Local vs Natural - 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.
That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
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Without artificial additives.
As expected; reasonable.
* Addison
(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted .
(music) Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(music) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.
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, chapter=5 Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
* J. H. Newman
(obsolete) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard.
(of sexual intercourse) Without a condom.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, page 3:
(music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol used to indicate such a note.
One with an innate talent at or for something.
An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
(archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
* 1597 , , by Shakespeare, Act 2 Scene 4
One's natural life.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, page 155:
*:‘Sergeant-Major Robinson came in in the middle of it, and you've never seen a man look more surprised in your natural .’
As adjectives the difference between local and natural
is that local is from or in a nearby location while natural is that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.As nouns the difference between local and natural
is that local is a person who lives nearby while natural is .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
* * * ----natural
English
(wikipedia natural)Alternative forms
* naturall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Karen McVeigh
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- His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
- What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behaviour of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day?
- the natural motion of a gravitating body
- with strong natural sense, and rare force of will
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- To leave his wife, to leave his babes, / He wants the natural touch.
- natural friends
- a natural child
Synonyms
* (as expected) inevitable, necessary, reasonable * (without a condom)Antonyms
* (exists in an ecosystem) aberrant, abnormal, artificial * (as expected) aberrant, abnormal, freak, unexpected, unreasonableDerived terms
* naturally * naturalness * natural advantages * natural aging * natural breast * natural business year * natural child * natural childbirth * natural daughter * natural death * natural disaster * natural fiber * natural food * natural frequency * natural gas * natural historian * natural history * natural killer cell * natural language * natural language processing * natural law * natural light * natural logarithm * natural medicine * natural monopoly * natural number * natural philosophy * natural religion * natural resources * natural scale * natural science * natural selection * natural slope * natural son * natural theology * natural virtue * natural wastage * natural world * natural-born * naturalise/naturalize * naturalist * unnaturalNoun
(en noun)- I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of the Naturals concluded [...].
- He's a natural on the saxophone.
- (Mercutio) [...] this drivelling love is like a great natural , / that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.