Mall vs Park - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between mall and park

is that mall is a large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul while park is an area of land set aside for environment preservation and/or informal recreation.

As verbs the difference between mall and park

is that mall is to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise while park is to bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.

As a proper noun Park is

{{surname|from=Korean}}, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (박, 朴). The third most common Korean surname.

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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park

English

Noun

(en noun)

An area of land set aside for environment preservation and/or informal recreation.

# A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.

#* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.

# A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation

#* , chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park , very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.}}

#* 1994 , Robert Ferro,The Blue Star :

I roamed the streets and parks , as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…

# An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.

# (US) A grassy basin surrounded by mountains.

An area used for serious organized purposes.

# (rfc-sense) A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together.

# A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

# An area zoned for a particular (industrial or technological) purpose.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}

# (soccer) A pitch; the area on which a match is played.

#* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC

, title= Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool , passage=But because of their dominance in the middle of the park and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.}}

(UK) An inventory of matériel.

(Australia, NZ) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.

* 2003 , “Johnny”, Melbourne Blackout'', in Sleazegrinder (editor), ''Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll?s Frontline , page 174,

We got to the 9^th Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro?s car right out the front.

* 2010 , Sandy Curtis, Dangerous Deception , Clan Destine Press, Australia, unnumbered page,

Once they?d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found a park relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn?t want to be delayed.

* 2011 , Antonia Magee, The Property Diaries: A Story of Buying a House, Finding a Man and Making a Home … All on a Single Income! , John Wiley & Sons Australia, unnumbered page,

We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.

Antonyms

* (a piece of ground in or near a city) building, skyscraper, street

Synonyms

* (a piece of ground in or near a city) courtyard, garden, plaza

Derived terms

* amusement park * ballpark * car park * national park * parkade * skatepark * theme park * tank park

References

* “Park” in James F. Dunnigan and Albert Nofi (1992), Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know , Harper, ISBN 978-0688112707, p 28. *

Verb

(en verb)

To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.

You can park the car in front of the house.

I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.

(informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.

Let's park that until next week's meeting.

To bring together in a park, or compact body.

To enclose in a park, or as in a park.

How are we parked , and bounded in a pale. — Shakespeare.

(baseball) To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.

He really parked that one.

(slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle.

They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked .

(transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.

He came in and parked himself in our living room.

Park your bags in the hall.

(finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.

We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.

(Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See )

Antonyms

(bring to a halt) (l)