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Corridor vs Gallery - What's the difference?

corridor | gallery |

As nouns the difference between corridor and gallery

is that corridor is a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see Wikipedia) while gallery is an institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.

corridor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors . Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
  • , section=chapter 1/1, title= Death Walks in Eastrepps , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}
  • A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
  • Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
  • Derived terms

    * the corridors of power *

    gallery

    Noun

    (galleries)
  • An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
  • An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
  • Uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
  • A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
  • as a whole, the spectators of an event.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Capello was missing his son's wedding in Milan to take charge – yet his reshaped England team gave him cause for a double celebration as they overturned the odds in front of a delighted Wembley gallery .}}
  • A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
  • a gallery of image thumbnails
    a clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor

    Derived terms

    * peanut gallery * rogues' gallery

    Anagrams

    * allergy * largely * regally