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Mall vs Shopping - What's the difference?

mall | shopping |

As nouns the difference between mall and shopping

is that mall is trunk, large suitcase while shopping is (uncountable) searching for or buying goods or services.

As a verb shopping is

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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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    shopping

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • (uncountable) Searching for or buying goods or services.
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  • (uncountable) Recently bought goods.
  • (countable, South America) A shopping center.
  • * 2013 , Karen Keller, Portuguese For Dummies (page 131)
  • In Brazil, shoppings are more associated with the middle and upper classes.

    Usage notes

    In English, it is common to say do the shopping'' or ''go shopping . See

    Derived terms

    * home shopping * shopping bag * shopping basket * shopping bot * shopping cart * shopping center * shopping centre * shopping list * shopping mall * shopping trolley * window shopping

    Anagrams

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