English Dictionary
◊ GALLERY
gallery
n 1: spectators at a golf or tennis match
2: a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly
enclosed) [syn: {veranda}, {verandah}]
3: a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
[syn: {art gallery}, {picture gallery}]
4: a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose;
"shooting gallery"
5: a covered passageway especially one extending along the wall
of a building and supported with arches or columns
6: narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the
interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
7: (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a
mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: {drift},
{heading}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN GILLEY?
gilley
({Usenet}) The unit of analogical bogosity.
According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was
"the act of bogotoficiously comparing the shutting down of
1000 machines for a day with the killing of one person". The
milligilley has been found to suffice for most normal
conversational exchanges.
(1995-03-17)