| local | |
| 1. adj. From or in a nearby location. | |
| We prefer local produce. | |
| 2. adj. (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. | |
| 3. adj. (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. | |
| 4. adj. (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. | |
| 5. adj. Descended from an indigenous population. | |
| Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population. | |
| 6. n. A person who lives near a given place. | |
| It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists. | |
| 7. n. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. | |
| I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6. | |
| 8. n. (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. | |
| 9. n. (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. | |
| 10. n. (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. | |
| 11. n. (US, slang) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. | |
| 12. n. (colloquial, medicine) (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 yo | |
