What's the difference between kiosk and shop?

Kiosk


Definition:

  • (n.) A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
  • (2) Instead of medicine, all the doctors could offer were cartons of fruit juice bought en masse from a nearby kiosk.
  • (3) Small crowds gathered outside kiosks to gaze at the displays of newspapers that had sold out.
  • (4) Yes, definitely – but somehow, the best ones are from kiosks.
  • (5) After his kiosk burned down last year, Khalid’s father had given him the microbus to allow him to make a living driving people around.
  • (6) Each wing has an electronic kiosk, allowing prisoners to book their own visits, make medical appointments, buy food and an approved list of products from Argos, freeing staff (who would otherwise be doing this for them) to do other things.
  • (7) Penbryn beach – which is completely devoid of kiosks, buildings or beach huts – featured in the Bond film Die Another Day.
  • (8) The discount, will also be available in its cafes and petrol-station kiosks, but not on online shopping.
  • (9) It reports that Greek unions plan to bring much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill, adding: Most business and public sector activity is expected to grind to a halt during the 24-hour strike called by the ADEDY and GSEE unions, with newspaper kiosk owners and air traffic controllers among various groups joining the protest.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alexis Tsipars and leader of Independent Greeks Panos Kammenos wave to supporters at the pre-election kiosk of the party in Athens.
  • (11) KS As I stand on El Prado, the main road going through the centre of the city, I can see some very young children cleaning car windows, selling sweets, running kiosks, and many of them are working in groups.
  • (12) "It's a very costly action but I don't think they had a choice if they want to maintain the tourism industry and the security of the Kenyan people," said Ceaser Ndungu, a DVD seller with a kiosk in Westlands.
  • (13) There are no restaurants or kiosks at either beach so remember to take food and water with you.
  • (14) We’re still waiting for someone to sponsor us to heat the pool so we can open in winter,” says co-founder Daniel Lente, who gives me a tour of the area, which includes a cocktail bar, Soul Food kiosk, beer garden and large concert and club space.
  • (15) The glassy facade of the new, as-yet unopened, airport terminal; the extra kiosks on the streets selling snacks and colourful toys.
  • (16) The beach has all the facilities you'll need (toilets, lifeguards, a kiosk etc) but none of the hassle of more developed beaches.
  • (17) The day's takings from his kiosk had been stolen, and five days later he died of his injuries.
  • (18) I drink Red Bull so that I can read on long flights,” he said in the lounge, as a Greek businessman who owned restaurants in Madrid insisted on paying for our cafe freddo at the coffee kiosk and enthused about the changes coming to both countries.
  • (19) Savings come mainly from replacing some staff with self-service kiosks,” says the NAO report.
  • (20) Smoke is rising over parts of the city, after one demonstrator set light to a bin spyros gkelis (@northaura) Fire also in a garbage bin and a kiosk at #syntagma sq.

Shop


Definition:

  • () imp. of Shape. Shaped.
  • (n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
  • (n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
  • (v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (3) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (4) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
  • (5) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (6) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
  • (7) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (8) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (9) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
  • (10) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
  • (11) Although 400 positions have been saved , a further 425 shop workers and head office staff have definitely lost their jobs.
  • (12) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (13) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (14) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
  • (15) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (16) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
  • (17) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
  • (18) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
  • (19) To mark World Aids Day, THT is opening a charity shop in Soho Estates’ Walkers Court development in central Soho.
  • (20) It adds that the number of deals signed in relation to betting shops alone in 2012-13 was 77% greater than the number signed in in 2007-08.