Mall vs Gallery - What's the difference?

mall | gallery |


As nouns the difference between mall and gallery

is that mall is trunk, large suitcase while gallery is an institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.

mall

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
  • (Addison)
  • A heavy blow.
  • (Spenser)
  • An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.
  • (Cotton)
  • A place where the game of mall was played.
  • A public walk; a level shaded walk.
  • * Southey
  • Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall .
  • (US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  • pedestrian mall
  • * 2002 , Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t , page 179,
  • America?s first pedestrianized shopping mall' opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian ' malls , it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
  • An enclosed shopping centre.
  • * 2004 , Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well , unnumbered page,
  • Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America?s enclosed shopping malls .
  • * 2010 , Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies , unnumbered page,
  • In addition to Web site kits, ISPs, and businesses that specialize in Web hosting, online shopping malls provide another form of Web hosting.

    Derived terms

    * mallcore * mallgoth * mall rat * shopping mall

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.
  • To build up with the development of shopping malls.
  • (informal) To shop at the mall.
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    gallery

    Noun

    (galleries)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
  • a gallery of image thumbnails
    a clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor

    Derived terms

    * peanut gallery * rogues' gallery

    Anagrams

    * allergy * largely * regally