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Alley vs Galley - What's the difference?

alley | galley |

As nouns the difference between alley and galley

is that alley is a narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings while galley is a long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.

alley

English

(wikipedia alley)

Etymology 1

(etyl) and (etyl) alee, feminine of .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
  • The parking lot to my friend's apartment building is in the alley .
  • (baseball) The area between the outfielders, the gap.
  • He hit one deep into the alley .
  • (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played; bowling alley.
  • (tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
  • A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
  • * Milton
  • I know each lane and every alley green.
  • A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
  • (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
  • The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
  • Derived terms
    * alleyway * up someone's alley

    See also

    * alleyway * bunnyrun * gennel, ginnel, gunnel, jennel * jitty * lane * passage * snicket * wynd

    Etymology 2

    Diminutive of (alabaster).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A glass marble or taw.
  • Anagrams

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    galley

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
  • (British) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
  • (nautical) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
  • (nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
  • An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
  • (printing) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
  • (printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
  • Derived terms

    * galleass * galley slave * galley-worm * galliot

    See also

    * bireme * trireme * quadrireme * unireme/monoreme/penteconter * quinquereme/pentere * polyreme