| 单词 | gallery |
| 释义 | gallery (once / 170 pages) 1n 2n A gallery is an area of a building that's usually long, narrow, and has a specific function. You might visit an art gallery to check out a row of paintings hung on its walls. There are a few kinds of galleries, but the first is a part of a house or building that's unusually long and narrow. A gallery also has some sort of purpose: in a theater, a gallery is a place where additional seats are located. A gallery is also somewhere art is shown and sold. Art galleries can be one room of a larger place, a series of rooms, or a whole building devoted to art. WORD FAMILYgallery: galleries USAGE EXAMPLESFour years ago, Ms. Bower and her husband built a 3,000-square-foot facility to house their workshops and a gallery where they sell their creations. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Intrepid to the galleries of the Brooklyn Museum and to dozens of more traditional spaces. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Stefan Kalmár is a veteran art industry and gallery insider and the new director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) Syn|Hypo|Hyper veranda, verandah lanai a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room porch a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance 2n narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade Hypo|Hyper amphitheater, amphitheatre a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) choir lofta gallery in a church occupied by the choir organ lofta gallery occupied by a church organ balcony a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet 3n a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) Hyper corridor an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it 4n a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose shooting gallery Hyper room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling 5n a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited Syn|Hypo|Hyper art gallery, picture gallery salon gallery where works of art can be displayed room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling 6n a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine 2Syn|Hyper drift, heading passageway a passage between rooms or between buildings n spectators at a golf or tennis match Hyper audience a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance |
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