Mall vs Shopping - What's the difference?
mall | shopping |
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
A heavy blow.
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.
A place where the game of mall was played.
A public walk; a level shaded walk.
* Southey
(US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
* 2002 , Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t ,
An enclosed shopping centre.
* 2004 , Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well ,
* 2010 , Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies ,
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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(uncountable) Searching for or buying goods or services.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (uncountable) Recently bought goods.
(countable, South America) A shopping center.
* 2013 , Karen Keller, Portuguese For Dummies (page 131)
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
.mall
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Addison)
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- (Cotton)
- 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 .
- pedestrian mall
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- 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.
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- 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 .
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- 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 mallVerb
(en verb)shopping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
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- In Brazil, shoppings are more associated with the middle and upper classes.