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Definition: Local |
LocalAdjective1. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area; "local taxes"; "local authorities". 2. Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood; "local customs"; "local schools"; "the local citizens"; "a local point of view"; "local outbreaks of flu"; "a local bus line". 3. (medicine) affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; "local anesthesia". Noun1. Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops; "the local seemed to take forever to get to New York". 2. Anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "local" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Aerospace | In astronomy, referred to a reference line passing through a particular place other than Greenwich, as local meridian. (references) |
Computing | Pertaining to the relationship between a language object and a block such that the language object has a scope contained in that block. Source: European Union. (references) |
Labor | The basic unit of labor organization in the United States. The term generally applies to a single plant or a small geographical unit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Local exchange carrier is a regulatory term in telecommunications for so-called local telephone company. It is also referred to as LEC for short.In the United States, wireline telephone companies are divided into a two large category: long distance (interexchange carrier, or IXCs) and local (local exchange carrier, or LECs). This structure is a result of 1984 divestiture of then regulated monopoly carrier AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph).
The divestiture created local exchange carriers for management of local telephone lines and switches, and provision of local phone calls within their business area, as well as the long-distance calls originating or terminating in their business area.
The local phone calls are defined as calls originating and terminating within a LATA, local access and transport area, which is defined by the Federal Communications Commission.
The following information applied to residential telephone service in the Detroit, Michigan area during the 1970's and 1980's. Much about this subject has changed dramatically since that time, and continues to do so.
A local exchange carrier is a carrier of telephone calls and other communication services carried by telephone lines. A local exchange is generally either an exchange within one's own local access transport area (LATA) or in an immediately adjacent LATA. A call that is neither local nor long distance is called a local toll call. A local exchange carrier normally sells package deals that include local and local toll calls. Local calls are customarily billed in by the call, or in blocks of calls. Residential local exchange carrier service typically charges m+p(q+|q-n|)/2, where m is the monthly minimum and covers the first n calls, p is the price per local call, and q is the total quantity of calls consumed. Local toll calls are each billed at m+(t-1)p, where m is minimum charge for a local toll call, p is the per-minute charge, and t is the duration of the call in minutes. Local toll calls are traditionally grouped into two price ranges, called "near zone" and "far zone", with values of m and p higher for far zone.
See also : competitive local exchange carrier.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Local exchange carrier."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In physics, the locality principle states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings. The locality principle appears to be violated by Bell's inequality.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Locality principle."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LOCAL | English | Laboratory Organisation for Computer Assisted Learning | Computing, Education |
| LOC | English | Local facilities | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LocalSynonyms: local anaesthetic (n), local anesthetic (n), topical anaesthetic (n), topical anesthetic (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: general (adj), national (adj), express (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Noun: abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, |
Council | Senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma, house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal; (tribunal); board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board. |
Imagination | Verb: imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name". |
Location | Plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization, domestication, situation; habitation; (abode); cohabitation; "a local habitation and a name"; endenization, naturalization. |
Region | Adjective: territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional. |
Situation | Adjective: situate, situated; local, topical, topographical; n. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I guess it's time to go apply at my local Hooters (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands, rather than her local geneticist (Gattaca; writing credit: Andrew Niccol) Another local peasant has been found dead, drained of his blood with two teeth marks on his throat (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) That's just a local film crew (Killer's Mind; writing credit: Chantal Marie) Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light years away, you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) | |
Lyrics | Gonna mail it to my local DJ (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Room in the local disco lounge (All She Wants to Do Is Dance; performing artist: Don Henley) If you compare me to your local grocery (E.I.; performing artist: Nelly) Girls local and out of state (Dance & Shout; performing artist: Shaggy) The local rock group down the street (Pleasant Valley Sunday; performing artist: The Monkees) | |
Clever | Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half (references; author: unknown) You work for a defense contractor if you are on a first name basis at your local unemployment office. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Listen to the local yokel yodel. (references; author: unknown) Local yokel jokes. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Local 100 (1950) Two Local Yokels (1945) Local Bad Man (1932) A Splash of Local Color (1916) Local Color on the A-1 Ranch (1916) | |
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 | This is a schematic drawing of the stages of metastasis 1) attachment 2) local breakdown 3) locomotion 4) secondary tumor. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | The metastatic colony is the end result of a complicated multistep process. The tumor cells from a primary tumor invade local tissue and gain access to the venous circulation (intravasation). Circulating tumor cells, singly or in clumps, are transported to target organs where they lodge in the capillary bed. Thus arrested, these tumor cells penetrate the endothelial cell lining and the underlining basement membrane to exit the circulation (extravasation). They then grow as a metastatic colony, a development that requires new blood vessels (neovascularization). To complete this multistep process, the tumor cells must overcome the host's defenses. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Public Health nurse with Eskimo and dog team preparing to make a call on local residents. Credit: CDC. |  | Disaster Aid. Local citizens receive Typhoid vacinations from Dr. M.L. Fuller, Director, Laredo/Webb County Health Unit and other employees in a mass immunization program following the Rio Grande flood of 1954. Credit: CDC. |
 | In the most active starburst region in the local universe resides a cluster of brilliant, ... Credit: NASA. |  | Spray in the sunset at Soquel Point The local name for Soquel Point is Pleasure Point. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | H. Arnold Karo Director of Coast and Geodetic Survey 1955-1965 Deputy Administrator of ESSA with rank of Vice-Admiral 1965-1966 With Moro Dwarf Dicky Dicky who was local judge Dicky Dicky was 47 and later found to have leprosy. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Volunteers helping clean up the wetlands and waterfront area around Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. Local NOAA personnel turned out in force for this event including Dr. Russ Bellmer of the NOAA NMFS Office of Habitat Conservation. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Part of the crowd celebrating the 4th of July at St. Paul. A number of representatives of the local baseball team are dressed for a game. F&WS 10,020. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A Mississippi state biologist works with bait fishermen to conserve local stocks. Credit: Fisheries. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Local Market" by Luke Partridge Commentary: "Odd little local market. Lomo and Ilford." | "Local train" by Zoltan Szalay Commentary: "HÉV local trainline." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Johnson | Virtue is too often merely local. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But submitting to the laws of any country, living quietly, and enjoying privileges and protection under them, makes not a man a member of that society: this is only a local protection and homage due to and from all those, who, not being in a state of war, come within the territories belonging to any government, to all parts whereof the force of its laws extends. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Only a local gendarmerie for the maintenance of order may be established. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | All such topics as the weather, or politics, or local gossip, are unknown among us. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | He worked in local radio which he always used to tell his friends was a lot more interesting than they probably thought |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates, says that two thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the sunken road of Ohain |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Dedalus had ordered drisheens for breakfast and during the meal he crossexamined the waiter for local news |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Local or state health department. (references) | |
Many outbreaks are local in nature. (references) | ||
Ask about local pulmonary programs. (references) | ||
Business | Figures for local production are estimates. (references) | |
The only major competition is local producers. (references) | ||
Valves are manufactured from local iron scrap. (references) | ||
Children | Haiti | Several international and local NGO's work on children's issues. (references) |
Turkmenistan | Care for persons with disabilities is provided at the local level. (references) | |
Burma | In ethnic minority areas, the army often has banned teaching in local languages. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Mali | Voice of America has a local FM affiliate. (references) |
Zambia | None of the services includes local news coverage. (references) | |
Laos | Local news in all media reflects government policy. (references) | |
Discrimination | Afghanistan | Its severity varied from area to area, depending on the local leadership's attitude toward education for girls and employment for women and on local attitudes. (references) |
Economic History | Korea | Korea's local catch is shrinking. (references) |
Pakistan | Water: Local governmental authorities. (references) | |
Human Rights | Latvia | All involved local police officials. (references) |
Haiti | They are usually better armed than local police. (references) | |
Gambia | Local jails continued to experience overcrowding. (references) | |
Indigenous People | India | There is some local autonomy for tribal people in the northeast. (references) |
Norway | A Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Affairs deals specifically with Sami issues. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Confusion continues over the overlapping responsibilities of the various central and local government bodies involved in the Hill Tracts. (references) | |
Minorities | India | Both missionaries were attempting to convert local tribal people. (references) |
Moldova | These schools are considered private schools by the local authorities. (references) | |
Moldova | Local church member volunteers reportedly sleep in his house to protect him. (references) | |
Political Economy | Poland | It also functions as the owner of local public assets. (references) |
FRANCE | France strictly applies quotas mandating local content. (references) | |
HAITI | Dollar accounts are available at local commercial banks. (references) | |
Political Rights | Andorra | A local group won two seats. (references) |
Congo | Rebels appointed local officials rather than holding elections. (references) | |
Kenya | In elections many local officials actively assist the ruling KANU. (references) | |
Trade | Trinidad | The availability of local project financing is very limited. (references) |
Oman | No new foreign bank may open, except by purchase of a local bank. (references) | |
Morocco | Metric measurements are common on both local and imported products. (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | Qatar local time is GMT plus 3 hours. (references) |
Luxembourg | The Luxembourg Franc is the local currency. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Local hospitals are adequate for basic care. (references) | |
Women | Cambodia | A local human rights monitoring organization reported 141 cases of rape. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | When abuse is reported to the local police, authorities may take action to protect the complainant. (references) | |
Mauritania | By local tradition, a woman's first marriage, but not subsequent marriages, requires parental consent. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Slovak Republic | Local unions also held strike alerts. (references) |
Luxembourg | No local NGO's deal with the problem. (references) | |
Gambia | Foreign workers may join local unions. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Schieffer | What happened when I got back is the local television station invited me to come out and talk about the war. It was on a little noon talk show, and afterward they offered me the job. |
Dennis Miller | In the Catholic priest sex scandal, almost as shocking as the acts themselves was the way the local dioceses refused to take responsibility for their clergymen, instead shuffling them more frantically than a croupier with obsessive compulsive disorder. |
Dominick Dunne | Well, I mean shocked with delight, I have to tell you, because I mean, you know, I always think that the defendant who gets the million dollar lawyer is going to beat the local, overworked, underpaid prosecutor, but it didn't work out that way this time. |
Michael Chertoff | Nineteen airmen killed, a lot of local people were killed. It was not al Qaeda, it was Hezbollah, which is a separate group, although they sometimes work together. |
Paul Anka | We have a wonderful chorus, all local friends who have worked with me before, and they have come along to contribute. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Men began to discard the narrow confines of a local charter for the broader opportunities of a national constitution. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | While the authority of the Federal Government extends to but part of our vast system of national, State, and local justice, yet the standards which the Federal Government establishes have the most profound influence upon the whole structure. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | State and local governments also have an essential role to play in a national public works program. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Crime must be rooted out in local communities by local authorities. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Under the Constitution, the greatest responsibility for curbing crime lies with State and local authorities. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Some will say also our states and local communities are not up to the challenge of a new and creative partnership. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | After all, a mandate just increases someone else's tax burden, and that means higher taxes at the state and local level. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | At last we have begun to find a way to reduce crime, forming community partnerships with local police forces to catch criminals and prevent crime. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | I believe in local control of schools. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Local" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.35% of the time. "Local" is used about 44,914 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.35% | 44,173 | 186 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.59% | 716 | 9,388 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44,914 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Local Financial Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "local": a bottle of the local wine ♦ beyond local repair ♦ Chose local ♦ custom local area signalling service ♦ department of local government ♦ digitization of local trunks ♦ European Local Area Network ♦ in the local area ♦ local access and transport area ♦ local access and transportation area ♦ Local actions ♦ local administrator ♦ Local affection ♦ local airline ♦ local anaesthesia ♦ local anaesthetic ♦ local anesthesia ♦ local anesthetic ♦ local area network ♦ Local Area Networks ♦ local Area Transport ♦ local arrangements committee ♦ Local attraction ♦ local authority ♦ local authority district ♦ local authority negotiable bond ♦ local automatic message accounting system ♦ Local battery ♦ local board ♦ local bottling ♦ local buckling ♦ local bus ♦ local call ♦ local cancer ♦ Local circuit ♦ local collapse ♦ Local color ♦ local colour ♦ local competitive tendering ♦ local coordinate space ♦ local council ♦ local custom ♦ local defense ♦ local deformation of fuel cladding ♦ local department ♦ local distributor road ♦ local echo ♦ local exchange ♦ local exchange carrier ♦ local exhaust system ♦ local exhaust ventilation ♦ local expression ♦ local form financial statements ♦ local geography and history ♦ Local Government ♦ local habitation ♦ Local healing ♦ local heating of work places ♦ local history ♦ local housing committee ♦ local ID ♦ local labor ♦ local labour ♦ local lighting ♦ local loop ♦ local loopback addresses ♦ Local Lymph Node Assay ♦ local maintenance facility ♦ local mean time ♦ local minima ♦ local network ♦ local news ♦ local newspaper ♦ local option ♦ local organizing committee ♦ local oscillator ♦ local overheat detector ♦ local post office ♦ local postal attributes ♦ local prison ♦ local radio ♦ local rag ♦ local rank ♦ local resident ♦ local section ♦ local service personnel ♦ local services ♦ local shop ♦ local sidereal time ♦ local subdivision ♦ local synaptic rule ♦ local tax ♦ local taxes ♦ local therapy ♦ local time ♦ local traffic access plan ♦ local train ♦ local union ♦ local unit ♦ local unit of the enterprise ♦ local ventilation. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "local": local-area, local-area, local-authority, local-authority-wide, local-based, local-born, local-boy, local-bus, local-central, local-council, local-currency, local-education, local-election, local-exchange, local-for-local, local-government, local-grown, local-interest, local-level, local-local, local-party, local-planning, local-rate, local-scale, local-sounding, local-storyteller, local-tax, local-telephone. | |
Ending with "local": central-local, local-for-local, supra-local. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
local weather | 7,079 | local band | 266 |
local news | 3,092 | local weather radar | 264 |
local phone service | 1,558 | daily local news | 255 |
local | 1,209 | local map | 247 |
local weather forecast | 963 | local government | 219 |
local weather forcast | 788 | local oklahoma bank | 219 |
local newspaper | 545 | local h | 193 |
local area network | 455 | local weather report | 160 |
sprint.com local | 452 | search local file | 159 |
local movie listing | 419 | local time | 158 |
get local | 358 | local job search | 157 |
local movie times | 337 | local radio station | 154 |
local job | 333 | local motion | 151 |
local movie theater and times | 330 | local shopping | 150 |
local movie | 329 | local church | 150 |
local movie theater | 302 | local escort | 145 |
local tv listing | 299 | local real estate | 135 |
local phone company | 281 | local chat rooms | 134 |
local chat | 280 | sprint local | 133 |
local setting | 268 | local job listing | 133 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "local"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | plaaslik. (various references) | |
Albanian | lokal (cafeteria, coffee room, house, native, parlor, parlour, premises, provincial, restaurant, room, sectional, spot, vicinal), lajm nga vendi, vendor, krahinor (provincial, regional), i lokalizuar, bar (bar, brasserie, cure, drug, gin mill, grass, herb, herbage, medicament, medicine, pasturage, pasture, physic, pub, saloon), banor i vendit. (various references) | |
Arabic | فرع محلي (chapter, council), موضعي (topical), محلي (domestic, home, municipal, native, regional, territorial, topical), قطار بطىء, حانة محلية, أتوبيس أو قطار يتوقف في جميع المحطات. (various references) | |
Basque | bertoko. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ядка (core, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nut), местна организация, местна пивница, местни новини, местен свещеник, местен жител (aboriginal, native, resident), местен лекар, местен (aboriginal, home grown, indigenous, locative, native, native born, provincial, regional, resident, sectional, topical, vernacular, vicinal, vulgar), локален (sectional, topical, vicinal), пътнически влак. (various references) | |
Catalan | local. (various references) | |
Chinese | 地方 (area, place). (various references) | |
Czech | lokální, lokálka (omnibus train), zdejší, místní organizace, místní hostinec, místní (grass roots, vernacular). (various references) | |
Danish | lokal (regional). (various references) | |
Dutch | lokaal (chamber, place, room), plaatselijk (regional). (various references) | |
Esperanto | loka. (various references) | |
Estonian | kohalikku. (various references) | |
Finnish | paikallinen (indigenous, locoregional, topical). (various references) | |
French | local. (various references) | |
German | lokal (bar, inn, meeting place, premises, pub, regional, restaurant), örtlich (locally, locational, regional, regionally), hiesig, einheimische (home girl, native, native inhabitants). (various references) | |
Greek | τοπικός (topical). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקומי (indigenous, native, resident, topical), מסבאה מקומית, תושב מקומי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | helyi (endemic, home, parochial, provincial, regional, topical), helybeli (home, resident). (various references) | |
Indonesian | setempat, cabang persatuan. (various references) | |
Irish | áitiúla, áitiúil. (various references) | |
Italian | locale (home-born, locally, native, place, premises, regional, resident, room, vernacular). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 現地 (actual place), 地域的 (regional), 地元 , 地場 , レ点 (LAN, law, local area network, local color, local content, local minima, local news, local observer, low, low absorber, low angle, mark showing character order in Chinese texts, raw, row, tick mark), 局地的 , 局所 (section). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ローカル , きょくしょ (section), きょくちてき, げんち (actual place, commitment, pledge or promise), じば (magnetic field), じもと, ちいきてき (regional). (various references) | |
Korean | 현지 (scene). (various references) | |
Manx | ynnydoil (district), ynnydagh (attorney, delegate, deputy, representative), thie oast ny ynnyd, ellanagh (homebred, insular, islander). (various references) | |
Norwegian | lokale, lokal, stedlig, kommunal. (various references) | |
Papiamen | lokal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocallay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | local (location, locus, place, premise, premises, regional, sectional, site, spot). (various references) | |
Romanian | localnic, localã, local (home, parochial, regional, topical, vernacular), tren local, organizaţie localã de partid, mãrginit (dense, finite, illiberal, limited, little, low-minded, narrow, narrow minded, obtuse, parochially, restricted, small), de loc (any, anyhow, at all, never, nohow, not a bit, not a tinker's damn, not at all, not in the least, not it the least degree, not nearly, nothing, the deuce a bit, the devil a bit), îngust (illiberal, little, low-minded, narrow, narrow minded, parochial, parochially, purblind, slender, slim, thin, tight). (various references) | |
Russian | локальный (local-area, topic, topical). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lokalni voz, lokalan, tamošnji, sindikalna podružnica, ovdašnji, mesni (meaty, topical), meštanin (townee, townsman). (various references) | |
Slovene | krajevnega. (various references) | |
Spanish | local (lieu, locally, place, premises, regional, vernacular). (various references) | |
Swedish | lokal (habitat, hall, place, premises, room, territorial, topical), lokala (locally). (various references) | |
Tagalog | lokal. (various references) | |
Thai | ร้านเหล้า, ประจำท้องถิ่น, คนพื้นเมือง, ของพื้นเมือง, มีผลเฉพาะที่ในร่างกาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | yerli (aboriginal, american indian, autochthon, autochthonous, domestic, domicilled, habitant, homemade, indigenous, inhabitant, native, native born, resident). (various references) | |
Turkmen | oturymly, orunly, яerli. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | частковий (fractional, partial, particulate), обмежений (bat-minded, borne, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, parochial, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, straitened, terminate), місцевий поїзд, місцевий (aboriginal, domestic, home, home-bred, indigenous, locative, native, on site, on the spot, parochial, provincial, territorial, topical). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người làm nghề tự do ở địa phương, người dân địa phương, công quán, địa phương bộ phận. (various references) | |
Welsh | lleol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "local": locale, locales, localise, localised, localises, localising, localism, localisms, localist, localists, localite, localites, localities, locality, localizabilities, localizability, localizable, localization, localizations, localize, localized, localizes, localizing, locally, locals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "local": interlocal, nonlocal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "local": delocalization, delocalizations, delocalize, delocalized, delocalizes, delocalizing, kilocalorie, kilocalories, nonlocals, unlocalized. (additional references) | |
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"Local" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blocul, glocal, lacal, lacl, leca, Lecca, Lecraw, ledal, lexal, lican, Lichal, lloral, lobal, localy, Locan, Locas, Lochar, Lochay, locia, Locl, locol, locul, Lohali, Loncle, Losalt, Losiolo, Louca, loval, loxal, lsca, luca, Lucar, luccan, Luczak, lukal, lycan, Lyosha, Olac, olcan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "local" (pronounced lō"kul) |
| 4 | -ō" k u l | focal, Sokol, vocal. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, sociological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-l-o" | |
-1 letter: call, calo, coal, cola, loca, olla. | |
-2 letters: all, col, lac, oca. | |
-3 letters: al, la, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: callow, cholla, clonal, collar, locale, locals. | |
+2 letters: alcohol, callboy, callose, callous, calomel, challot, chloral, chollas, cloacal, collage, collard, collars, collate, corolla, focally, locales, locally, lochial, locular, logical, ocellar, pollack, scallop, vocally. | |
+3 letters: agalloch, alcohols, allocate, alogical, callaloo, callboys, calliope, calloses, callower, calomels, carillon, carolled, caroller, caudillo, challoth, chlorals, chorally, clitoral, clonally, closable, coalhole, coalless, coevally, coitally, coleslaw, collaged, collagen, collages, collapse, collards, collared, collaret, collated, collates, collator, collegia, colluvia, collyria, colonial, colossal, columnal, cornball, corollas, coverall, cyclonal, escallop, jackroll, localise, localism, localist, localite, locality, localize, lockable, loculate, locustal, nonlocal, occlusal, ocellate, ocularly, overcall, pollacks, pollical, rocaille, rockfall, rollback, scallion, scallops, socially, teocalli. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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