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Definition of Local

1. Adjective. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area. "Local authorities"

2. Noun. 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"

3. Adjective. Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood. "A local bus line"

4. Noun. Anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body.

5. Adjective. Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body. "Local anesthesia"

Definition of Local

1. a. 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.

2. n. A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

Definition of Local

1. Adjective. From or in a nearby location. ¹

2. Adjective. (computing of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. ¹

3. Adjective. (mathematics not comparable of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. ¹

4. Adjective. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. ¹

5. Adjective. Descended from an indigenous population. ¹

6. Noun. A person who lives nearby. ¹

7. Noun. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. ¹

8. Noun. (rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones. ¹

9. Noun. (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. ¹

10. Noun. (programming) A locally scoped identifier. ¹

11. Noun. (US slang journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Local

1. a train or bus making all stops [n -S]

Medical Definition of Local

1. Restricted to or pertaining to one spot or part, not general. Origin: L. Localis This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Local

lobus medius pulmonis dextri lobus nervosus lobus occipitalis cerebri lobus parietalis cerebri lobus posterior hypophyseos lobus prostatae lobus pyramidalis glandulae thyroideae lobus quadratus lobus renalis lobus sinister

lobus superior pulmonis lobus temporalis lobworm lobworms local (current term) local administrative unit local anaemia local anaesthesia local anaesthetic local anaesthetic reaction

local anaesthetics local anaphylaxis local anesthesia local anesthetic local anesthetics local area network local area networks local asphyxia local authority

Literary usage of Local

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl Van Doren (1922)
"local COLOR A study of the American novel of the twentieth century must first of all take stock of certain types of fiction which continue to persist, ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1902)
"I.—local TAXATION. Reporte of HM Commissioners appointed to enquire into the subject ... Our local expenditure, according to a return »applied by Sir Edward ..."

3. Government in State and Nation by James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford (1911)
"But since these local governments were all established by Englishmen, and, ... The most marked differences are seen in a comparison New Eng- of local ..."

4. Government in State and Nation by James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford (1904)
"But since these local governments were all established by Englishmen, and, moreover, ... The most marked differences are seen in a comparison of local ..."

5. Catalogue of a Collection of Objects Illustrating the Folklore of Mexico by Frederick Starr (1899)
"local INDUSTRIES. IN Mexico local industries and local arts are most strikingly developed. ... Even in modes of work such local diversity exists. ..."

6. Managing Decentralisation: A New Role for Labour Market Policy by Oecd (2003)
"local governance, or the ways society finds solutions to its problems and meets its needs, can also be defined using its three main components following ..."

7. The Taxation of Corporations in New York: With Forms, and an Appendix by Henry Montefiore Powell (1914)
"PRIOR to the year there was no regular system in New York for the taxation of corporations for either state or local purposes. ..."

8. A Manual for Health Officers by Joseph Scott MacNutt (1915)
"A MANUAL FOR HEALTH OFFICERS CHAPTER I local HEALTH AUTHORITIES The chief basis ... That authority is commonly vested in the local board of health and its ..."

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