regionaladj.n.
/ˈriːdʒn̩(ə)l/, /ˈriːdʒən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈridʒ(ə)nəl/ A. adj.
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a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a region or regions; (sometimes) spec. of or relating to a system of administrative or governmental regions (see region n. 4a).
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the world > space > place > [adjective] > relating to a particular place
regional?a1425
local?c1500
topical1588
territorial1606
topic1610
regionary1654
regionic1871
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [adjective]
regional?a1425
locala1639
cantonal1842
departmental1883
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [adjective] > relating to large division
regional?a1425
provincial1594
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 42 Boicium is holden of many men a sikenez Regionale & of countree [?c1425 Paris of þe contre; L. regionalis] & hereditarie, i. of heritage.
1654 H. Hammond Answer Animadversions on Diss. touching Ignatius's Epist. vi. 159 The Apostles..planting a Church in a chief Citie, and extending the Faith to the Region about it,..annext the Regional-Church to the City-Church.
1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 49 Especially if..we could skill to modifie also the Air about them, and make the remedy as well regional as topical.
1715 T. Creech tr. Lucretius Of Nature of Things (new ed.) II. vi. 738 When that infected Air comes into our Country, it corrupts the whole Air of it; from whence arises a regional Distemper, which spreads itself thro' many Places.
1745 B. Parker Surv. 6 Days Wks. Creation 45 Breaking their Links and Chains in their Regional Residence.
1835 Trans. 4th Ann. Meeting Western Literary Inst. vi. 165 It is not a local, a regional or a secular religion.
1872 Fortn. Rev. 1 May 485 This regional system, with its large local liberties and administration was set aside. In its place was substituted a centralized scheme.
1888 Times 23 June 5/5 The regional shows held in the different departments of France.
1921 G. D. H. Cole Future of Local Govt. ii. 15 There is an overwhelming case, from the standpoint of public convenience and efficiency of service, for the regional planning of publicly owned road transport services.
1934 H. C. Wyld in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXIX. 604 The various Regional or Provincial dialects.
1957 G. L. Goodwin Brit. & United Nations 459 The prospects of world peace will turn not on the United Nations but on the effectiveness of global and regional balances of power.
1976 C. A. Smith Regional Anal. I. p. xi Careful field studies of markets and regional economics..would have identified regional patterns not predicted by central-place theory..thereby stimulating the development of new regional system theories.
2003 Time Out N.Y. 11 Sept. 54/2 She turns out splashy, stunning regional dishes.
b. British. Of or relating to a broadcasting region or regions (region n. 4b); (sometimes) spec. of or relating to the Regional programme (now historical). Regional programme n. now historical a BBC radio service operating during the 1930s, begun to offer an alternative to the National programme (National Programme n. at national adj. and n. Compounds), and produced in differing versions for transmission in different broadcasting regions.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [adjective] > relating to broadcasting region
regional1926
network1932
1926 Times 28 July 10/3 The new regional scheme of high-power stations..will bring the whole of the population..within a service area of broadcasting distribution, allowing of a selection of at least two simultaneous programmes.
1930 B.B.C. Year-bk. 30 The Regional Stations of Daventry, London, and Manchester will cover about 75 per cent. of the population.
1939 Times 12 Aug. 8/4 The first part of the programme will be relayed from the Queen's Hall to the Regional programme at 8.
1965 A. Briggs Golden Age of Wireless 36 By 1934..there was more light entertainment on the National than on the Regional service.
1998 R. Negrine Television & Press ii. 57 What the commercial broadcasters feared was the relay operator's ability to import signals from one regional television area into another and so totally undermine the regional structure of commercial television.
2007 Coventry Tel. (Nexis) 12 Sept. Jack..began his musical career in the cinema..before joining the BBC making his first broadcast as a solo pianist on the Midland Regional Programme in 1930.
2.
a. Of or relating to a particular region or regions of the body or of an organ.
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the world > life > the body > part of body > [adjective] > region
regional1829
regionic1871
1829 W. E. Horner Treat. Pathol. Anat. p. xx The arrangement is nearly on the same plan with Morgagni's, depending upon the regional or topographic distribution of the body.
1830 Lancet 17 July 624/1 He..makes no reference whatever to regional, functional, developmental, or comparative anatomy.
1861 O. W. Holmes Med. Ess. in Wks. (1891) IX. 224 It is curious that the Japanese should have anticipated Europe in a kind of rude regional anatomy.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 271 The regional diagnosis of cerebral disease is, in some instances, comparatively easy.
1926 Amer. Mercury Apr. 399/2 He was..already an adept in the indefinite prolongation of regional anaesthesia.
1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) viii. 98 The plague bacilli..pass to the regional lymph glands and form the characteristic buboes.
1967 Brain 90 633 These observations of whole-brain norepinephrine were confirmed and extended by regional brain studies.
2002 L. Gold Good Hosp. Guide 40 A regional anaesthetic is when you are given an injection to make a large part of your body, such as a whole limb, numb.
b. Medicine. Designating a form of inflammatory bowel disease that is characteristically localized or segmental (as opposed to continuous) in distribution (Crohn's disease). Esp. in regional ileitis, regional enteritis.
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1932 B. B. Crohn et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 99 1327/2 In regional ileitis, all of the damaged tissue is proximal to the valve.
1956 Times 11 June 10/6 There are two forms of ileitis, or inflammation of the lower part of the small intestine. One is localized to one part of the ileum, the other, known as regional ileitis, involves different sections of it.
1975 Gastroenterology 69 235 We report herein 2 cases that demonstrated the uncommon association of cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa with regional enterocolitis.
1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. lxxxvi. 476 Regional enteritis is a rare disease.
2007 Danville (Va.) Reg. & Bee 14 Mar. c1/2 If someone were to drink very large quantities of very strong tea and/or they had an intestinal disorder such as regional enteritis, it is possible that the oxalate in the tea could contribute to stone formation.
B. n.
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a. Originally and chiefly North American. An organization, business, etc., which operates on a regional (as opposed to a national) basis; esp. a regional stock exchange, bank, or airline. Cf. national n. 7c.
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1913 Washington Post 29 Oct. 1/3 The talk in the committee yesterday ran in the direction of the adoption of the regional reserve bank plan of the Owen-Glass bill, with a reduction in the number of regionals to five or six.
1937 Times 4 Oct. 16/2 Mr Campbell is one of the Central Council's travelling representatives, whose business it is to visit the various ‘Regionals’ now in course of formation.
1965 Time 3 Sept. 58 Because of this growth..the cost of seats on the regionals has been rising steadily.
1982 New York 13 Dec. 20/3 In 1977, before deregulation went into effect, the regionals had 11 percent of the domestic-travel market.
1991 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 20/5 Foreign banks and a few money centres and regionals are gaining business at the expense of several US money centres and regionals.
2008 Australian (Nexis) 29 Feb. 40 He said the regionals were changing their work practices so that they were more like the bigger airlines.
b. Originally and chiefly North American. A regional contest or competition. Chiefly in plural. Cf. national n. 7a.
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1922 Indianapolis Star 13 Jan. (heading) Sectional net winners assigned to regionals.
1956 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 9 237/2 It is a ‘festival’ and the contest element is limited to selecting at the regionals the plays that will go on to state finals.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Mar. d8 This year the NCAA basketball committee sent Holy Cross to the Mideast Regional, where it lost yesterday to Michigan.
2006 Times Jrnl. (St. Thomas, Ont.) (Nexis) 7 Apr. 11 Five other Thunder teams competed at the regionals.
c. A regional broadcaster or broadcast. Cf. sense A. 1b.
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society > communication > broadcasting > radio broadcasting > [noun] > radio service > specific
Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 51920
2LO1923
National Programme1930
regional1930
national1931
Home Programme1939
home service1939
World Service1939
Light Programme1945
Third Programme1946
home1947
light1948
VOA1949
national service1956
1930 Times 7 Nov. 12/4 The National programme already provides one full-length and formal symphony concert on Wednesday which is also broadcast by all transmitters other than London and Midland Regionals.
1936 J. Reith Diary 20 Jan. (1975) iii. 185 We got it [sc. a statement] out at 9.38 as we had to collect all the Regionals and Empire.
1936 Musical Times June 511/1 The West Regional seems helpfully active in bringing out native music. Up, the Regionals!
1971 D. G. Bridson Prospero & Ariel viii. 177 Back in the thirties, there had been two nation~wide broadcast programmes, the National and the Regional.
1978 Broadcast 27 Feb. 4/2 A balance between the majors and regionals has emerged.
2007 P. Strongman Pretty Vacant (2008) x. 204 Radio One, Capital and the regionals were not going to have their obliging friends at CBS HQ so publicly mocked.
d. Something issued or published in or for a particular region; esp. a regional newspaper or stamp. Cf. national n. 7b.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > other types of newspaper
gazette1607
contemporary1670
packet1678
exchange1798
funny paper1837
blanket sheet1839
broadsheet1840
special1861
cocoa press1907
bladder1936
regional1958
electronic paper1967
free1982
1958 Gibbons Stamp Monthly 1 Sept. 2/3 Pictorials can be captioned—to most people these Regionals will be confusingly anonymous.
1967 Times 7 Sept. 19/2 The national commercial TV journal..will replace the six present regionals next summer.
1975 B. Gunston Philatelist's Compan. 247 Regional, a stamp issued for use in only part of the territory under the authority of a postal administration (eg Scotland, in the case of the UK).
2000 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 16 Nov. 75 The Texas edition [of the Wall Street Journal] was the first of the regionals, launched in 1993.
2. Geology. The part of a gravity anomaly or magnetic anomaly that is due to deep features and varies only gradually from place to place.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > gravity > [noun] > local departure from normal > specific
residual1895
regional1940
low1954
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > earth magnetism > [noun] > local variation > parts of
residual1895
regional1940
1940 L. L. Nettleton Geophysical Prospecting for Oil xii. 222 If this regional is properly estimated and removed,..the local features will show up in their proper form and relief.
1954 Geophysics 19 1 The problem of regionals and residuals arises in all geophysical methods which are based on measurement of a ‘potential’ field.
1996 Jrnl. Appl. Geophys. 36 89 The least-squares minimization method can be used to determine the depth of a buried structure..using regionals of successive windows.
Compounds
regional metamorphism n. [after French métamorphisme régional ( G. A. Daubrée Études et expériences synthetiques sur le métamorphisme (1860) ii. ii. 59)] Geology metamorphism affecting rocks over an extensive area as a result of the large-scale action of heat and pressure.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > metamorphism > [noun]
metamorphism1845
regional metamorphism1861
contact metamorphism1876
plutonometamorphism1889
thermo-metamorphism1889
anamorphism1904
katamorphism1904
symphrattism1904
1859 T. S. Hunt in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 15 489 We must commence by distinguishing between the local metamorphism which sometimes appears in the vicinity of traps and granites and that normal metamorphism which extends over wide areas and is apparently unconnected with the presence of intrusive rocks.]
1861 28th Ann. Rep. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Soc. 113 The general conclusions are essentially the same as those of M. Delesse—from whose nomenclature, however, he [sc. Daubrée] differs slightly, giving the name of..Regional Metamorphism to normal or general metamorphism.
1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. x. 133 Much more important are the great masses of metamorphic rock which have resulted from what is often called regional metamorphism, i.e. deep burial of rock masses..due to earth-movement.
1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 716 All rocks were metamorphosed at low grade during burial and regional metamorphism.
Derivatives
ˈregionally adv.
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the world > space > place > [adverb] > in regard to a particular place
in loco1624
topically1648
locally1773
regionally1854
the world > life > the body > part of body > [adverb] > region
regionally1854
1854 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 81 575 The remaining anatomy is arranged regionally.
1922 N. Carpenter Guild Socialism vi. 183 The commune would be organized locally, regionally, and nationally, the same general type of organization applying to each.
1962 Rep. Comm. Broadcasting 1960 151 in Parl. Papers 1961–2 (Cmnd. 1753) We have examined the BBC on its allocation of money between its sound and television services, both nationally and regionally.
2007 Guardian 18 July (Society section) 8/4 The Sunday before Palm Sunday—known regionally as Carlin Sunday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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