An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
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galleys
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for galleys.
Editorial note
Somewhere along the line between drafts and manuscripts and galleys and first run publishing, the collection becomes real.
Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of galleys gathered in one view.
A surname.
(nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for galleys.
noun
An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
noun
A surname.
noun
(nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
noun
(British) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
Example sentences
Somewhere along the line between drafts and manuscripts and galleys and first run publishing, the collection becomes real.
For the first time, you could get complete pages (as opposed to unpaginated galleys) out of high-end imagesetters.
It depends on how easily accessible the Gerald R Ford class galleys are to the exterior of the ship.
Early incidents had stories of galleys using non-proportional font forced to change to proportional font simply due to aesthetics.
They need people working in their galleys as well, and you'll have no bills to pay.
Decide what cabin layout you need (all economoy?, how many rows, how many galleys etc.).
They stock two separate galleys for food preparation with supplies for 2000+ meals as well as weeks worth of fresh water.
If it's an operator problem, consider that the Gerald R Ford class now only has 2 galleys (one gets used only when an air wing is present) down from 5 galleys on the Nimitz class.
Dave Langford put something in Ansible recently about how on the galleys of my novel Neverwhere someone Found-and-Replaced all the flats to apartments.
These run submerged/immersed in engine oil, which tends to degrade the belt, often resulting in clogged oil pickups, galleys, etc.
They stripped everything out of the aircraft - seats, galleys, everything.
Increased trade happened through massive wind-powered ships, not slave galleys.
Quote examples
My impressions are that (excluding galleys) life conditions on board had to be "good enough" and sailors (and soldiers) would openly complain when the small privileges of their category were not upheld, like bigger rations for gunners, alcohol distribution etc.
Actually for TeX it is “modern math typesetting is ugly”: In the late 1970s, Donald Knuth was revising the second volume of his multivolume magnum opus The Art of Computer Programming, got the galleys, looked at them, and said (approximately) "blecch"!
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use galleys in a sentence?
Somewhere along the line between drafts and manuscripts and galleys and first run publishing, the collection becomes real.
What does galleys mean?
An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
What part of speech is galleys?
galleys is commonly used as noun.