What's the difference between mall and plaza?

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.

Plaza


Definition:

  • (n.) A public square in a city or town.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following year, JFK was killed in Dealey Plaza, becoming the lost father to a grieving nation.
  • (2) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
  • (3) "Anniversaries should be to celebrate good things, not something like Rana Plaza."
  • (4) After years of foot dragging, three global agreements have emerged in an attempt to improve matters since the Rana Plaza tragedy in April.
  • (5) WEEKEND GETAWAY Côte d'Azur TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The spring tasting menu at Alain Ducasse's restaurant at the Plaza Athénée will set you back €360 ($520).
  • (6) Last year retailers sourcing garments from Bangladesh faced similar calls to quit the country following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
  • (7) Women also make up the majority of the 5,000 people – disabled survivors and families of victims – who are still owed compensation by the brands that used Rana Plaza.
  • (8) This week, another UK event will focus on those left in poverty by Rana Plaza.
  • (9) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
  • (10) Clothing retailers River Island and Matalan have signed up to a factory safety deal in Bangladesh after pressure from campaigners in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,000 factory workers.
  • (11) Many debate where the blame lies for tragedies such as Rana Plaza, and argue over who has the responsibility to prevent them in the future.
  • (12) Women whose children and grandchildren had disappeared organized themselves as Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to search for their missing loved ones.
  • (13) At about 10.30pm last night we received multiple calls about shots being fired from inside the plaza,” police chief John Mina told reporters.
  • (14) This is why it’s so important to name those responsible and not leave it as if this is an a-historic massacre.” Zedconte, 26, works as a consultant in Guadalajara Protest reach Plaza de la Liberacion in Guadalajara Protestors sit around an improvised podium where student victims and missing names where remembered.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shahorbanu, whose son Siddique was killed in the Rana Plaza collapse.
  • (16) On Saturday afternoons there is outdoor dancing at nearby Plaza de Danzón.
  • (17) The independent Plaza Art Cinema is a favourite of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
  • (18) She said Trump made advances on her, including groping her under the table during a dinner the following night at the Plaza Hotel.
  • (19) Two years after Rana Plaza, have conditions approved in Bangladesh’s factories?
  • (20) Prior to Rana Plaza there had already been a string of disasters in Bangladesh’s garment industry, culminating in the Tazreen factory fire that killed 112 people six months earlier.

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