Ranging

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who ranges. countable, uncountable

    "[…] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […]"

  2. 2
    A back-and-forth movement. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of range form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter."

Adjective
  1. 1
    wandering freely wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
analysisarrangementdetectiondiscursivedivisiondrifting

Example

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"Many boys and girls ranging from 12 to 18 entered the contest."

Related phrases

free-ranginglong-rangingranging poleranging rodrump-rangingwide-ranging

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