Word: range Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɹɛjnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɾend͡ʒ/, /ˈɾeːnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɹeːnd͡ʒ/ 1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. 2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates). Example: 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. Example: 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. 3. Selection, array. Example: We sell a wide range of cars. Example: 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. 4. An area for practicing shooting at targets. 5. An area for military training or equipment testing. 6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event. Example: We could see the ship at a range of five miles. Example: One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash. 7. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.). Example: This missile's range is 500 kilometres. 8. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling. Example: This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres. 9. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land. Example: There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions 10. The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope. Example: 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. Example: 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. 11. The set of values (points) which a function can obtain. 12. 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. 13. The defensive area that a player can cover. Example: Jones has good range for a big man. 14. The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce. 15. The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found. 16. A sequential list of values specified by an iterator. Example: std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range. 17. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. Example: The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature. 18. The step of a ladder; a rung. Labels: obsolete Example: the first range of that ladder 19. A bolting sieve to sift meal. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete 20. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. Example: , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take a range all the world over. 21. In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart. Labels: US, historical 22. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way. Example: By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.