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Arcade vs. Mall — What's the Difference?

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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