local
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.kl̩/
enpr: lōk′əl
ipa: /ˈloʊ.kl̩/
rhymes: -əʊkəl
Forms: form: locals
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”).
The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.
Senses: examples: text: It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
text: 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.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
glosses: A person who lives in or near a given place.
examples: text: I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
text: Citing the risk involved with being out as a gay person and a union activist while simultaneously dealing with racism, Susan notes that there are no out gays or lesbians of color in her local, though its membership is about 80 percent people of color.
ref: 1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 18:
glosses: A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
examples: text: The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: stopper
antonyms: fast
express
glosses: Clipping of local train.
examples: text: I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
text: As they take me to my local down the street.
ref: 2010, “Nothing”, in Science & Faith, performed by The Script:
glosses: One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
examples: text: 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.
text: Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.
ref: 2012, Cesar Otero, Rob Larsen, Professional jQuery, page 25:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A locally scoped identifier.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1989, Road House, page 39:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of local anesthetic.
examples: text: On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.
ref: 2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management, page 316:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: floor trader
glosses: An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
examples: text: 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", […]
ref: 2018, Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend", The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018, page 25
text: Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.
ref: 2018 October 16, Fergal Smiddy, “The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter”, in University Express, University College Cork, Ireland, page 11:
text: Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.
ref: 2019, Avin Abelardo, "Deep Dive Into The World Of Troll Twitter Memes", Echoes (University of the Philippines), February/March 2019, page 60
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.