Local vs. Region

Localadjective

From or in a nearby location.

‘We prefer local produce.’;

Regionnoun

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’;

Localadjective

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

Regionnoun

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.

Localadjective

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

Regionnoun

(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.

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.’;

Regionnoun

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

Localadjective

Descended from an indigenous population.

‘Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.’;

Regionnoun

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

‘the abdominal regions’;

Localnoun

A person who lives near a given place.

‘It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.’;

Regionnoun

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

Localnoun

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

‘I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.’;

Regionnoun

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

Localnoun

(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.’;

Regionnoun

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.’;

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.’;

Regionnoun

Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.

‘Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis.’;

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.’;

Regionnoun

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

‘Anon the dreadful thunderDoth rend the region.’;

Localnoun

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

Regionnoun

The inhabitants of a district.

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.’;

Regionnoun

Place; rank; station.

‘He is of too high a region.’;

Localadjective

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.’;

Regionnoun

the extended spatial location of something;

‘the farming regions of France’; ‘religions in all parts of the world’; ‘regions of outer space’;

Localnoun

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

Regionnoun

a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;

‘in the abdominal region’;

Localnoun

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

Regionnoun

a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

‘penguins inhabit the polar regions’;

Localnoun

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.

Regionnoun

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’;

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 York’;

Regionnoun

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’;

Localnoun

anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body

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.

Localadjective

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’;

Localadjective

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’;

Localadjective

affecting only a restricted part or area of the body;

‘local anesthesia’;

Localadjective

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

‘researching local history’; ‘the local post office’;

Localadjective

denoting a telephone call made to a nearby place and charged at a relatively low rate.

Localadjective

denoting a train or bus serving a particular district, with frequent stops

‘the village has an excellent local bus service’;

Localadjective

(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’;

Localadjective

denoting a variable or other entity that is only available for use in one part of a program.

Localadjective

denoting a device that can be accessed without the use of a network.

Localnoun

an inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood

‘the street was full of locals and tourists’;

Localnoun

a pub convenient to a person's home

‘a pint in the local’;

Localnoun

a local train or bus service

‘catch the local into New Delhi’;

Localnoun

a local branch of an organization, especially a trade union.

Localnoun

a floor trader who trades on their own account, rather than on behalf of other investors.