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

  1. Local as an adjective:

    From or in a nearby location.

    Examples:

    "We prefer local produce."

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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."

  5. Local as an adjective:

    Descended from an indigenous population.

    Examples:

    "Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population."

  1. Local as a noun:

    A person who lives near a given place.

    Examples:

    "It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."

  2. Local as a noun:

    A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

    Examples:

    "I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."

  3. 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."

  4. 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."

  5. 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."

  6. Local as a noun (US, slang, journalism):

    An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

  7. 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."

  1. Stopper as a noun:

    Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.

  2. 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."

  3. Stopper as a noun:

    A bung or cork.

    Examples:

    "We need a stopper or the boat will sink."

  4. Stopper as a noun (slang, soccer):

    Goalkeeper.

    Examples:

    "He's the number one stopper in the country."

  5. 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."

  6. 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.

  7. Stopper as a noun (botany):

    Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.

  8. Stopper as a noun (nautical):

    A short rope for making something fast.

  9. Stopper as a noun:

    A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.

  1. 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"."

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