Local vs. Resident — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Local and Resident
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Local
Relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood
Researching local history
The local post office
Resident
A diplomatic official residing in a foreign seat of government.
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
Resident
A colonial official acting as adviser to the ruler of a protected state, often having quasi-gubernatorial powers.
Local
An inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood
The street was full of locals and tourists
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Resident
A member of an intelligence-gathering or nonuniformed law enforcement agency who resides and oversees operations in a certain locale
The FBI resident in St. Louis.
Local
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular place
A local custom.
The local slang.
Resident
One who lives in a dormitory.
Local
Of or relating to a city, town, or district rather than a larger area
State and local government.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized clinical training in a hospital, usually after completing an internship.
Local
Not broad or general; not widespread
Local outbreaks of flu.
Resident
A nonmigratory bird or other animal.
Local
Of or affecting a specific part of the body
A local infection.
Resident
Dwelling in a particular place; residing
Resident aliens.
Local
Making all possible or scheduled stops on a route; not express
A local train.
Resident
Living somewhere in connection with duty or work.
Local
A public conveyance that makes several intermediate stops before the final destination is reached
Changed trains to a local.
Resident
Filling a particular role in a group or organization
The museum's official resident poet.
The office's resident gossipmonger.
Local
A local chapter or branch of an organization, especially of a labor union.
Resident
Inherently present
Resident anxieties.
Local
A local anesthetic.
Resident
Nonmigratory
Resident fauna.
Local
(Informal) A person from a particular locality.
Resident
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
Local
From or in a nearby location.
We prefer local produce.
Resident
A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
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.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized medical training.
She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
Local
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Local
Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
Resident
(legal) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
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.
Resident
(espionage) rezident
Local
Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Resident in the city or in the country
Local
A person who lives near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
Resident
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
He is our resident computer expert.
Local
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
Resident
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
Local
(rail transport) local train
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
Resident
Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
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.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; - opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
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.
Resident
Fixed; stable; certain.
One there still resident as day and night.
Local
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Resident
One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
Local
Clipping of local anesthetic
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; - a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.
Local
(finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
Resident
Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Local
A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
Resident
A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital;
The resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital
Local
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
It's never been more important to buy local.
Resident
Living in a particular place;
Resident aliens
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.
Resident
Used of animals that do not migrate
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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