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WORD ORIGINgallery

Origin:

1400-1500 Medieval Latin galeria, perhaps from galilaea ‘small room for praying in inside a church’, probably from Galilaea ‘Galilee’, area in Palestine where Christ traveled and taught

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

a craft gallery downtown
Dale is showing some of his work in one of the galleries downtown.
One of the rooms has been made into a small modern art gallery.
The museum's new gallery will be named after the Andersons.
the National Portrait Gallery in Washington
the public gallery in Congress
We spent the afternoon looking at paintings in the National Gallery.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Burglars broke into the gallery shortly after the Erte was hung.
He owns and operates an art gallery in downtown Phoenix that shows only his own work.
Heroes of change, locally and internationally, will be honored in a gallery of photography, artwork, paintings and sculpture.
It's a kind of work encountered with more and more frequency in New York galleries these days.
Our steps echo over the marble floors, through the cavernous rooms and long galleries.
There were four galleries here, of which two remain.
They asked if I would like to be gallery secretary.

Longman Language Activatora place where art is shown► gallery

a building or room where you can go to look at paintings, sculptures etc: · One of the rooms has been made into a small modern art gallery.· We spent the afternoon looking at paintings in the National Gallery.· Dale is showing some of his work in one of the galleries downtown.

► museum

American a large building where you can go to look at paintings, sculptures etc: · The museum has a few of Van Gogh's early paintings.museum of: · Baldesaro is in New York preparing a showing at the Museum of Modern Art.

► exhibition

a collection of paintings, sculptures etc, often the work of one artist or a group of similar artists, which you can go to see - use this especially when they are only being shown for a limited period of time: · Have you seen the O'Keefe exhibition yet?exhibition of: · The exhibition of works by Hans Memling opens next week.on exhibition: · Many of the photographs on exhibition were taken by artists who worked primarily in other media.

► show

an event at which the work of one artist or a group of artists is shown and is often for sale to the public: · Tomorrow is the opening night of her show in Cork Street, London.· a show of new work by young artists

WORD SETS► Earth Sciences

avalanche, nounaxis, nouncatchment area, nouncrater, noundinosaur, noundivide, nounelement, nounextinct, adjectivegallery, noungeo-, prefixgeophysics, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, noungoldfield, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounleach, verbmagnetic pole, nounmagnitude, nounmantle, nounmeteorite, nounmolten, adjectivemother lode, nounnatural history, nounonyx, nounopal, nounozone layer, nounpaleontology, nounpitchblende, nounPleistocene, adjectivePliocene, adjectiveprimeval, adjectivequake, verbquake, nounrarefied, adjectiverock, verbscour, verbshock wave, nounslide, nounsoapstone, nounstony, adjectivestream, nounstrip mine, nounsubcontinent, nounsubterranean, adjectivesuperficial, adjectiveterrain, nounterrestrial, adjectivetremor, nounundercurrent, nounvolcanic, adjectivevolcano, nounvortex, nounwater table, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + gallery► an art gallery

· a guide to the city's museums and art galleries

► a picture/portrait gallery

· The picture gallery is full of treasures.

► a private gallery

(=owned by a private person)· The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States.

► the national gallery

(=owned by the country)· Edinburgh has three national galleries.

verbs► visit/go to a gallery

· The children visited the gallery on a school trip.

► a painting hangs in a gallery

· Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.

► a gallery is showing/exhibiting something

· The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works.

► exhibit something in/at a gallery

· It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery.

gallery + NOUN► gallery space

(=area for displaying art)· She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► commercial

· In a commercial gallery, the size of the rooms is decisive.· We can consider solo exhibitions instead, in either public or commercial galleries.· Taking a painting from a commercial art gallery does not fall within s.11.· It may also have been encouraged by the increasing emphasis given to one-person exhibitions by living artists in commercial galleries and museums.

► long

· The displays are shown in Victorian cases housed in a long, narrow gallery running parallel to the windows on to Chambers Street.· Our steps echo over the marble floors, through the cavernous rooms and long galleries.· It is one of the longer galleries.· This is one of the long galleries, with a fine flight of steps for access.· We're going through this entrance here which leads into a long gallery.· The long gallery and large windows show the transition from stronghold to country house.· It is one of the longest galleries and is approached by both ramp and steps.· There is interest amongst spinners regarding the long galleries.

► main

· In due course the main gallery will be refurbished and modernised to provide an important contribution to the cultural amenities of Bristol.· The main gallery chronicles the settling of Prescott.· Then we all went into the main gallery for luncheon.

► national

· The national portrait gallery now gets £310,000.· Museums London A national gallery for the twentieth-century before the twentieth century's done?· Given the way in which the grant works, the national gallery is only able to buy works on instalments.· It had been suggested that the government buy the collection for a national gallery.· In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp, the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting.

► new

· Fortunately, it wasn't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery.· They got an immediate, positive reaction to their new gallery.· Everything in its new gallery has been made carved painted by mentally disabled people.· The new gallery will host eight shows a year.· Is this an important factor for your new gallery?· In other museum news, a new gallery dedicated to supporters Margot and Hans Ries opens Jan. 24.· The new gallery will allow many more of the roughly 6,000 items owned by the museum to be shown.· But an architect friend offered me premises in Portland Mews, funnily enough just around the corner from our new gallery.

► public

· They ran from the public gallery to help Mrs Hughes when she fainted.· As he left the dock he waved to friends and relatives who were in the public gallery.· We can consider solo exhibitions instead, in either public or commercial galleries.· A bullet-proof glass screen sealed the public gallery and everyone entering the building was subjected to a body search.· Scuffles broke out in the public gallery after victim Tony's relatives cheered at the sentences.· Friends and relatives in the public gallery clapped and cheered when Ian Ainsworth was found not guilty.· In the public gallery were some of those people who it's alledged were victims of Mr How's company.

► shooting

· The skeleton of a Ferris wheel loomed; shooting galleries and hoopla stalls were being knocked together.· So you'd slip into a shooting gallery to test the dope.· Only the top half of her body was visible, and she resembled a moving target on a shooting gallery.· For those unmoved, the Ferris wheel spun its neon lights and the shooting galleries popped.· Adding to the noise and jollity were a shooting gallery and coconut shy.· And they're on hand to lend a hand in the air pistol shooting gallery.

► small

· From the small gallery above the operating theatre the whole process was obscure, if sickeningly bloody, to the watching Cowley.· A small art gallery has opened, but the remainder of the space is still vacant.· The smaller second gallery has the atmosphere of a shrine.· Before he left for More it had opened as a small art gallery.· The smaller galleries could not accommodate these large wheels, and within the house floor space was not always available.· We opened a small gallery overlooking the roof tops of Sotheby's in 1976.

► upper

· The latter has an upper gallery which goes round the whole court, providing impressive vistas through the traceried openings.· There is a high, upper gallery that encircles the inner courtyard of the main house.· Prepare the guards in the upper galleries.· I said while we were jogging around the upper running gallery of the main gym.· The upper windows and galleries were full enough, however, although the faces were more respectful and curious than ecstatic.· We stood on an upper gallery overlooking the main drawing room.

NOUN► art

· It's famous for royal palaces, wonderful art galleries, stunning architecture and even its seaside.· They had both worked at successful art galleries in Manhattan.· Quite nice. Art galleries and bookshops and things.· And the great Tretyakov art gallery may have its utilities shut off for nonpayment of bills.· They were partners in an art gallery that specialized in avant-garde paintings by young artists.· Also of interest is the surrounding town, full of antiques and art galleries and several interesting restaurants.· There is an art gallery in the foyer which hosts regular touring and locally produced exhibitions.· Like generations of art collectors before him, Thomas Baron enjoys visiting art galleries.

► hours

· Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p. m. Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 7 p. m. Thursday.· Regular gallery hours are 2 to 4 p. m. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.· Regular gallery hours are 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday through Friday.· Regular gallery hours are 7: 30 a. m. to 7 p. m. daily.· Regular summer gallery hours are 5 to 7 p. m. Thursday, and 7 to 10 p. m. during Downtown Saturday Nights.

► owner

· Every few years he was rediscovered by an enthusiastic critic or gallery owner, although the success never gelled.· Aimee was a gallery owner, Sommard a curator and museum director.· Patricia Sharp painted more than 30 new works for the occasion after an invitation by the gallery owner to lead the exhibition.· And at the same time on Wednesday, September 17, Jos Galvez, photographer and gallery owner, will discuss photojournalism.· The gallery was full and the gallery owner looked happier than when I had last seen him.· The gallery owner sighed when he saw us.· So the occasional gallery owner prepared to support a Black artist gets much credit in this show.· Obviously the gallery owner makes a calculated risk by devoting wall space entirely to the work of a single artist.

► picture

· Two square halls would give the effect. externally. of solid massive buttresses, while internally they would serve as picture galleries.· What happens when the picture gallery begins to revolve?· I enter the town past the sawmill, which has now become a health shop and picture gallery.· However, I must warn you to be on your guard and to approach the picture gallery with caution.· Outside my line of vision lies a picture gallery of all her dead female relations of the Gittel line.

► press

· At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks.· First stop, the Senate press gallery.· Forty years ago, female reporters were denied access to the congressional press galleries with the same excuse.

► space

· Not having seen the exhibition previously I can not comment on how differing gallery spaces have contributed to the overall effect.· Of course, it helps that the actual La Jolla gallery space was reused from the earlier design.· In our present recession, we frequently see the gallery space being singled out for a cut and Watermans is no exception.· In addition 500 square metres of flexible gallery space will be created on the lower floor of the gallery.· Since gallery space was already in short supply, the connecting passage to the Sackler was recast as a subterranean exhibition hall.

VERB► open

· The flames were now extinguished, windows had been opened in the top gallery and the smoke was beginning to dissipate.· It was after their penultimate visit that Cigna had okayed opening the art gallery.· As normal he had opened the gallery, but when the first customer came in, he just could not concentrate.· Outside, I could hear doors opening on the gallery and running footsteps.· We opened a small gallery overlooking the roof tops of Sotheby's in 1976.· In early 1993 he will also open a second gallery in Cologne, at Zwirner's former space at Albertusstrasse 18.

► run

· They ran from the public gallery to help Mrs Hughes when she fainted.· For four or five years, running the gallery virtually by himself, he showed only photography.· Dunbar was to run the art gallery attached to the shop, Miles would take care of the books.· The partnership runs the gallery, which it says is the first of its kind in the county.· He was already in Cork St. What was your early experience of running a gallery like?· So I hired him to run the art gallery.· I glimpsed Mathilda's white face then ran into the gallery, pushing open the door to the solar.· I said while we were jogging around the upper running gallery of the main gym.

► shoot

· The sailors attacked stores owned by blacks and looted shooting galleries for rifles and ammunition.

► show

· These illustrations then acted as reference material for large oil paintings which were shown in galleries.· The Toddler shows up at her gallery opening.· The original Deeds show the gallery.· Waid has been painting full time since 1980, and he shows at galleries in Scottsdale, Chicago and New York.

单词	gallery
释义	gallerygal‧le‧ry /ˈɡæləri/ ●●○ W3 noun (plural galleries) [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINgallery Origin: 1400-1500 Medieval Latin galeria, perhaps from galilaea ‘small room for praying in inside a church’, probably from Galilaea ‘Galilee’, area in Palestine where Christ traveled and taught Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a craft gallery downtown Dale is showing some of his work in one of the galleries downtown. One of the rooms has been made into a small modern art gallery. The museum's new gallery will be named after the Andersons. the National Portrait Gallery in Washington the public gallery in Congress We spent the afternoon looking at paintings in the National Gallery. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Burglars broke into the gallery shortly after the Erte was hung. He owns and operates an art gallery in downtown Phoenix that shows only his own work. Heroes of change, locally and internationally, will be honored in a gallery of photography, artwork, paintings and sculpture. It's a kind of work encountered with more and more frequency in New York galleries these days. Our steps echo over the marble floors, through the cavernous rooms and long galleries. There were four galleries here, of which two remain. They asked if I would like to be gallery secretary. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatora place where art is shown► gallery a building or room where you can go to look at paintings, sculptures etc: · One of the rooms has been made into a small modern art gallery.· We spent the afternoon looking at paintings in the National Gallery.· Dale is showing some of his work in one of the galleries downtown. ► museum American a large building where you can go to look at paintings, sculptures etc: · The museum has a few of Van Gogh's early paintings.museum of: · Baldesaro is in New York preparing a showing at the Museum of Modern Art. ► exhibition a collection of paintings, sculptures etc, often the work of one artist or a group of similar artists, which you can go to see - use this especially when they are only being shown for a limited period of time: · Have you seen the O'Keefe exhibition yet?exhibition of: · The exhibition of works by Hans Memling opens next week.on exhibition: · Many of the photographs on exhibition were taken by artists who worked primarily in other media. ► show an event at which the work of one artist or a group of artists is shown and is often for sale to the public: · Tomorrow is the opening night of her show in Cork Street, London.· a show of new work by young artists WORD SETS► Earth Sciences avalanche, nounaxis, nouncatchment area, nouncrater, noundinosaur, noundivide, nounelement, nounextinct, adjectivegallery, noungeo-, prefixgeophysics, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, noungoldfield, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounleach, verbmagnetic pole, nounmagnitude, nounmantle, nounmeteorite, nounmolten, adjectivemother lode, nounnatural history, nounonyx, nounopal, nounozone layer, nounpaleontology, nounpitchblende, nounPleistocene, adjectivePliocene, adjectiveprimeval, adjectivequake, verbquake, nounrarefied, adjectiverock, verbscour, verbshock wave, nounslide, nounsoapstone, nounstony, adjectivestream, nounstrip mine, nounsubcontinent, nounsubterranean, adjectivesuperficial, adjectiveterrain, nounterrestrial, adjectivetremor, nounundercurrent, nounvolcanic, adjectivevolcano, nounvortex, nounwater table, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + gallery► an art gallery · a guide to the city's museums and art galleries ► a picture/portrait gallery · The picture gallery is full of treasures. ► a private gallery (=owned by a private person)· The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States. ► the national gallery (=owned by the country)· Edinburgh has three national galleries. verbs► visit/go to a gallery · The children visited the gallery on a school trip. ► a painting hangs in a gallery · Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada. ► a gallery is showing/exhibiting something · The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works. ► exhibit something in/at a gallery · It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery. gallery + NOUN► gallery space (=area for displaying art)· She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► commercial · In a commercial gallery, the size of the rooms is decisive.· We can consider solo exhibitions instead, in either public or commercial galleries.· Taking a painting from a commercial art gallery does not fall within s.11.· It may also have been encouraged by the increasing emphasis given to one-person exhibitions by living artists in commercial galleries and museums. ► long · The displays are shown in Victorian cases housed in a long, narrow gallery running parallel to the windows on to Chambers Street.· Our steps echo over the marble floors, through the cavernous rooms and long galleries.· It is one of the longer galleries.· This is one of the long galleries, with a fine flight of steps for access.· We're going through this entrance here which leads into a long gallery.· The long gallery and large windows show the transition from stronghold to country house.· It is one of the longest galleries and is approached by both ramp and steps.· There is interest amongst spinners regarding the long galleries. ► main · In due course the main gallery will be refurbished and modernised to provide an important contribution to the cultural amenities of Bristol.· The main gallery chronicles the settling of Prescott.· Then we all went into the main gallery for luncheon. ► national · The national portrait gallery now gets £310,000.· Museums London A national gallery for the twentieth-century before the twentieth century's done?· Given the way in which the grant works, the national gallery is only able to buy works on instalments.· It had been suggested that the government buy the collection for a national gallery.· In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp, the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting. ► new · Fortunately, it wasn't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery.· They got an immediate, positive reaction to their new gallery.· Everything in its new gallery has been made carved painted by mentally disabled people.· The new gallery will host eight shows a year.· Is this an important factor for your new gallery?· In other museum news, a new gallery dedicated to supporters Margot and Hans Ries opens Jan. 24.· The new gallery will allow many more of the roughly 6,000 items owned by the museum to be shown.· But an architect friend offered me premises in Portland Mews, funnily enough just around the corner from our new gallery. ► public · They ran from the public gallery to help Mrs Hughes when she fainted.· As he left the dock he waved to friends and relatives who were in the public gallery.· We can consider solo exhibitions instead, in either public or commercial galleries.· A bullet-proof glass screen sealed the public gallery and everyone entering the building was subjected to a body search.· Scuffles broke out in the public gallery after victim Tony's relatives cheered at the sentences.· Friends and relatives in the public gallery clapped and cheered when Ian Ainsworth was found not guilty.· In the public gallery were some of those people who it's alledged were victims of Mr How's company. ► shooting · The skeleton of a Ferris wheel loomed; shooting galleries and hoopla stalls were being knocked together.· So you'd slip into a shooting gallery to test the dope.· Only the top half of her body was visible, and she resembled a moving target on a shooting gallery.· For those unmoved, the Ferris wheel spun its neon lights and the shooting galleries popped.· Adding to the noise and jollity were a shooting gallery and coconut shy.· And they're on hand to lend a hand in the air pistol shooting gallery. ► small · From the small gallery above the operating theatre the whole process was obscure, if sickeningly bloody, to the watching Cowley.· A small art gallery has opened, but the remainder of the space is still vacant.· The smaller second gallery has the atmosphere of a shrine.· Before he left for More it had opened as a small art gallery.· The smaller galleries could not accommodate these large wheels, and within the house floor space was not always available.· We opened a small gallery overlooking the roof tops of Sotheby's in 1976. ► upper · The latter has an upper gallery which goes round the whole court, providing impressive vistas through the traceried openings.· There is a high, upper gallery that encircles the inner courtyard of the main house.· Prepare the guards in the upper galleries.· I said while we were jogging around the upper running gallery of the main gym.· The upper windows and galleries were full enough, however, although the faces were more respectful and curious than ecstatic.· We stood on an upper gallery overlooking the main drawing room. NOUN► art · It's famous for royal palaces, wonderful art galleries, stunning architecture and even its seaside.· They had both worked at successful art galleries in Manhattan.· Quite nice. Art galleries and bookshops and things.· And the great Tretyakov art gallery may have its utilities shut off for nonpayment of bills.· They were partners in an art gallery that specialized in avant-garde paintings by young artists.· Also of interest is the surrounding town, full of antiques and art galleries and several interesting restaurants.· There is an art gallery in the foyer which hosts regular touring and locally produced exhibitions.· Like generations of art collectors before him, Thomas Baron enjoys visiting art galleries. ► hours · Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p. m. Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 7 p. m. Thursday.· Regular gallery hours are 2 to 4 p. m. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.· Regular gallery hours are 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday through Friday.· Regular gallery hours are 7: 30 a. m. to 7 p. m. daily.· Regular summer gallery hours are 5 to 7 p. m. Thursday, and 7 to 10 p. m. during Downtown Saturday Nights. ► owner · Every few years he was rediscovered by an enthusiastic critic or gallery owner, although the success never gelled.· Aimee was a gallery owner, Sommard a curator and museum director.· Patricia Sharp painted more than 30 new works for the occasion after an invitation by the gallery owner to lead the exhibition.· And at the same time on Wednesday, September 17, Jos Galvez, photographer and gallery owner, will discuss photojournalism.· The gallery was full and the gallery owner looked happier than when I had last seen him.· The gallery owner sighed when he saw us.· So the occasional gallery owner prepared to support a Black artist gets much credit in this show.· Obviously the gallery owner makes a calculated risk by devoting wall space entirely to the work of a single artist. ► picture · Two square halls would give the effect. externally. of solid massive buttresses, while internally they would serve as picture galleries.· What happens when the picture gallery begins to revolve?· I enter the town past the sawmill, which has now become a health shop and picture gallery.· However, I must warn you to be on your guard and to approach the picture gallery with caution.· Outside my line of vision lies a picture gallery of all her dead female relations of the Gittel line. ► press · At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks.· First stop, the Senate press gallery.· Forty years ago, female reporters were denied access to the congressional press galleries with the same excuse. ► space · Not having seen the exhibition previously I can not comment on how differing gallery spaces have contributed to the overall effect.· Of course, it helps that the actual La Jolla gallery space was reused from the earlier design.· In our present recession, we frequently see the gallery space being singled out for a cut and Watermans is no exception.· In addition 500 square metres of flexible gallery space will be created on the lower floor of the gallery.· Since gallery space was already in short supply, the connecting passage to the Sackler was recast as a subterranean exhibition hall. VERB► open · The flames were now extinguished, windows had been opened in the top gallery and the smoke was beginning to dissipate.· It was after their penultimate visit that Cigna had okayed opening the art gallery.· As normal he had opened the gallery, but when the first customer came in, he just could not concentrate.· Outside, I could hear doors opening on the gallery and running footsteps.· We opened a small gallery overlooking the roof tops of Sotheby's in 1976.· In early 1993 he will also open a second gallery in Cologne, at Zwirner's former space at Albertusstrasse 18. ► run · They ran from the public gallery to help Mrs Hughes when she fainted.· For four or five years, running the gallery virtually by himself, he showed only photography.· Dunbar was to run the art gallery attached to the shop, Miles would take care of the books.· The partnership runs the gallery, which it says is the first of its kind in the county.· He was already in Cork St. What was your early experience of running a gallery like?· So I hired him to run the art gallery.· I glimpsed Mathilda's white face then ran into the gallery, pushing open the door to the solar.· I said while we were jogging around the upper running gallery of the main gym. ► shoot · The sailors attacked stores owned by blacks and looted shooting galleries for rifles and ammunition. ► show · These illustrations then acted as reference material for large oil paintings which were shown in galleries.· The Toddler shows up at her gallery opening.· The original Deeds show the gallery.· Waid has been painting full time since 1980, and he shows at galleries in Scottsdale, Chicago and New York. 1a)a large building where people can see famous pieces of art: an exhibition of African art at the Hayward Gallery b)a small privately owned shop or studio where you can see and buy pieces of art2a)an upper floor or balcony built on an inner wall of a hall, theatre, or church, from which people can watch a performance, discussion etc: the public gallery in Congressin the gallery We could only afford seats up in the gallery. b)the gallery the people sitting in a gallery3play to the gallery to do or say something just because you think it will please people and make you popular4a level passage under the ground in a mine or cave → press gallery, shooting galleryCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + galleryan art gallery· a guide to the city's museums and art galleriesa picture/portrait gallery· The picture gallery is full of treasures.a private gallery (=owned by a private person)· The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States.the national gallery (=owned by the country)· Edinburgh has three national galleries.verbsvisit/go to a gallery· The children visited the gallery on a school trip.a painting hangs in a gallery· Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.a gallery is showing/exhibiting something· The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works.exhibit something in/at a gallery· It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery.gallery + NOUNgallery space (=area for displaying art)· She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology.
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