What's the difference between emporium and mall?

Emporium


Definition:

  • (n.) A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.
  • (n.) The brain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With over 50,000 apps and more than 1bn downloads, it is hardly surprising that Blackberry, Nokia, Microsoft and Google have all now jumped on the app emporium bandwagon.
  • (2) Updated at 5.23pm BST 2.20pm BST Right, I have been unchained from the desk and I am going to use this freedom to escape from the building and visit the local sandwich emporium for some much-needed nourishment.
  • (3) It really is an emporium of everything inspirational.
  • (4) The suspected mastermind of the online drug emporium Silk Road is facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison after a jury returned a guilty verdict at the end of a four-week trial that revealed a plethora of detail about US investigations into the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.
  • (5) This brings you past The Emporium, bristling with superior souvenirs, many designed by local artists, such as Zoe Murphy and Keith Brymer Jones .
  • (6) "I offer Carl Zimmer's emporium of science tattoos ."
  • (7) A blue collar, white collar, no collar sort of place where couture punk, vintage clothes stores and mid-century modern furniture emporiums can be found.
  • (8) So when gobby northern powerhouse Sarah-Lou went into soap labour five weeks early in Tracy’s flower emporium, Preston’s Petals, she was horrified to find herself with only Todd and The Barlow on hand.
  • (9) A recent series of tornados cut a path of destruction a mile wide for greater than 40 miles (64 km), killed 20 people, and caused several hundred casualities on the evening of April 26, 1991, in Tornado Alley, which runs from the northern border of Oklahoma through southern Kansas past Wichita toward Emporium, Kansas.
  • (10) Alighting from Bengal in 1857, the tiger was the latest exotic addition to Charles Jamrach’s Animal Emporium on the deathly Ratcliffe Highway.
  • (11) Artisan makers are popping up all over the country: Gelupo , Sorbitium Ices and La Grotta Ices in London, Ginger's Comfort Emporium in Manchester and Affogato in Edinburgh being among the more ambitious.
  • (12) Having been sent the script for Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium on the Thursday, she knew immediately it was a goodie.
  • (13) As it happens, they are all the precise opposite of those things, which is just as well, as Elko is a small town, and it quickly becomes impossible to walk the few blocks between Biltoki, Stockmen's, the Folklife Center, the spectacular cowboy-wear emporium of JM Capriola (where you can eavesdrop on the involved process that is buying a hat) and the rejuvenating oasis of Cowboy Joe's coffee shop, without someone hailing you by name.
  • (14) "What has running government got to do with buying pretty frocks and underwear, which is the basis of a high street emporium?"
  • (15) Seven clean and well-lit floors of specialist shops, including the impressive K-Books manga emporium, anime figure merchants galore, used goods, replica firearms, even a store dedicated to yo-yos.
  • (16) In the 90s, fashion students and wannabe YBAs took over the northern end of the street, turning its former brewery buildings into vintage clothes emporiums and bars.
  • (17) The ASA banned the ads, which were created by UK agency Big Al's Creative Emporium, and ordered JTI not to make the assertions in future campaigns.
  • (18) And independent online retailers on the UK mainland have suffered as well as the high street: three years ago, Richard Allen was forced to shut The Freak Emporium , his British-based online business, because, he says, of the VAT loophole.
  • (19) One souvenir emporium has come up with a radical new city mascot, Melon Bear, whose aggressive snarl and bulging veins push the boundaries of cute into the realm of the creepy.
  • (20) It's 1974, I'm sitting across the street from Burberry's Haymarket emporium in London watching a gaggle of tourists come out of the store, each wearing the same dark blue raincoat and distinctive Burberry scarf .

Mall


Definition:

  • (n.) A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
  • (n.) A heavy blow.
  • (n.) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
  • (n.) A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A court of justice.
  • (n.) A place where justice is administered.
  • (n.) A place where public meetings are held.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
  • (2) Locations that include the King of Prussia mall near Philadelphia, which with more than 400 stores is one of the biggest in US, and the Staten Island mall.
  • (3) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
  • (4) Pearson's father, a retired air pilot, has been killed by a deranged mental patient who opened fire, apparently at random, on the crowds shopping at the Metro-Centre, a massive mall in the middle of this town.
  • (5) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
  • (6) An appropriate policing plan will be in place throughout the duration of the visit.” It added that a planned demonstration and a counter demonstration are due to take place near the George VI memorial in St James’s Park, north of the Mall, between 11am and 1pm on Tuesday.
  • (7) My colleague Chris McGreal reports from the Mall: Large numbers of people leaving because the crowd is so large they can't hear.
  • (8) Currently, the US contains around 1,500 of the expansive “malls” of suburban consumer lore.
  • (9) An hour later, Corbyn, looking cheerful and well-rested, makes his way with difficulty by bicycle through the crowds in the Mall to the palace, where he is to be anointed.
  • (10) It wasn’t too long ago that I was sitting inside a tent with newfound friends, fasting on the National Mall and feeling a profound hunger – literally, yes, but also a hunger within, to see an end to the misery endured by those who come to our country to escape poverty and violence in search of a bright future for their families.
  • (11) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
  • (12) Before Thursday’s attack, al-Shabaab’s highest profile atrocity had been the four-day siege of the Westgate mall in Nairobi in September 2013 that left 67 dead.
  • (13) A few hours after leaving the mall, Fournier was at home watching a movie with her family when she went into cardiac arrest and fell unconscious.
  • (14) Birger Malling (1884-1989) was professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oslo from 1939 to 1954.
  • (15) National Wholesale Liquidators, a warehouse store, sprawls along the edge of Bel-Air mall on the corner of a road lined with boarded-up houses, empty lots and abandoned stores - a burned-out carcass where the heart of a community once beat.
  • (16) While Celtic are in Astana I would recommend them checking out the shopping mall shaped like a yurt."
  • (17) Photograph: Alamy Now, among the juniper trees, you can find strip-malls full of crystal shops, aura-reading stations and psychics.
  • (18) As the sinking continues, the danger of a catastrophic flood grows The problem is exacerbated by the explosion of new apartment blocks, shopping malls and even government offices, which – despite official restrictions on groundwater extraction – not only draw water from this porous ground but also add to the weight compacting it.
  • (19) A number of major roads, shopping malls and bridges around the Iraqi capital were also closed for fear of follow-up attacks.
  • (20) Police closed a stretch of Toronto's subway system along the protest route, and the largest shopping mall closed after the protest began to turn violent.

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