Localとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

lo-cal (comparative more lo-cal, superlative most lo-cal)

1. (informal) (of food または drink) That contains fewer calories than normal

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊkl̩/
• (General American) enPR: lōk′əl, IPA^(key): /ˈloʊkl̩/
• 韻: -əʊkəl

形容詞

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:

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

   Antonym: global

4. (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition または 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.

名詞

local (複数形 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.

   • 2010, “Nothing”, in Science & Faith, performed by The Script:

     As they take me to my local down the street.

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 October 16, Fergal Smiddy, “The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter”, in University Express, University College Cork, Ireland, 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.

副詞

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.

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• “local”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “local”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• local at OneLook Dictionary Search

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