Locality
[lə(ʊ)'kælɪtɪ] or [lo'kæləti]
Definition
(n.) The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
(n.) Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
(n.) Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.
(n.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Typist: Melba
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Position, situation, place, location.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PLACE]
Typist: Rex
Examples
- Foreign locality, likely. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So simple, so unpretending a locality, to be the scene of so mighty an event! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At the home I was guided to the library by an Irish servant-woman, to whom I communicated my knowledge of the definite locality of the sample joint. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As to the shops and the locality: The street was lined with rather old buildings and poor tenements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In this locality the rubber harvest commences as soon as the Amazon falls which is usually about the first of August. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These were the great advantages I looked to, but our locality was a gain to us also in another and a hardly less important respect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They could change the nature and locality of their possessions with an unheard-of freedom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The waters of Chesapeake Bay are a favorite locality for them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Cruncher was so bewildered that he could think of no locality but Temple Bar. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The Black Forest region of South Germany became a famous locality for the manufacture of cheap wooden clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She went there the next day, having been informed of the locality in which the house was situated by Anne herself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The first thing the astronomers did was to determine with precision their exact locality upon the earth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Why hovered before my distempered vision the mere furniture, while the rooms and the locality were gone? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is not possible that there can be any mistake about the locality of the Crucifixion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is a cheap source of illumination, but is found in relatively few localities and only in limited quantity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Archeologists have deprived the Greeks of this gift, and carried back its origin to remoter ages and localities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This sea bottom, in localities near land, is abundantly sown with wrecks, old and new, and in many cases bearing permanently valuable cargoes, such as gold and coal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The first thing necessary in many localities is to clarify the water. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Canada has gold fields in several localities, the richest being those of the Klondike. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Since then, 125,000 oil wells have been drilled in that and neighbouring localities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In this region, where the annual rainfall exceeds forty inches, and in some localities is almost tropical, the young student's atte ntion was early drawn to meteorology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Two of the colonels also entered the service from other localities. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Woods, rocks and mountains produce natural echoes in every variety, for which particular localities have become famous. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Every body was anxious to get ashore and visit these classic localities as quickly as possible. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For this reason it is easy to recognize the distinct flavors of honey produced in different localities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The flint-lock was used by armies well into the nineteenth century, and is still in private use in remote localities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And too often we have been glad when it was time to go home and be distressed no more about illustrious localities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My ignorance of other localities in the neighbourhood of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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