Gallery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Gallery	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Gallery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gallery n spectators at a golf or tennis match a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) Synonym(s): veranda, verandah, gallery a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited Synonym(s): gallery, art gallery, picture gallery a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery" a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" Synonym(s): drift, heading, gallery
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 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. 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. 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. 5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery. 6. (Mining) A working drift or level. {Whispering gallery}. See under {Whispering}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Gallery (1.) Heb. 'attik (Ezek. 41:15, 16), a terrace; a projection; ledge. (2.) Heb. rahit (Cant. 1:17), translated "rafters," marg. "galleries;" probably panel-work or fretted ceiling.