gallery

gallery has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. 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.
• a.. A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
• a.. 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.
• a.. 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.
• a.. Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
• a.. A working drift or level.
• n.. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
• n.. narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
• n.. a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
• n.. a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery"
• n.. a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
• n.. a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)