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local | bin |

As an adjective local

is from or in a nearby location.

As a noun local

is a person who lives nearby.

local

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • From or in a nearby location.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title= An internet of airborne things
    • , passage=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.}}
  • (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
  • (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) 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.
  • Descended from an indigenous population.

    • Synonyms

    * (medicine) topical

    Antonyms

    * global

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who lives nearby.
    • It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
    • 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.
    • The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local .
  • (British) 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.
  • (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.
  • (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

    • Synonyms

    * (rail transport) stopper

    Antonyms

    * (rail transport) fast, express

    Derived terms

    * localism * locally

    Related terms

    * locus * locality * localization * localize * locate * location * locative * locator

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    bin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
  • A container for rubbish or waste.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins . Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.
    • Synonyms
    * (container) container, receptacle * (container for waste) dustbin, rubbish bin (both British), garbage can, trash can (both US)

    Verb

    (binn)
  • To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  • * 2008 , , Falling Sideways , Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 28:
  • To throw away, reject, give up.
  • * 2002 , Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-210054-8, p. 59:
  • * 2005 , Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia , I.B. Tauris, ISBN 1-850438-89-7, p. 238:
  • (label) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  • (label) To place into a bin for storage.
    • Synonyms
    * (dispose of in a bin) chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See also

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bin bag , bin liner , binman , bread bin , dustbin , rubbish bin , wheelie bin}}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (lb) son of; equivalent to Hebrew .

    • Etymology 3

    Contraction of being

    Contraction

    (en-contraction)
  • (label) Contraction of being

    • Etymology 4

    Contraction of been

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 5

    Short for (binary).

    Noun

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