Locale vs. Local — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Locale and Local
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Definitions
Locale
A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it
Her summers were spent in a variety of exotic locales
Local
Relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood
Researching local history
The local post office
Locale
A place, especially with reference to a particular event
The locale of a crime.
Local
(in technical use) relating to a particular region or part, or to each of any number of these
Migration can regulate the local density of animals
A local infection
Locale
The scene or setting, as of a novel.
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Local
An inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood
The street was full of locals and tourists
Locale
The place where something happens.
Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
Local
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular place
A local custom.
The local slang.
Locale
(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.
Local
Of or relating to a city, town, or district rather than a larger area
State and local government.
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Locale
(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.)
Local
Not broad or general; not widespread
Local outbreaks of flu.
Locale
A place, spot, or location.
Local
Of or affecting a specific part of the body
A local infection.
Locale
A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.
Local
Making all possible or scheduled stops on a route; not express
A local train.
Locale
The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
Local
A public conveyance that makes several intermediate stops before the final destination is reached
Changed trains to a local.
Local
A local chapter or branch of an organization, especially of a labor union.
Local
A local anesthetic.
Local
(Informal) A person from a particular locality.
Local
From or in a nearby location.
We prefer local produce.
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.
Local
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Local
Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
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.
Local
Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
Local
A person who lives near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
Local
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
Local
(rail transport) local train
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
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.
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.
Local
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Local
Clipping of local anesthetic
Local
(finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
Local
A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
Local
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
It's never been more important to buy local.
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.
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.
Local
In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.
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