Myall vs Mall - What's the difference?
myall | mall |
(obsolete, Australian Aboriginal) A stranger; an ignorant person.
(Australia) An Aborigine living according to tradition and in a traditional way.
Any of various Australian acacias, especially the (weeping myall), , or the wood of such trees.
* 1859 , , journal entry, Third Expedition (In the vicinity of Lake Torrens'', ''Explorations in Australia - The Journals of John McDouall Stuart , Echo Library, 2006,
* 1968 , Thomas H. Everett, Living Trees of the World ,
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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As nouns the difference between myall and mall
is that myall is a stranger; an ignorant person while mall is a large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.As a verb mall is
to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.myall
English
(wikipedia myall)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mayal, (miyal).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Aboriginal, perhaps a transferrative use of Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)page 57,
- Friday, 30th December, Hanson Range.Changed our course to a very prominent hill (which I have named Mount Arthur) bearing 275 degrees, and after crossing two small myall' creeks and a stony plain with salt bush and grass, at ten miles we struck a large ' myall and gum creek, coming from the north-west, with some very deep channels.
page 185,
- The durable, dark-colored wood of the coast myall or mountain brigalow (A. glaucescens ) has been likened to that of English walnut.
mall
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Addison)
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- 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.