Orlando Sentinel: Theme Park Rangers Radar: Swig of Figment smoothie, sound of ‘Star Wars,’ Animal Kingdom parking (again)
This week’s Theme Park Rangers Radar scampers across Walt Disney World to meet Figment for a drink, to name that tune at Hollywood Studios and to ponder the future in the parking lot of Animal Kingdom ...
Theme Park Rangers Radar: Swig of Figment smoothie, sound of ‘Star Wars,’ Animal Kingdom parking (again)
The driver will wait for us in/at the parking lot. All I know is that in the US, the 99.9999% assumption would be that the driver is waiting in the vehicle. If he's not, then that would normally need a special explanation. And there isn't one here. So if the vehicle is in the parking lot, he is in the parking lot, by extension.
A parking space is a space which is used for parking. Space is countable in this usage, and parking is being used as an adjective.
The bookstore is very big and there is a parking lot/space/place beside it. Do a parking lot, space, and place refer to the same thing? And which should I use here? Thanks.
The term 'car park' is derived from the military expression 'artillery park', which was a field or open space where guns were ranged. 'Car park' covers any place specifically set aside for cars to be left temporarily. It is a broader term than 'parking lot'. 'Car park' includes underground and multi-storey car parks, neither of which could be described as a 'parking lot'. Another point is that ...
To generalise, I think of 'to pull up' as simply meaning 'to stop', whereas "pull in" gives me the sense of the vehicle either stopping close to the edge of the road, or even moving into a special "parking space", such as a bus stop, at the side of the road.