The difference between Local and Stopper
When used as nouns, local means a person who lives near a given place, whereas stopper means agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
Local is also adjective with the meaning: from or in a nearby location.
Stopper is also verb with the meaning: to close a container by using a stopper.
check bellow for the other definitions of Local and Stopper
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Local as an adjective:
From or in a nearby location.
Examples:
"We prefer local produce."
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Local as an adjective (computing, of a [[variable]] or [[identifier]]):
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
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Local as an adjective (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state):
Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
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Local as an adjective (medicine):
Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
Examples:
"The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia."
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Local as an adjective:
Descended from an indigenous population.
Examples:
"Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population."
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Local as a noun:
A person who lives near a given place.
Examples:
"It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
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Local as a noun:
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
Examples:
"I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
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Local as a noun (rail transport):
A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
Examples:
"The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."
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Local as a noun (British):
One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
Examples:
"I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."
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Local as a noun (programming):
A locally scoped identifier.
Examples:
"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."
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Local as a noun (US, slang, journalism):
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
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Local as a noun (colloquial, medicine):
Examples:
"'1989, ''Road House'', 39:59:"
"Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you a local."
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Stopper as a noun:
Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
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Stopper as a noun:
A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
Examples:
"Put a stopper in the knot."
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Stopper as a noun:
A bung or cork.
Examples:
"We need a stopper or the boat will sink."
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Stopper as a noun (slang, soccer):
Goalkeeper.
Examples:
"He's the number one stopper in the country."
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Stopper as a noun (finance, slang):
In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
Examples:
"Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher."
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Stopper as a noun (rail transport):
A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
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Stopper as a noun (botany):
Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
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Stopper as a noun (nautical):
A short rope for making something fast.
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Stopper as a noun:
A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
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Stopper as a verb:
To close a container by using a stopper.
Examples:
"He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating."
"The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud "hic"."