Vicinity vs Location - What's the difference?
vicinity | location |
Proximity, or the state of being near.
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, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
Neighbourhood, or the nearby region.
Approximate size or amount.
A particular point or place in physical space.
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, title= An act of locating.
* 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. ''v.'' Snodgrass'', reprinted in, 1887, , volume 12, page 207 [http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location]:
(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
* 2011 , Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
As nouns the difference between vicinity and location
is that vicinity is (proximity, or the state of being near)Proximity, or the state of being near while location is a particular point or place in physical space.vicinity
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Noun
(wikipedia vicinity) (vicinities)location
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(wikipedia location)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations
