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Mart vs Mall - What's the difference?

mart | mall |

As nouns the difference between mart and mall

is that mart is a market while mall is a large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

As verbs the difference between mart and mall

is that mart is to buy or sell in, or as in a mart while mall is to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.

mart

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately from (etyl) mercatus; see market.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A market.
  • * (William Cowper)
    • Where has commerce such a mart as London?
  • (obsolete) A bargain.
  • * 1616 ,
    • Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.
  • (obsolete) To traffic.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) Mars (stem Mart- ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mart — The god .
  • (obsolete) Battle; contest.

    • Anagrams

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    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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