Local vs Heart - What's the difference?
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From or in a nearby location.
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(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.
A person who lives nearby.
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
(rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
(British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
(programming) A locally scoped identifier.
(US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
(anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
(uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
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The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense.
Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
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Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
* Dryden
(obsolete)
* Shakespeare
A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: or sometimes <3.
* 1998 , Pat Cadigan, Tea From an Empty Cup , page 106:
A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
The centre, essence, or core.
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(transitive, poetic, or, humorous) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
* 1905 , Capt. James, William Wordsworth (editor), Poems and Extracts ,
* 2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, "The Heart Has Its Reasons", Commonweal
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* 2008 January 30, "Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton", The Guardian (London)
* 2008' July 25, "The Media '''Hearts Obama?", ''On The Media , National Public Radio
(obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
* Shakespeare
(masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
(intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
As nouns the difference between local and heart
is that local is a person who lives nearby while heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.As an adjective local
is from or in a nearby location.As a verb heart is
to be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.local
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
An internet of airborne things
Synonyms
* (medicine) topicalAntonyms
* globalNoun
(en noun)- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local .
- I got barred from my local , so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (rail transport) stopperAntonyms
* (rail transport) fast, expressDerived terms
* localism * locallyExternal links
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English
(wikipedia heart)Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Noun
- The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart .
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- "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
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- a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
- Eve, recovering heart , replied.
- The expelled nations take heart , and when they fly from one country invade another.
- That the spent earth may gather heart again.
- I speak to thee, my heart .
- "Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.
- The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
- Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
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- At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.
Derived terms
* artichoke heart * at heart * be still my heart * bleeding heart * break someone's heart * by heart * change of heart * cockles of the heart * * congestive heart failure * coronary heart disease * dishearten * eat one's heart out * from the bottom of one's heart * good-hearted * halfhearted * hard-hearted * have one's heart in the right place * heartache * heart attack * heartbeat * heart block * heartbreak * heartbreaker * heart-breaking * heartbroken * heartburn * heart disease * hearten * heart failure * heartfelt * heart-free * heart-healthy * heartland * heartless * heart-lung machine * heart pine * heartrending * heartsease * heartsick * heartsome * heartsore * heart-stopping * heartstring * heartthrob * heart-to-heart * heartwarming * heart-whole * heartwood * heartworm * hearty * heavy heart * home is where the heart is * lose heart * lose one's heart * open-heart/open-heart surgery * pour one's heart out * Purple Heart * put one's heart on one's sleeve * set one's heart on * single-hearted * sweetheart * take heart * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wholeheartedVerb
(en verb)- I heart to pray their bones may rest in peace
- We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.
Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com
- I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.
- The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.
- My cause is hearted ; thine hath no less reason.
