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单词 local
释义

local

See also: lo-cal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈləʊkl̩/
  • (General American) enPR: lōk′əl, IPA(key): /ˈloʊkl̩/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊkəl

Adjective

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

  1. From or in a nearby location.
    We prefer local produce.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
      Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
    • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
      A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
    Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global
  2. (computing, of a resource) 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.
    Antonym: remote
  3. (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
  4. (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
  5. (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.
    Synonym: topical
  6. Descended from an indigenous population.
    Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

Translations

Noun

local (plural locals)

  1. A person who lives near a given place.
    It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
      Taunton station is busy - even more so when the inbound working of my Bristol train arrives, laden with the usual mix of 'staycationers' and locals.
  2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
    I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
  3. (rail transport) Clipping of local train.
    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.
    • 1989, Road House, page 39:
      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 you a local.
  8. (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
    Synonym: floor trader
    • 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.
  9. (fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
    • 2018, Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend", The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018, page 25:
      Her camera roll is filled with pictures and videos of her idol, she doesn't let any of her friends see her account because "no locals allowed", […]
    • 2018, Fergal Smiddy, "The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter", University Express (University College Cork, Ireland), 16 October 2018, page 11:
      Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.
    • 2019, Avin Abelardo, "Deep Dive Into The World Of Troll Twitter Memes", Echoes (University of the Philippines), February/March 2019, page 60:
      Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:local.

Translations

local train — see local train

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.
    • 2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122:
      Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Derived terms

Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
  • all politics is local
  • glocal
  • localism
  • locality
  • localization
  • localize
  • locally
Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
  • locate
  • location
  • locative
  • locator
  • locus

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 locālis, from Latin locus, attested from 1803.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /loˈkal/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /luˈkal/

Adjective

local (masculine and feminine plural locals)

  1. local

Derived terms

  • localitzar
  • localment
  • lloc
  • localitat

Noun

local m (plural locals)

  1. property, premises; business, storefront

References

  1. “local”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

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.

Chinese

Etymology

From English local.

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lōukǒu
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄡ ㄎㄡˇ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): lou1 kou2
  • Mandarin
    • (Standard Chinese)+
      • Hanyu Pinyin: lōukǒu
      • Zhuyin: ㄌㄡ ㄎㄡˇ
      • Tongyong Pinyin: loukǒu
      • Wade–Giles: lou1-kʻou3
      • Yale: lōu-kǒu
      • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhoukoou
      • Palladius: лоукоу (loukou)
      • Sinological IPA (key): /loʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  • Cantonese
    • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
      • Jyutping: lou1 kou2
      • Yale: lōu kóu
      • Cantonese Pinyin: lou1 kou2
      • Guangdong Romanization: lou1 kou2
      • Sinological IPA (key): /lou̯⁵⁵ kʰou̯³⁵/

Noun

local

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese or in Mandarin among overseas Chinese) local (people, as opposed to foreigners)

References

  • English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Fala

Etymology

From Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loˈkal/

Adjective

local (plural locais)

  1. local

Noun

local m (plural locais)

  1. premises; rooms

References

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu [Fala Dictionary]‎, CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 190

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔ.kal/
  • audio(file)

Adjective

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

  1. local
    Antonym: global

Derived terms

  • anesthésie locale
  • classe locale
  • localité
  • localisation
  • lieu
  • location

Noun

local m (plural locaux)

  1. room

Descendants

  • → Danish: lokale
  • → Romanian: local
  • → Turkish: lokal

Further reading

  • “local”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • colla

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.

Adjective

local m or f (plural locais)

  1. local

Noun

local m (plural locais)

  1. premises; rooms

References

  • “local” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
  • “local” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
  • “local” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Ladin

Adjective

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

  1. local

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luˈkal/

Adjective

local

  1. local

Noun

local m

  1. room

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus. Cognate with the inherited lugar.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /loˈkaw/ [loˈkaʊ̯]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /luˈkal/ [luˈkaɫ]

  • Rhymes: -al, -aw
  • Hyphenation: lo‧cal

Adjective

local m or f (plural locais)

  1. local

Noun

local m (plural locais)

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

Synonyms

  • (place, site): lugar, sítio

Derived terms

  • localmente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French local, Late Latin localis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loˈkal/

Adjective

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

  1. local

Declension
Declension of local
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite local locală locali locale
definite localul locala localii localele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite local locale locali locale
definite localului localei localilor localelor
  • localitate
  • loc
  • locație

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus. Compare the inherited doublet lugar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loˈkal/ [loˈkal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: lo‧cal

Adjective

local (plural locales)

  1. local

Derived terms

  • anestesia local
  • Grupo Local
  • localmente
  • Policía Local

Noun

local m (plural locales)

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

Derived terms

  • local de alterne

Further reading

  • “local”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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