Traditional vs Local - What's the difference?
traditional | local |
Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
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.
As adjectives the difference between traditional and local
is that traditional is of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures while local is from or in a nearby location.As a noun local is
a person who lives nearby.traditional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I think her traditional values are antiquated .
Antonyms
* nontraditional, non-traditional * untraditionalDerived terms
* traditionallylocal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
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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.