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Local vs. Region — What's the Difference?

Local vs. Region — What's the Difference?

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Local

Relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood
Researching local history
The local post office

Region

In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography). Geographic regions and sub-regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined, and sometimes transitory boundaries, except in human geography, where jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law.

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

Region

A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space
The upper regions of the atmosphere.

Local

An inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood
The street was full of locals and tourists
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Region

A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic
The coastal region.
The region of storm damage.

Local

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular place
A local custom.
The local slang.

Region

A bioregion.

Local

Of or relating to a city, town, or district rather than a larger area
State and local government.

Region

A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands
The Osaka region.

Local

Not broad or general; not widespread
Local outbreaks of flu.

Region

An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries
The abdominal region.

Local

Of or affecting a specific part of the body
A local infection.

Region

An area of interest or activity; a sphere
The region of gender studies.

Local

Making all possible or scheduled stops on a route; not express
A local train.

Region

An approximate degree or amount
Costs in the region of one billion dollars.

Local

A public conveyance that makes several intermediate stops before the final destination is reached
Changed trains to a local.

Region

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 regions
The temperate regions
The polar regions
The upper regions of the atmosphere

Local

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

Region

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

Local

A local anesthetic.

Region

(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.

Local

(Informal) A person from a particular locality.

Region

An administrative subdivision of the European Union.

Local

From or in a nearby location.
We prefer local produce.

Region

A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.

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.

Region

(Ontario) regional municipality

Local

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

Region

Ellipsis of administrative region

Local

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

Region

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

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.

Region

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

Local

Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

Region

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

Local

A person who lives near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

Region

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

Local

A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

Region

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world,Or unknown region.

Local

(rail transport) local train
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.

Region

Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis.

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.

Region

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
Anon the dreadful thunderDoth rend the region.

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.

Region

The inhabitants of a district.

Local

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

Region

Place; rank; station.
He is of too high a region.

Local

Clipping of local anesthetic

Region

The extended spatial location of something;
The farming regions of France
Religions in all parts of the world
Regions of outer space

Local

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

Region

A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;
In the abdominal region

Local

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

Region

A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;
Penguins inhabit the polar regions

Local

In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
It's never been more important to buy local.

Region

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 job
The price is in the neighborhood of $100

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.

Region

A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;
It was a limited domain of discourse
Here we enter the region of opinion
The realm of the occult

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

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