Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make local.
- intransitive verb To confine or restrict to a particular locality.
- intransitive verb To attribute to a particular locality.
- intransitive verb To become local, especially to become fixed in one area or part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make local; fix in, or assign to or restrict to, a particular place; determine the locality or limit the extent of.
- Specifically To refer (a sensation) in perception to some point of the body or to some point in space outside of the body. See
localization , 2. - Also spelled
localise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
local ; to fix in, orassign to, a definite place. - verb software engineering To adapt a product for use in a particular country or region, typically by translating text into the language of that country or region and, if necessary, ensuring support of different character sets.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb locate
- verb concentrate on a particular place or spot
- verb restrict something to a particular area
- verb identify the location or place of
Etymologies
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Examples
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We hear a lot about how Democrats have to "localize" the elections to have a chance of victory in November.
Robert Creamer: Dirty Little Secrets the Republicans Don't Want You to Know 2010
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"Everyone else goes really big in late-night and we kind of localize it and just host a small little cocktail party at 11 p.m. and it's having great results."
Watch What Happens: Live: The Little Late-Night Show That Could 2010
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We hear a lot about how Democrats have to "localize" the elections to have a chance of victory in November.
Dirty Little Secrets the Republicans Don't Want You to Know 2010
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The problem with the "localize" message is that the Democrats will effectively argue that this candidate would be just "same old Republican."
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When one tried to "localize" the position of an electron by specifying its location more and more precisely, the mathematics required that the momentum (mass times velocity) of the electron must become less localized and more uncertain.
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Chang last week attacked the simultaneous tour by Qian, accusing his mainland rival of seeking to "suppress the international existence" of Taiwan and to "localize" the nationalist island.
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How Gabler could "localize" whether changes were authorial or not without knowing which were in Joyce's ink and which in the printer's pencil mystifies her.
'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988
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Austria-Hungary and Serbia, wishing to "localize" the conflict, and proposes mediation of powers between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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Ways to help students understand and "localize" the big education news this fall.
NYT > Home Page By TAMARA BEST 2010
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Ways to help students understand and "localize" the big education news this fall.
NYT > Home Page By TAMARA BEST 2010
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