Showroom vs Gallery - What's the difference?
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A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.
(dated) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.
To inspect merchandise in a physical store, then purchase the identical product from an online merchant; to use a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant.
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.
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As nouns the difference between showroom and gallery
is that showroom is a room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products while gallery is an institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.As a verb showroom
is to inspect merchandise in a physical store, then purchase the identical product from an online merchant; to use a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant.showroom
English
(wikipedia showroom)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(showrooming) (en verb)- This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.
Usage notes
Especially used in nominalized form showrooming.gallery
English
(wikipedia gallery)Noun
(galleries)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 .}}
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