📖 Definitions of "Local"
- 1
A person who lives near a given place.
"It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
- 2
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
"I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
- 3
A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
"The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."
- 4
One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
"I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."
- 1
From or in a nearby location.
"We prefer local produce."
- 2
(of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- 3
(of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
- 4
Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
"The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia."
- 1
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
"It's never been more important to buy local."
- 1
An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
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