Local vs. Region

Difference Between Local and Region

Localadjective

From or in a nearby location.

We prefer local produce.

Regionnoun

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 regionsthe temperate regionsthe polar regionsthe upper regions of the atmosphere

Localadjective

Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

Regionnoun

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.

Localadjective

Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.

Regionnoun

(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.

Localadjective

(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.

Regionnoun

(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.

Localadjective

Descended from an indigenous population.

Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

Regionnoun

(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

the abdominal regions

Localnoun

A person who lives near a given place.

It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

Regionnoun

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

Localnoun

A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

Regionnoun

(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

Localnoun

(rail transport) 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.

Regionnoun

the extended spatial location of something;

the farming regions of Francereligions in all parts of the worldregions of outer space

Localnoun

(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.

Regionnoun

a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;

in the abdominal region

Localnoun

(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.

Regionnoun

a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

penguins inhabit the polar regions

Localnoun

An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

Regionnoun

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 jobthe price is in the neighborhood of $100

Localnoun

clipping of local anesthetic

1989, Road House, 39:59:Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you a local.