gallery /ˈɡæləɹi/noun 15verb 1forms 3phrases 2 noun15 •a public building or room that keeps and shows valuable things, mostly paintings and other artIn the gallery are displayed genuine artifacts dug up from the site, and in the gift shop you can buy a replica as a souvenir.Some of her work is so impressive that it really ought to be in a gallery. •An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.Some of her best work can be yours: it is available at a gallery, if you can afford it. •The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.We could afford the less expensive seats in the gallery. •The spectators at an event, collectively.The politician was clearly appealing to the gallery •The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery Say he must go free — 1969 •A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.a gallery of image thumbnails •A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.elegant galleries looking out onto manicured gardens •A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry. •A level or drive in a mine.the lower galleries •The boring trails produced by an insect in wood. •Ellipsis of gallery forest. •The production control room. •A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.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. — 2012 •A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.opaline lights with brass galleries •A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket. verb1 •To show off. formsgalleried · gallerying · galleries Phrases with gallery peanut galleryIn the nineteenth century, the cheap seats at the back of a theatre or in the upper balcony. play to the galleryTo appeal to the least sophisticated parts of an audience in order to obtain maximum approval.
