different between local vs locate

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin loc?tus, past participle of loco (“to place”), from locus (“place”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???ke?t/, /l??ke?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?ke?t/, /lo??ke?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: lo?cate

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
   • 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek

     The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

3. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
   • 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy

     That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• co-locate

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Alecto, acetol, coleta

Italian

Verb

locate

1. second-person plural present indicative of locare
2. second-person plural imperative of locare
3. feminine plural of locato

Anagrams

• celato
• colate
• cotale

Latin

Participle

loc?te

1. vocative masculine singular of loc?tus