Local vs Vendor - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between local and vendor is that local is a person who lives nearby while vendor is a person or a company that vends or sells. As an adjective local is from or in a nearby location.
local English
Adjective
( en adjective)
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.
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Descended from an indigenous population.
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Synonyms
* (medicine) topical
Antonyms
* global
Noun
( en noun)
A person who lives nearby.
- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
(rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local .
(British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- I got barred from my local , so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
(programming) A locally scoped identifier.
- 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.
(US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Synonyms
* (rail transport) stopper
Antonyms
* (rail transport) fast, express
Derived terms
* localism
* locally
Related terms
* locus
* locality
* localization
* localize
* locate
* location
* locative
* locator
External links
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vendor Alternative forms
* vender
Noun
A person or a company that vends or sells.
Synonyms
* merchant
* seller
Related terms
* vend
* vending machine
* vendor bid
See also
* Spanish: vender (to sell)
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