NOUN
  • Definition - A person who lives near a given place.
  • Example - It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
  • Definition - A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
  • Example - I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
  • Definition - A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
  • Example - The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
  • Definition - One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
  • Example - I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
  • Definition - A locally scoped identifier.
  • Example - 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.
  • Definition - An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
  • Example - 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.
ADJECTIVE
  • Definition - From or in a nearby location.
  • Example - We prefer local produce.
  • Definition - (of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
  • Example - We prefer local produce.
  • Definition - (of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
  • Example - We prefer local produce.
  • Definition - Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
  • Example - The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
  • Definition - Descended from an indigenous population.
  • Example - Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
ADVERB
  • Definition - In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
  • Example - It's never been more important to buy local.
NOUN
  • Definition - An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
  • Example - It's never been more important to buy local.
Words in your word
5 Letter Words
local 7
4 Letter Words
call 6 calo 6 coal 6 cola 6 loca 6 olla 4
3 Letter Words
cal 5 col 5 lac 5 oca 5 all 3
2 Letter Words
al 2 la 2 lo 2
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