Local vs. Regional
Difference Between Local and Regional
Localadjective
From or in a nearby location.
We prefer local produce.Regionaladjective
Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
Localadjective
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Regionaladjective
Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
Localadjective
Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
Regionaladjective
Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
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.Regionaladjective
(Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
Localadjective
Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.Regionalnoun
An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
Localnoun
A person who lives near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.Regionaladjective
characteristic of a region;
regional floraLocalnoun
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.Regionaladjective
related or limited to a particular region;
a regional dialectLocalnoun
(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.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.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.Localnoun
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
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.Localnoun
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 YorkLocalnoun
anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body
Localadjective
relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area;
local taxeslocal authoritiesLocaladjective
of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood;
local customslocal schoolsthe local citizensa local point of viewlocal outbreaks of flua local bus lineLocaladjective
affecting only a restricted part or area of the body;
local anesthesia
