Locale vs. Local — What's the Difference?

A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it

Relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood

A place, especially with reference to a particular event

(in technical use) relating to a particular region or part, or to each of any number of these

The scene or setting, as of a novel.

An inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood

The place where something happens.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular place

(computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.

Of or relating to a city, town, or district rather than a larger area

(mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)

Not broad or general; not widespread

A place, spot, or location.

Of or affecting a specific part of the body

A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

Making all possible or scheduled stops on a route; not express

The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)

A public conveyance that makes several intermediate stops before the final destination is reached

A local chapter or branch of an organization, especially of a labor union.

A local anesthetic.

(Informal) A person from a particular locality.

From or in a nearby location.

Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.

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

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

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

Descended from an indigenous population.

A person who lives near a given place.

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

(rail transport) local train

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

(programming) A locally scoped identifier.

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

Clipping of local anesthetic

(finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.

A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.

In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

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.

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

In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.

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.

Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops;

Anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body

Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area;

Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood;

Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body;