - _Several galleries closed after the art market slumped._
3. A browsable collection of images, font styles, or similar items, especially on a computer.
   - Simple: A set of pictures or designs you can scroll through and look at on a screen.
   - _The design software opens a gallery of font styles you can preview before choosing._
   - _Each photo in the gallery loads as a thumbnail you can tap to enlarge._
4. The highest seating area in a theater, concert hall, or auditorium, projecting from the rear or side walls.
   - Simple: The highest level of seats in a theater, high above the stage.
   - _The cheapest tickets put you in the gallery, far above the orchestra._
   - _Latecomers were sent up to the gallery so they wouldn't disturb the front rows._
5. The group of spectators watching an event, considered collectively.
   - Simple: All the people watching an event, taken as a group.
   - _The gallery fell silent as the player lined up the decisive shot._
   - _He couldn't resist playing to the gallery whenever the cameras turned his way._
6. A covered walkway, especially one that runs along a building's wall, with arches or columns holding it up along its outer edge.
   - Simple: A long covered walkway, often running along the outside wall of a building.
   - _A colonnaded gallery ran the length of the palace's south front._
   - _Visitors walked the covered gallery to stay out of the rain._
7. The section of a courtroom, often raised and at the rear, where the public sits to watch a trial.
   - Simple: The area at the back of a courtroom where members of the public can sit and watch a trial.
   - _Members of the victim's family watched from the gallery throughout the hearing._
   - _A murmur ran through the gallery when the verdict was read._
8. A horizontal passage or level driven through rock in a mine.
   - Simple: A long, flat passage dug into a mine for miners to move through.
   - _Timber supports lined the gallery to keep the roof from collapsing._
   - _The old mine's galleries stretched for miles beneath the valley._
9. A covered passage cut through earth or masonry, especially in fortifications.
   - Simple: A covered passage cut through earth or stone, used in old forts.
   - _Engineers extended the gallery under the rampart to plant explosives._
   - _Each gallery let the garrison move between bastions unseen._
10. A channel that carries engine oil to the parts needing lubrication, such as the main bearings.
   - Simple: A small channel inside an engine that carries oil to the parts that need it.
   - _Mechanics flushed the gallery to clear out the sludge._
   - _The main gallery feeds oil to each of the crankshaft bearings._
11. The control room from which a television production is directed and managed.
   - Simple: The room where a TV show is controlled and put together while it is being made.
   - _The director called shots from the gallery during the live broadcast._
   - _Producers crowded into the gallery to monitor the evening bulletin._
12. A boring trail or tunnel produced by an insect as it tunnels through wood.
   - Simple: A tunnel or trail that an insect bores as it eats through wood.
   - _Bark beetles carve an intricate gallery beneath the surface of dying trees._
   - _Each larva extends its own gallery away from the central tunnel._
13. A structural part of a light fixture that often provides the mounting for the diffuser.
   - Simple: A part of a light fixture that helps hold the fixture together and supports the cover over the bulb.
   - _The lamp's gallery supports the frosted diffuser beneath the bulb._
   - _A loose gallery let the shade rattle whenever the fan switched on._
14. A projection off the ring of a monocle that helps secure the lens in the eye socket.
   - Simple: A small rim sticking out from a monocle that helps keep it held in the eye.
   - _The monocle's gallery gripped the edge of his eye socket, holding the lens steady._
   - _Without a proper gallery, the lens kept dropping from his eye._
15. Ellipsis of gallery forest. — Ellipsis of gallery forest.
   - Simple: Short form of gallery forest. Used to mean a strip of trees growing along a river.
   - _Wildlife concentrated in the gallery threading across the dry grassland._
   - _The gallery shaded the watercourse even at the height of the dry season._

## Verb

16. To show off, especially in order to win the favor of spectators. *(dialectal, Trinidad and Tobago)*
   - Simple: To show off, especially to please the people who are watching.
   - _The young players gallery for the cameras instead of focusing on the match._
   - _She tends to gallery whenever important guests are watching._

## Origin

The word passed from Middle English galery through Middle French and Old French galerie ("a long portico, a gallery") from Medieval Latin galeria ("gallery"), which is of unknown origin. It may perhaps be an alteration of Latin galilea ("church porch"), probably from Galilaea, Galilee, a region of Israel.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/gallery (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).