Gallery vs. Triforium — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gallery and Triforium
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Gallery
A room or building for the display or sale of works of art
The National Gallery
An art gallery
Triforium
A triforium is an interior gallery, opening onto the tall central space of a building at an upper level. In a church, it opens onto the nave from above the side aisles; it may occur at the level of the clerestory windows, or it may be located as a separate level below the clerestory.
Gallery
A balcony or upper floor projecting from an interior back or side wall of a hall or church, providing space for an audience or musicians
In the minstrels' gallery, a string orchestra plays themes from film soundtracks
Triforium
An arcaded gallery above the side-aisle arches and below the clerestory of a church.
Gallery
A long room or passage, typically one that is partly open at the side to form a portico or colonnade.
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Triforium
(architecture) The gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church.
Gallery
A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
Triforium
The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.
Gallery
A long enclosed passage, such as a hallway or corridor.
Gallery
A narrow balcony, usually having a railing or balustrade, along the outside of a building.
Gallery
A projecting or recessed passageway along an upper story on the interior or exterior of a large building, generally marked by a colonnade or arcade.
Gallery
Such a passageway situated over the aisle of a church and opening onto the nave. Also called tribune2.
Gallery
Southwestern Gulf States See veranda.
Gallery
An upper section, often with a sloping floor, projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater or an auditorium to provide additional seating.
Gallery
The seats in such a section, usually cheaper than those on the main floor.
Gallery
The cheapest seats in a theater, generally those of the uppermost gallery.
Gallery
The audience occupying a gallery or cheap section of a theater.
Gallery
A large audience or group of spectators, as at a tennis or golf match.
Gallery
The general public, usually considered as exemplifying a lack of discrimination or sophistication
Accused the administration of playing to the gallery on the defense issue.
Gallery
A building, room, or website for the exhibition of artistic work.
Gallery
An establishment that displays and sells works of art.
Gallery
A photographer's studio.
Gallery
A collection; an assortment
The trial featured a gallery of famous and flamboyant witnesses.
Gallery
An underground tunnel or passageway, as in a cave or one dug for military or mining purposes.
Gallery
A tunnel or series of tunnels made by an animal.
Gallery
(Nautical) A platform or balcony at the stern or quarters of some early sailing ships.
Gallery
A decorative upright trimming or molding along the edge of a table top, tray, or shelf.
Gallery
An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
Gallery
An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
Gallery
The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
Gallery
The spectators of an event, collectively.
Gallery
(legal) The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
Gallery
A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
Gallery
(computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
A gallery of image thumbnails
A clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor
Gallery
(fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
Gallery
(mining) A level or drive in a mine.
Gallery
(automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
Gallery
(television) The production control room.
Gallery
A part of a monocle, a projection off the ring holding the lens, which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
Gallery
(entomology) The boring trails produced by an insector only beetles? in wood.
Beetle gallery
Gallery
(Trinidad and Tobago) To show off.
Gallery
A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
Gallery
A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
Gallery
A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; - sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
Gallery
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, - seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
Gallery
Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
Gallery
A working drift or level.
Gallery
Spectators at a golf or tennis match
Gallery
A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
Gallery
A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
Gallery
A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose;
Shooting gallery
Gallery
A covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
Gallery
Narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
Gallery
A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine;
They dug a drift parallel with the vein
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