(n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not
(n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
(n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.
(n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
(n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
(n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
(n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
(n.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
(n.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Grant finished the manuscript in July 1885, it was rushed into galley proof.
(2) Don't just rely on Twitter or Facebook Ben Galley became a self-published author at 22 and is currently making a modest living selling his fantasy ebooks and offering "Shelf Help" , a consultancy for other aspiring authors (sessions via Skype, phone or face to face from £50 to £199).
(3) It gets even skinnier at the back, where the galley kitchen is a mere 62 inches, or 5ft 2 across, but despite its slender proportions, the 466sq ft property in Denmark Hill was put on the market for £450,000.
(4) Galley, who stood as a Tory candidate for Sunderland council in 2004, has not been charged, but he has been suspended from his Home Office job while the investigation carries on.
(5) The major art galley in central San Francisco that has shown Ferlinghetti's work for two decades is closing because it can't afford the new rent.
(6) Galley, who is now in hiding from journalists, was arrested on November 19.
(7) Profile: Christopher Galley Christopher Galley, 26, the junior Home Office civil servant at the centre of the Damian Green affair, stood as a Conservative council candidate in 2004 and unsuccessfully applied for a job with the party's immigration spokesman, it emerged.
(8) Spread may have been facilitated by the limited availability of toilet facilities for the galley crew.
(9) A junior Home Office official, Christopher Galley, was arrested on November 18 in relation to the same alleged offences as Green, and he was released on bail.
(10) Open daily 11.30am-10pm The Cuban Sandwich Factory Facebook Twitter Pinterest This Cuban-owned joint is alive with Latin music and rapid-fire Spanish instructions issuing from its small galley kitchen, and its food (mainly pressed, toasted Cuban sandwiches) is equally vibrant.
(11) Photograph: PR The forward galley’s catering facilities have wine glasses for an in-flight tipple while the bathroom includes a shower and a vacuum lavatory.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Gulfstream jet’s galley.
(13) The findings so far from Galley's ongoing research into gender biases in social work are far from simple.
(14) There's a welcome revival happening on the indie scene with literary platforms such as Brixton Bookjam , Black Book Swap and Words of Colour , as well as publishing houses And Other Stories, Galley Beggar Press, Jacaranda Books, and Unbound, whose author Paul Kingsnorth receives a Booker nod for The Wake .
(15) The premier, said Khodorkovsky, was helmsman of a galley which "sails right over people's destinies" and "over which, more and more, the citizens of Russia seem to see a black pirate flag flying".
(16) I always make sure I can see the Twitter screen on my laptop when I am writing,” self-publishing author Ben Galley declares, just one of an army of unpaid e-authors who rise at dawn to promote themselves on social media before their paid job.
(17) He said yesterday: "The two men I shared a cabin with already knew, the whole galley knew.
(18) Unlike many authors, Galley stays online even when he is writing.
(19) David Galley and Margarete Parrish will be discussing some of the implications for academics and social work practitioners during their presentation at the Joint Social Work and Social Education conference .
(20) From 17 or 18, to 20 I was also the cook on the boat, making meals on the stove in a little galley – lasagnes, roasts and spaghetti bolognese.
Mezzanine
Definition:
(n.) Same as Entresol.
(n.) A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The studio flat in Kentish Town, north London, has a "mezzanine-style" sleeping area.
(2) From the first mezzanine, the timing is off, the jokes are awkward, the delivery is wooden.
(3) He explains that, as a resident of the first mezzanine, I am not permitted to walk downstairs and potentially bother the A-list.
(4) Photograph: Supplied Chris York, who was sitting in the mezzanine section on 2 July, recounted what happened on his Facebook page, and news of the audience member’s behavior was getting wider attention on Tuesday.
(5) Jeff Bridges's standing ovation reaches all the way to the top mezzanine.
(6) A search of rental websites yielded several examples of rooms where a "mezzanine sleeping area" had been erected - in practice a large shelf, usually little more than a metre from the ceiling, with room for a mattress – making the room large enough to let to a couple.
(7) Steyer’s group hired a mezzanine in Galt House hotel – the same facility rented by Paul on the banks of the Ohio river – to hang banners reading: “Senator Paul, Young Voters Won’t Be Fooled.” Meanwhile, a conservative nonprofit unveiled a of TV ad railing against Paul over his support for nuclear negotiations with Iran.
(8) Kathryn Bigelow's standing ovation covers the entire hall except, for some reason, the top right of the first mezzanine, where I am sitting, where we remain sitting and clap politely.
(9) We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
(10) Bayswater £802 pcm Bayswater flat, £802 pcm "A charming self-contained double studio with mezzanine sleeping gallery" and a "cute open plan kitchenette, cushy sofa and dining table", says the agent of this studio flat near Bayswater tube station.
(11) Every surface is covered in primary-coloured splodgy paintings, there are giant papier-mache objects leaning against walls and a small spiral staircase leads to a beanbag-covered mezzanine whose function I can only guess to be "nap time".
(12) By opening them up, and creating a new mezzanine level, the gallery has created a spectacular new space that is showered in daylight.
(13) Cadence Performance, Crystal Palace, London Relaunched this January with a new mezzanine floor for its cycling fitness studio, Cadence is an all-in-one venue for people who take their cycling, fitness and gear seriously.
(14) The most conservative total occupational-dose-equivalent rate in the center of the ALS mezzanine, 39 m from the ALS center, was found to be 1.14 X 10(-3) Sv y-1 per 2000-h "occupational" year, and the total environmental-dose-equivalent rate at the ALS boundary, 125 m from the ALS center, was found to be 3.02 X 10(-4) Sv y-1 per 8760-h calendar year.
(15) The Kodak Theatre has a ground floor and, above that, three mezzanines.
(16) I decide that I will persuade the inhabitants of the mezzanines to rise up as one and to storm the stairs, like in Titanic.
(17) A mysterious sleight of hand with the internal layout, using staggered “mezzanines” around a central atrium, means the building can claim to be just one storey tall – despite rising 50 metres into the air.
(18) He lives in a mezzanine apartment full of technology and toys in a 101-year-old warehouse – his studio is an identical one next door – in the endless light-industrial sprawl of downtown Los Angeles, now in the first throes of gentrification.
(19) Will’s so smooth he still listens to Sade and has a mezzanine level in his flat.
(20) But even though this "mezzanine-style sleeping area" seems best suited to a rather narrow rental market of petite Cirque du Soleil performers, lettings agent Alex Marks said it had received 50 to 60 inquiries about the property, due to its sought-after location half a mile from trendy Kentish Town in north London .