different between local vs heart

English

Etymology

From Middle English local, from Late Latin loc?lis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??kl?/
• (General American) enPR: l?k??l, IPA^(key): /?lo?kl?/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Adjective

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

1. From or in a nearby location.

   Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global

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

   Antonym: global

3. (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
4. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

   Synonym: topical

5. Descended from an indigenous population.

Translations

Noun

local (plural locals)

1. A person who lives near a given place.
2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

   I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

3. (rail transport, chiefly US) 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.

   Synonym: stopper

   Antonyms: fast, express

4. (Britain) 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.

5. (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.

   • 2012, Cesar Otero, ?Rob Larsen, Professional JQuery (page 25)

     Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.

6. (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
7. (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
8. (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
   • 2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management (page 316)

     On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.

Translations

Adverb

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

1. In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

   It's never been more important to buy local.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• local in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• local in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• local at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• colla

Asturian

Adjective

local (epicene, plural locales)

1. Alternative form of llocal

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus, attested from 1803.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /lo?kal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /lu?kal/

Adjective

local (masculine and feminine plural locals)

1. local

Derived terms

• localitzar
• localment

Related terms

• lloc
• localitat

Noun

local m (plural locals)

1. property, premises; business, storefront

References

Further reading

• “local” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “local” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “local” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.kal/

Adjective

local (feminine singular locale, masculine plural locaux, feminine plural locales)

1. local

Antonyms

• global

Derived terms

• anesthésie locale
• classe locale
• localité
• localisation

Related terms

• lieu
• location

Noun

local m (plural locaux)

1. room

Descendants

• ? Danish: lokale

Further reading

• “local” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• colla

Ladin

Pronunciation

Adjective

local m (feminine singular locala, masculine plural locai, feminine plural locales)

1. local

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?kal/

Adjective

local

1. local

Noun

local m

1. room

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus. Cognate with the inherited lugar.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lu.?ka?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lo.?kaw/
• Hyphenation: lo?cal

Adjective

local m or f (plural locais, comparable)

1. local

Noun

local m (plural locais)

1. premises, rooms
2. site
3. place, location

Synonyms

• (place, site): lugar, sítio

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French local, Late Latin localis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?kal/

Adjective

local m or n (feminine singular local?, masculine plural locali, feminine and neuter plural locale)

1. local

Declension

Related terms

• localitate
• loc
• loca?ie

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus. Compare the inherited doublet lugar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?kal/, [lo?kal]
• Hyphenation: lo?cal

Adjective

local (plural locales)

1. local

Derived terms

• Grupo Local
• Policía Local

Noun

local m (plural locales)

1. premises, rooms
2. (Mexico) store or other retail unit in a shopping center

Derived terms

English

Alternative forms

• hart, harte, hearte (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hert?, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *??r (“heart”). Doublet of cardia.

Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century.

The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ? NY advertising campaign.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??t/
• (General American) enPR: härt, IPA^(key): /h??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t
• Homophone: hart

Noun

heart (countable and uncountable, plural hearts)

1. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
2. (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
   • 2008, "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8:

     "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.

   • Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943)
3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

   Synonyms: bravery, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage

   • c. 1679, William Temple, Essay

     The expelled nations take heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another.

5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
6. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

   Synonyms: honey, sugar; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart

   • c. 1596-99, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act V scene v^[4]:

     My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!

   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[5]:

     Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well.
     Awake.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 9–10:

     Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.

7. Personality, disposition.

8. (figuratively) A wight or being.
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene i^[6]:

     […] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, / Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, / Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, / Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey, […]

9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ? or sometimes <3.
10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
11. (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
12. (figuratively) The centre, essence, or core.

    Synonyms: crux, gist; see also Thesaurus:gist

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See heart/translations § Noun.

Verb

heart (third-person singular simple present hearts, present participle hearting, simple past and past participle hearted)

1. (transitive, humorous, informal) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. [from late 20th c.]

   Synonyms: love, less than three

   • 2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, "The Heart Has Its Reasons", Commonweal

     We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.

   • 2006, Susan Reinhardt, Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com

     I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.

   • 2008 January 30, "Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton", The Guardian (London)

     The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.

   • 2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
3. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
4. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

References

Further reading

• heart on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Earth, Erath, Harte, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, earth, hater, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare