What is the difference between local and localize?

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Localize is a related term of local.

As an adjective local

is from or in a nearby location.

As a noun local

is a person who lives nearby.

As a verb localize is

to make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.

local

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

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.

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

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localize

English

Alternative forms

* (UK) localise

Verb

(localiz)

To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.

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To adapt a product for use in a particular country or region, typically by translating text into the language of that country or region and, if necessary, ensuring support of different character sets.

We need to localize our software for the Japanese market.