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Range

//ɹeɪnd͡ʒ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
2
A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Conecuh County, Alabama.
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A place in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Madison County, Ohio.
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A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the towns of Apple River and Beaver, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Noun

1
A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
2
a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds wordnet
3
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
"Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde."
4
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food wordnet
5
Selection, array.
"We sell a wide range of cars."

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an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: wordnet
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An area for practicing shooting at targets.
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the limit of capability wordnet
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An area for military training or equipment testing.
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(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined wordnet
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The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
"We could see the ship at a range of five miles."
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a variety of different things or activities wordnet
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The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
"This missile's range is 500 kilometres."
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the limits within which something can be effective wordnet
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The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
"This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres."
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a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze wordnet
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An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
"There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions"
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a series of hills or mountains wordnet
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The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
"As to acquir’d habits and abilities in Learning, his Writings having given the World ſufficient account of them, there remains onely to obſerve, that the range and compaſs of his knowledge fill’d the whole Circle of the Arts, and reach’d thoſe ſeverals which ſingle do exact an entire man unto themſelves, and full age."
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The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
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The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
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The defensive area that a player can cover.
"Jones has good range for a big man."
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The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
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The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
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A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
"std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range."
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An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
"The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature."
27
The step of a ladder; a rung. obsolete
"the first range of that ladder"
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A bolting sieve to sift meal. UK, dialectal, obsolete
29
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
", "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take a range all the world over."
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In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart. US, historical
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The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
"By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor."

Verb

1
To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. intransitive
2
assign a rank or rating to wordnet
3
To rove over or through. transitive
"to range the fields"
4
let eat wordnet
5
To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. intransitive, obsolete
"The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents."

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lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line wordnet
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To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. transitive
"At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside."
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feed as in a meadow or pasture wordnet
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Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range. intransitive
"The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10."
10
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment wordnet
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To classify. transitive
"to range plants and animals in genera and species"
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range or extend over; occupy a certain area wordnet
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To form a line or a row. intransitive
"The front of a house ranges with the street."
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change or be different within limits wordnet
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To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. intransitive
"And range with humble livers in content."
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have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun wordnet
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To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order. transitive
"Maccabeus ranged his army by hands."
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To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc. transitive
"It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society."
19
To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
"The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay."
20
To determine the range to a target.
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To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
"to range the coast"
22
Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
"Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”). Doublet of ring.

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