gallery : Idioms & Phrases

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  • noun a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
    art gallery; gallery.
WordNet
  • an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; called also infiltration gallery.
Webster 1913
  • noun a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater; stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies
    fly floor.
WordNet
  • a filter gallery.
Webster 1913
  • noun (figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance)
    • he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery
  • noun rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats
    upper balcony; family circle; second balcony.
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  • noun a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
    art gallery; gallery.
WordNet
  • a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures.
Webster 1913
  • noun an area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall)
WordNet
  • (Naut.), a balcony on the quarter of a ship. See Gallery, 4.
Webster 1913
  • noun a coterie of undesirable people
    galere.
  • noun a collection of pictures of criminals
WordNet
  • a collection of portraits of rogues or criminals, for the use of the police authorities.
Webster 1913
  • noun a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
  • noun an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice
    shooting range.
WordNet
  • a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms. [Slang] a place, often a building or neighborhood, where addicts "shoot up" drugs.
Webster 1913
  • noun a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points
    whispering dome.
WordNet
  • . See under Whispering.
Webster 1913
  • one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.
Webster 1913