Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 43
Loaf (v. t.) 閒混，虛度（光陰），消磨（時間）[（+away）] To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
Loaf (n.) A shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating [syn: {loaf of bread}, {loaf}].
Loaf (n.) A quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape; "meat loaf"; "sugar loaf"; "a loaf of cheese".
Loaf (v.) Be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: {bum}, {bum around}, {bum about}, {arse around}, {arse about}, {fuck off}, {loaf}, {frig around}, {waste one's time}, {lounge around}, {loll}, {loll around}, {lounge about}].
Loaf (v.) Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: {loiter}, {lounge}, {footle}, {lollygag}, {loaf}, {lallygag}, {hang around}, {mess about}, {tarry}, {linger}, {lurk}, {mill about}, {mill around}].
Loaf (n.) A quantity of bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and usually sliced before being eaten.
‘A loaf of bread.’
‘A granary loaf.’
Loaf (n.) An item of food formed into an oblong shape and sliced into portions.
Half a loaf is better than no bread (ph.) [Proverb] It is better to accept less than one wants or expects than to have nothing at all.
Use one's loaf (ph.) [Informal] Use one's common sense.
Loaf (v.) [No object] Spend one's time in an aimless, idle way.
‘Don't let him see you loafing about with your hands in your pockets.’
Loafer (n.) 遊手好閒的人 One who loafs; a lazy lounger.
Loafer (n.) A person who avoids work and spends their time idly.
Loafer (n.) 平跟船鞋 A leather shoe shaped like a moccasin, with a flat heel.
‘His handmade Italian loafers.’
Compare: Moccasin
Moccasin (n.) （北美印第安人穿的）鹿皮軟鞋 [P]；軟幫鞋，燒賣鞋 [P] A soft leather slipper or shoe, strictly one without a separate heel, having the sole turned up on all sides and sewn to the upper in a simple gathered seam, in a style originating among North American Indians.
Moccasin (n.) A venomous American pit viper.
Genus Agkistrodon, family Viperidae: three species, in particular the water (or cottonmouth) moccasin (see cottonmouth) and the highland moccasin (see copperhead).
Moccasin (n.) (Snake) Written by: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
See Article History.
Alternative Title: Agkistrodon
Moccasin, (genus Agkistrodon), either of two venomous aquatic New World snakes of the viper family (Viperidae): the water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) or the Mexican moccasin (A. bilineatus). Both are pit vipers (subfamily Crotalinae), so named because of the characteristic sensory pit between each eye and nostril.
The water moccasin inhabits marshy lowlands of the southeastern United States. It is also known as the cottonmouth, because it threatens with the mouth open, showing the white interior. It measures up to 1.5 metres (5 feet) in length and is brown with darker crossbands or completely black. A dangerous snake with a potentially lethal bite, the cottonmouth tends to stand its ground or move slowly away when alarmed. It eats almost any small animal, including turtles, fish, frogs, and birds.
The Mexican moccasin, or cantil, is found in lowland regions from the Rio Grande to Nicaragua. It is a dangerous snake and is brown or black with narrow irregular whitish bars on its back and sides. It is usually about 1 metre (3.3 feet) long. Moccasins are live-bearers (viviparous) rather than egg layers. For highland moccasin, see copperhead.
Compare: Cottonmouth
Cottonmouth (n.) (Also Cottonmouth moccasin)【動】百步蛇；水棲蝮蛇 A large, dangerous semiaquatic pit viper that inhabits lowland swamps and waterways of the south-eastern US. When threatening it opens its mouth wide to display the white interior.
Agkistrodon piscivorus, family Viperidae
Also called Water moccasin
Cottonmouth (n.) [US informal] Dryness of the mouth.
‘I often have cotton mouth and a headache when I wake up.’
Loam (n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain. -- Hooker.
Loam (n.) (Founding) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.
Loam mold (Founding), A mold made with loam. See Loam, n., 2.
Loam molding, The process or business of making loam molds.
Loam plate, An iron plate upon which a section of a loam mold rests, or from which it is suspended.
Loam work, Loam molding or loam molds.
Loam (n.) A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
Loamed (imp. & p. p.) of Loam.
Loaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loam.
Loam (v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
Loamy (a.) Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. -- Bacon.
Loamy (a.) Consisting of or having the character of loam; "richy loamy soil" [ant: loamless].
Loan (n.) A loanin. [Scot.]
Loan (n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
Loan (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
Loan office. (a) An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender.
Loan office. (b) A pawnbroker's shop.
Loaned (imp. & p. p.) of Loan.
Loaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loan.
Loan (v. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out. -- Kent.
By way of location or loaning them out. -- J. Langley (1644).
Loan (n.) The temporary provision of money (usually at interest).
Loan (n.) A word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English [syn: loanword, loan].
Loan (v.) Give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money" [syn: lend, loan] [ant: borrow].
Loan, () The Mosaic law required that when an Israelite needed to borrow, what he asked was to be freely lent to him, and no interest was to be charged, although interest might be taken of a foreigner (Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:19, 20; Lev. 25:35-38). At the end of seven years all debts were remitted. Of a foreigner the loan might, however, be exacted. At a later period of the Hebrew commonwealth, when commerce increased, the practice of exacting usury or interest on loans, and of suretiship in the commercial sense, grew up. Yet the exaction of it from a Hebrew was regarded as discreditable (Ps. 15:5; Prov. 6:1, 4; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 27:13; Jer. 15:10).
Limitations are prescribed by the law to the taking of a pledge from the borrower. The outer garment in which a man slept at night, if taken in pledge, was to be returned before sunset (Ex. 22:26, 27; Deut. 24:12, 13). A widow's garment (Deut. 24:17) and a millstone (6) could not be taken. A creditor could not enter the house to reclaim a pledge, but must remain outside till the borrower brought it (10, 11). The Hebrew debtor could not be retained in bondage longer than the seventh year, or at farthest the year of jubilee (Ex. 21:2; Lev. 25:39, 42), but foreign sojourners were to be "bondmen for ever" (Lev. 25:44-54).
Loan, () contracts. The act by which a person lets another have a thing to be used by him gratuitously, and which is to be returned, either in specie or in kind, agreeably to the terms of the contract. The thing which is thus transferred is also called a loan. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1077.
Loan, () A loan in general implies that a thing is lent without reward; but, in some cases, a loan may be for a reward; as, the loan of money. 7 Pet. R. 109.
Loan, () In order to make a contract usurious, there must be a loan; Cowp. 112, 770; 1 Ves. jr. 527; 2 Bl. R. 859; 3 Wils. 390 and the borrower must be bound to return the money at all events. 2 Scho. & Lef. 470. The purchase of a bond or note is not a loan ; 3 Scho. & Lef. 469; 9 Pet. R 103; but if such a purchase be merely colorable, it will be considered as a loan. 2 John. Cas. 60; Id. 66; 12 S. & R. 46; 15 John. R. 44.
Loanable (a.) Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.
Loanin (n.) Alt. of Loaning.
Loaning (n.) An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Loanmonger (n.) A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
The millions of the loanmonger. -- Beaconsfield.
Loath (a.) Hateful; odious; disliked. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Loath (a.) Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part.
Full loth were him to curse for his tithes.-- Chaucer.
Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content. -- Shak.
Loath (a.) Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake" [syn: loath, loth, reluctant].
Loath (a.) (Usually followed by `to') Strongly opposed; "antipathetic to new ideas"; "averse to taking risks"; "loath to go on such short notice"; "clearly indisposed to grant their request" [syn: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse(p), indisposed(p), loath(p), loth(p)].
Loathed (imp. & p. p.) of Loathe.
Loathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loathe.
Loathe (v. t.) To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. -- Cowley.
Loathe (v. t.) To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate ; to detest.
The secret which I loathe. -- Waller.
She loathes the vital sir. -- Dryden.
Syn: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.
Loathe (v. i.) To feel disgust or nausea. [Obs.]
Loathe (v.) Find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate].
Loather (n.) One who loathes.
Loather (n.) One who hates or loathes [syn: abominator, loather].
Loathful (a.) Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. "Loathful eyes." -- Spenser.
Loathful (a.) Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.
Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust. -- Spenser.
Loathing (n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races. -- Macaulay.
Loathing (n.) Hate coupled with disgust [syn: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium].
Loathingly (adv.) With loathing.
Loathliness (n.) Loathsomeness. [Obs.]
Loathly (a.) Loathsome. [Obs.] " Loathly mouth." -- Spenser.
Loathly (adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly.
This shows that you from nature loathly stray. -- Donne.
Loathly (adv.) So as to cause loathing. [Obs.]
With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight. -- Fairfax.
Loathly (a.) Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky].
Loathness (n.) Unwillingness; reluctance.
A general silence and loathness to speak. -- Bacon.
Loathsome (a.) Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting ; as, a loathsome disease.
The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. -- Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.
Loathsome (a.) Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile].
Loathsome (a.) Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky].
Loathy (a.) Loathsome. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Loaf (n.; pl. Loaves.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. -- Bacon.
Loaf sugar, Refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.
Compare: Pollack
Pollack (n.) (Zool.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.
Pollack (n.) (Zool.) (b) The American pollock; the coalfish.
Pollock (n.) [See Pollack.] (Zool.) A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.
Loaves (n.) pl. of Loaf.
Lob (n.) A dull, heavy person. " Country lobs." -- Gauden.
Lob (n.) Something thick and heavy.
Lobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Lob.
Lobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lob.
Lob (v. t.) To let fall heavily or lazily.
And their poor jades Lob down their heads. -- Shak.
Lob (v. t.) to propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy.
To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), To strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.
Lob (v. t.) (Mining) See Cob, v. t.
Lob (n.) (Zool.) The European pollock.
Lob (n.) The act of lobbing; specif., an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net.
Lob (n.) An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
Lob (n.) The act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc.
Lob (v.) Propel in a high arc; "lob the tennis ball."
Lobar (a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes. Lobate
Lobar (a.) Of or relating to or affecting a lobe; "lobar pneumonia."
Lobate (a.) Alt. of Lobated.
Lobated (a.) (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.
Lobated (a.) (Zool.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.
Lobated (a.) (Zool.) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.
Lobate (a.) Having or resembling a lobe or lobes; "a lobate tongue" [syn: lobate, lobated].
Lobate (a.) Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other [syn: lobed, lobate].
Lobately (adv.) As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.
Lobbish (a.) Like a lob; consisting of lobs. -- Sir. P. Sidney.
Lobbies (n. pl. ) of Lobby.
Lobby (n.) (Arch.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
Lobby (n.) That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; hence: any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency; a group of lobbyists for a particular cause; as, the drug industry lobby. [U. S.]
Lobby (n.) (Naut.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
Lobby (n.) (Agric.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
Lobby
member, A
lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.]
Lobbied (imp. & p. p.) of Lobby.
Lobbying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lobby.
Lobby (v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes; in an extended sense, to try to influence decision-makers in any circumstance. [U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Lobby (v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill ; -- also used with the legislators as object; as, to lobby the state legislatuire for protection. [U.S.]
Lobby (n.) A large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule].
Lobby (n.) The people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest.
Lobby (n.) A group of people who try actively to influence legislation [syn: lobby, pressure group, third house].
Lobby (v.) Detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors [syn: lobby, buttonhole].
Lobbyist (n.) A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. [U.S.]
Lobbyist (n.) Someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer.
Lobcock (n.) A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. [Low]
Lobe (n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form; as:
Lobe (n.) (Bot.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf. -- Gray.
Lobe (n.) (Zool.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.
Lobe (n.) (Anat.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain.
Lobe (n.) (Mach.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.
Lobe of the ear, the soft, fleshy prominence in which the human ear terminates below, also called the earlobe.
See. Illust. of Ear.
Lobe (n.) (Anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part; "ear lobe."
Lobe (n.) (Botany) A part into which a leaf is divided.
Lobe (n.) The enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern.
Lobe (n.) A rounded projection that is part of a larger structure.
Lobed (a.) Having lobes; lobate.
Lobed (a.) Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other [syn: lobed, lobate].
Lobefoot (n.) (Zool.) A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.
Lobe-footed (a.) (Zool.) Lobiped.
Lobelet (n.) (Bot.) A small lobe; a lobule.
Lobelia (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.
Lobelia (n.) Any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia.
Lobeliaceous (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.
Lobeliaceous (a.) Belonging to the family Lobeliaceae.
Lobelin (n.) (Med.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.
Lobeline (n.) (Chem.) A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco ({Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.
Lobiped (a.) (Zool.) Having lobate toes, as a coot.
Loblolly (n.) Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.
Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia ({Gordonia Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree ({Laplacea h[ae]matoxylon).
Loblolly boy, A surgeon's attendant on shipboard. -- Smollett.
Loblolly pine (Bot.), A kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine ({Pinus T[ae]da). Also, Pinus Bahamensis, of the West Indies.
Loblolly tree (Bot.), A name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.
Loblolly (n.) Thick gruel.
Lobosa (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.
Lobscouse (n.) (Naut.) A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.
Lobscouse (n.) A stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors [syn: lobscouse, lobscuse, scouse].
Lobsided (a.) See Lopsided.
Lobspound (n.) A prison. [Obs.] -- Hudibras.
Lobster (n.) (Zool.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster ({Homarus Americanus), and the European lobster ({Homarus vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster ({Nephrops Norvegicus}) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws.
The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.
Lobster (n.) As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person. [Slang]
Lobster caterpillar (Zool.), The caterpillar of a European bombycid moth ({Stauropus fagi); -- so called from its form.
Lobster louse (Zool.), A copepod crustacean ({Nicotho["e] astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.
Lobster (n.) Flesh of a lobster.
Lobster (n.) Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae.
Lobular (a.) Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.
Lobular (a.) Of or relating to or resembling a lobule.
Lobulate (a.) Alt. of Lobulated.
Lobulated (a.) Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.
Lobule (n.) A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.
Lobule (n.) A small lobe or subdivision of a lobe.
Lobulette (n.) (Anat.) A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.
Lobworm (n.) (Zool.) The lugworm.
Lugworm (n.) (Zool.) A large marine annelid ({Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm.
Lobworm (n.) Marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait [syn: lugworm, lug, lobworm].
Local (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. -- Shak.
Local actions (Law), Actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished from transitory actions.
Local affection (Med.), A disease or ailment confined to a particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the system.
Local attraction (Magnetism), An attraction near a compass, causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction, especially on shipboard.
Local battery (Teleg.), The battery which actuates the recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for the line.
Local circuit (Teleg.), The circuit of the local battery.
Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not caused by accidental influences, as of reflection, shadow, etc.
Local color. (b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is laid.
Local option, The right or obligation of determining by popular vote within certain districts, as in each county, city, or town, whether the sale of alcoholic beverages within the district shall be allowed.
Local (n.) (Railroad) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]
Local (n.) In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [U.S.]
Local (n.) A train or bus which stops at all stations along a line, as contrasted with an express, which stops only at certain stations designated as express stops.
Local (a.) Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area; "local taxes"; "local authorities" [ant: national].
Local (a.) Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood; "local customs"; "local schools"; "the local citizens"; "a local point of view"; "local outbreaks of flu"; "a local bus line."
Local (a.) Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; "local anesthesia" [ant: general].
Local (n.) Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops; "the local seemed to take forever to get to New York" [ant: express, limited].
Local (n.) Anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body [syn: local anesthetic, local anaesthetic, local, topical anesthetic, topical anaesthetic].
Local. () Pertaining to a place; something annexed to the freehold or tied to a certain place; as, local courts, or courts whose jurisdiction is limited to a particular place; local allegiance, or allegiance due while you are in a particular place or country; local taxes, or those which are collected for particular districts.
Locale (n.) A place, spot, or location.
Locale (n.) A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.
Locale (n.) The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) [syn: venue, locale, locus].
Locale, () A geopolitical place or area, especially in the context of configuring an operating system or application program with its character sets, date and time formats, currency formats etc.
Locales are significant for internationalisation and localisation.
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Localism (n.) The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.
Localism (n.) A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.
Localism (n.) A phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality.
Localism (n.) Apartiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism, provincialism, localism].
Localitiees (n. pl. ) of Locality.
Locality (n.) 地區；場所，現場 [C]；方位 [U] In sequential architectures programs tend to access data that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is at an address near recently referenced data (spatial locality). This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a cache memory.
Locality (n.) In a multi-processor architecture with distributed memory it takes longer to access the memory attached to a different processor. This overhead increases with the number of communicating processors. Thus to efficiently employ many processors on a problem we must increase the proportion of references which are to local memory.
Locality (n.) The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. -- Glanvill.
Locality (n.) Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
Locality (n.) Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. -- Blackstone.