Arcade vs. Mall — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Arcade and Mall
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Arcade
To provide with or form into an arcade
Closed off and arcaded the narrow street.
Mall
A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways.
Arcade
A series of arches supported by columns, piers, or pillars, either freestanding or attached to a wall to form a gallery.
Mall
A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles.
Arcade
A series of arches employed for decorative purposes.
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Mall
A shady public walk or promenade.
Arcade
A roofed passageway or lane, especially one with shops on one or both sides.
Mall
Chiefly Upstate New York See median.
Arcade
A commercial establishment featuring an array of large mechanical or electronic games, such as pinball machines or video games, that charge players money before each game.
Mall
A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
Arcade
A section within another establishment, as at a bowling alley or movie theater, that features such games.
Mall
An enclosed shopping centre.
Arcade
(architecture) A row of arches.
Mall
(obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
Arcade
(architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
Mall
A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
Arcade
An establishment that runs coin-operated games.
Mall
A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
Arcade
(transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
Mall
(obsolete) The game of polo.
Arcade
A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.
Mall
(obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
Arcade
An arched or covered passageway or avenue.
Mall
To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
Arcade
A covered passageway; often between streets with shops or stalls
Mall
To build up with the development of shopping malls
Arcade
A structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns
Mall
(informal) to shop at the mall
Mall
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
Mall
A heavy blow.
Mall
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
Mall
A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
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.
Mall
Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.
Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased.
Mall
A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians; as, to gather near the Washington monument on the mall in Washington.
Mall
The paved or grassy strip between two roadways.
Mall
A shopping area with multiple shops and a concourse for predominantly or exclusively pedestrian use; in cities the concourse is usually a city street which may be temporarily or permamently closed to motor vehicles; in suburban areas, a mall is often located on a convenient highway, may be large, contained in one building or in multiple buildings connected by (usually covered) walkways. Also called shopping mall
Mall
To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
Mall
A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
Mall
Mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace;
A good plaza should have a movie house
They spent their weekends at the local malls
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