Regions vs Location - What's the difference?
regions | location |
the rest of the country excluding the capital city or metropolitan region
* 2000 , Emer Hughes,
* 2003 , Peter Hetherington,
A particular point or place in physical space.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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 regions and location
is that regions is plural of lang=en while location is a particular point or place in physical space.regions
English
Noun
(head)Fair city losing out to the regions'', ''Sunday Business Post 7 November:
- Tom Clancy of Elan Recruitment thinks that staff shortages in the regions could be as severe as in Dublin.
Study points civil servants towards the regions'', ''The Guardian , 10 September:
- Three government departments may be named for a move from London to the regions .
Synonyms
* (rest of the country) the provinces (British)Anagrams
* ----location
English
(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