Vancouver vs Location - What's the difference?
vancouver | location |
A family name.
A large city and seaport in British Columbia, Canada
A city in the state of Washington, USA.
A mountain between Alaska and Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
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 a proper noun Vancouver
is a family name.As a noun location is
a particular point or place in physical space.vancouver
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Synonyms
* (Canadian city) Hollywood North (informal), Hongcouver (qualifier), Lotusland (informal), No Fun City (qualifier), Raincouver (informal), Vangroovy (informal).Derived terms
* Vancouverish * Vancouverite * Vancouver IslandReferences
*The True Meaning of Vancouver, Joseph Jones, Vancouver Sun'', 1994-12-31, which in turn cites ''Woordenboek der Noord — en Zuidnederlandse plaatsnamen English eponyms ----
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