Locals vs. Local

Locals Technology Inc., or locals.com, is a creator crowdfunding site cofounded by Dave Rubin and Assaf Lev. It started in 2019 and is based in New York City.

From or in a nearby location.

Example: ‘We prefer local produce.’;

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

Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.

(medicine) 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.’;

Descended from an indigenous population.

Example: ‘Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.’;

A person who lives near a given place.

Example: ‘It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.’;

A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

Example: ‘I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.’;

(rail transport) 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.’;

(British) 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.’;

(programming) 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.’;

An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

clipping of local anesthetic

Example: ‘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 you a local.’;

Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.

Example: ‘Gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.’;

A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.

A train or bus which stops at all stations along a line, as contrasted with an express, which stops only at certain stations designated as express stops.

public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops;

Example: ‘the local seemed to take forever to get to New York’;

anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body

relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area;

Example: ‘local taxes’; ‘local authorities’;

of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood;

Example: ‘local customs’; ‘local schools’; ‘the local citizens’; ‘a local point of view’; ‘local outbreaks of flu’; ‘a local bus line’;

affecting only a restricted part or area of the body;

Example: ‘local anesthesia’;

relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood

Example: ‘researching local history’; ‘the local post office’;

denoting a telephone call made to a nearby place and charged at a relatively low rate.

denoting a train or bus serving a particular district, with frequent stops

Example: ‘the village has an excellent local bus service’;

(in technical use) relating to a particular region or part, or to each of any number of these

Example: ‘migration can regulate the local density of animals’; ‘a local infection’;

denoting a variable or other entity that is only available for use in one part of a program.

denoting a device that can be accessed without the use of a network.

an inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood

Example: ‘the street was full of locals and tourists’;

a pub convenient to a person's home

Example: ‘a pint in the local’;

a local train or bus service

Example: ‘catch the local into New Delhi’;

a local branch of an organization, especially a trade union.

a floor trader who trades on their own account, rather than on behalf of other investors.