Local vs. Region

Local and Region Definitions
Local
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular place
A local custom.
The local slang.
Region
A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space
The upper regions of the atmosphere.
Local
Of or relating to a city, town, or district rather than a larger area
State and local government.
Region
A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic
The coastal region.
The region of storm damage.
Local
Not broad or general; not widespread
Local outbreaks of flu.
Region
A bioregion.
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Local
Of or affecting a specific part of the body
A local infection.
Region
A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands
The Osaka region.
Local
Making all possible or scheduled stops on a route; not express
A local train.
Region
An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries
The abdominal region.
Local
A public conveyance that makes several intermediate stops before the final destination is reached
Changed trains to a local.
Region
An area of interest or activity; a sphere
The region of gender studies.
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Local
A local chapter or branch of an organization, especially of a labor union.
Region
An approximate degree or amount
Costs in the region of one billion dollars.
Local
A local anesthetic.
Region
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
The equatorial regions
The temperate regions
The polar regions
The upper regions of the atmosphere
Local
(Informal) A person from a particular locality.
Region
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
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Local
From or in a nearby location.
We prefer local produce.
Region
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
Local
Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
Local disk drive
Local file
The panel shows both local and remote sites.
Region
An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
Local
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Region
A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
Local
Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
Region
(Ontario) regional municipality
Local
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
Local lesion
The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
Region
Ellipsis of administrative region
Local
Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
Region
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
Local
A person who lives near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
Region
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
The abdominal regions
Local
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
Region
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
Local
(rail transport) local train
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
Region
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
Local
(British) 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.
Region
One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world,Or unknown region.
Local
(programming) A locally scoped identifier.
Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.
Region
Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis.
Local
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Region
The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
Anon the dreadful thunderDoth rend the region.
Local
Clipping of local anesthetic
Region
The inhabitants of a district.
Local
(finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
Region
Place; rank; station.
He is of too high a region.
Local
A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
Region
The extended spatial location of something;
The farming regions of France
Religions in all parts of the world
Regions of outer space
Local
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
It's never been more important to buy local.
Region
A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;
In the abdominal region
Local
Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
Gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.
Region
A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;
Penguins inhabit the polar regions
Local
A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.
Region
The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');
It was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
The price is in the neighborhood of $100
Local
In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.
Region
A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;
It was a limited domain of discourse
Here we enter the region of opinion
The realm of the occult
Local
A train or bus which stops at all stations along a line, as contrasted with an express, which stops only at certain stations designated as express stops.
Local
Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops;
The local seemed to take forever to get to New York
Local
Anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body
Local
Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area;
Local taxes
Local authorities
Local
Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood;
Local customs
Local schools
The local citizens
A local point of view
Local outbreaks of flu
A local bus line
Local
Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body;
Local anesthesia