range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪndʒ
Forms: form: ranges
Etymology: 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.
Senses: glosses: A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 281:
text: There was juſt ſuch another Innocent as this, in my Fathers Family : He did the Courſe Work in the Kitchin, and was bid at his firſt Coming to take off the Range, and let down the Cynders before he went to Bed.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[A Supplement of Fables […].] Fab[le] CCCCXXXVIII. A Fool and a Hot Iron.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 415:
glosses: A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
examples: text: We sell a wide range of cars.
text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
glosses: Selection, array.
glosses: An area for practicing shooting at targets.
synonyms: base
training area
training ground
glosses: An area for military training or equipment testing.
examples: text: We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
text: One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
synonyms: distance
radius
glosses: The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
examples: text: This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
glosses: The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
examples: text: This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.
glosses: The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
examples: text: There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions
ref: 1970, James Taylor, “Sweet Baby James”, in Sweet Baby James, →OCLC:
glosses: An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1661, John Fell, The Life of The most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dʳ H. Hammond, 2nd edition, London: J. Flesher, published 1662, page 99:
text: For we may further obſerve that men of the greateſt abilities are moſt fired with ambition : and that, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the leaſt actuated by it ; whether it be that a man’s ſenſe of his own incapacities makes him deſpair of coming at fame, or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereſt or convenience, or that Providence, in the very frame of his ſoul, would not ſubject him to ſuch a paſſion as would be uſeleſs to the world, and a torment to himſelf.
ref: 1711 December 22, Joseph Addison, “The Spectator”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, volume III, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1721, page 255:
text: Far as Creation’s ample range extends, / The ſcale of Senſual, Mental pow’rs aſcends : / Mark how it mounts, to Man’s imperial race, / From the green myriads in the peopled graſs !
ref: 1733–34, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, London: J. and P. Knapton, published 1748, epistle I, lines 207–210, page 29:
glosses: The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: domain
glosses: The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Jones has good range for a big man.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The defensive area that a player can cover.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: compass
glosses: The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
examples: text: std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
examples: text: The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
examples: text: the first range of that ladder
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: The step of a ladder; a rung.
glosses: A bolting sieve to sift meal.
examples: , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
He may take a range all the world over.
glosses: A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
glosses: In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
examples: text: By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.
glosses: The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
word: artillery range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
word: grenade range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
word: gunnery range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
word: live-fire range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
word: missile range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
word: rocket range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
word: tank range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)
word: archery range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)
word: firing range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)
word: indoor range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)
word: shooting range
sense: Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)
word: target range
sense: Hyponyms of range (distance to something)
word: slant range
sense: Hyponyms of range (maximum distance of effect)
word: effective range
sense: Hyponyms of range (maximum distance of effect)
word: maximum range
Coordinate terms: sense: firing range
word: shooting gallery
sense: radius
word: azimuth
sense: radius
word: elevation
sense: radius
word: inclination
sense: cooking stove
word: oven
Derived terms: Alaska Range
azran
basin and range topography
Biban Range
bitrange
Bitterroot Range
Brooks Range
Cascade Range
Central Mountain Range
close range
close-range
close the range
crossrange
disrange
downrange
driving range
dynamic range
ear range
Flinders Ranges
free range
free-range
Front Range
Gallatin Range
Great Dividing Range
gun range
hearing range
Highland Range
home range
interquartile range
interrange
Iron Range
long-range
longrange
Lost River Range
Macedon Ranges
mid-range
mountain range
multirange
omnirange
open the range
out of range
outrange
overrange
Owen Stanley Range
Pir Panjal Range
price range
product range
pseudorange
rangeability
rangeable
range anxiety
rangebased
rangeblock
rangebound
range extender
rangefinder
range finder
rangefinding
rangefree
range hood
rangekeeper
rangekeeping
rangeland
rangeless
range light
rangeman
rangemaster
Range of Light
range of motion
range of travel
range pole
range queen
range rod
range safety officer
RSO
range safety
range-safety
range safety system
RSS
range-sieve
rangette
rangewide
rangework
rangle
rangy
rifle range
Satpura Range
Sawatch Range
sentencing range
short-range
shortrange
Snake Range
Stirling Range poison
striking range
subrange
Teton Range
tidal range
tide range
top-of-the-range
Tukey's range test
very-long-range
Wattle Range
Whalley Range
Wind River Range
Yarra Ranges