range
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: ranges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ranges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ranging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ranged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ranged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Selection, array.
pos: noun
examples: We sell a wide range of cars.
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.
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.
gloss: An area for practicing shooting at targets.
pos: noun
gloss: An area for military training or equipment testing.
pos: noun
gloss: The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
pos: noun
examples: We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
gloss: The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
pos: noun
examples: This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
gloss: The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
pos: noun
examples: This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.
gloss: An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
pos: noun
examples: There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions
gloss: The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
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 !
gloss: The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The defensive area that a player can cover.
pos: noun
examples: Jones has good range for a big man.
gloss: The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
pos: noun
gloss: The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
pos: noun
gloss: A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
pos: noun
examples: std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.
gloss: An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
pos: noun
examples: The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.
gloss: The step of a ladder; a rung.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the first range of that ladder
gloss: A bolting sieve to sift meal.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
gloss: A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
pos: noun
examples: , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
He may take a range all the world over.
gloss: In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
gloss: The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
pos: noun
examples: By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.
gloss: To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To rove over or through.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to range the fields
Novv to the copſe thy leſſer ſpaniel take, / Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake; […]
gloss: To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
gloss: Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
The police seized 12,000 files containing information on a wide range of organisations and individuals. The ADL claimed to be only monitoring ‘hate groups’, and denied passing information to Israel or South Africa. But the files ranged over Arab-American community organisations, trade unions, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, Anti-Apartheid, Women in Black and the International Jewish Peace Union. Only a relative handful of files dealt with the far right.
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. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
The 2025 timetable would feature two trains per hour, alternately routed via Kirkcaldy (with 11 intermediate stops) and Dunfermline (14 stops), with journey times ranging between 65 and 81 minutes.
gloss: To classify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to range plants and animals in genera and species
The coins are ranged into nine classes.
All requirements could be ranged into the classes.
gloss: To form a line or a row.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The front of a house ranges with the street.
The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
gloss: To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And range with humble livers in content.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
Were this dependence of the body and mind more studied, and its effects collected and ranged into proper order; no doubt, we would be able to form a better judgment of it, and see further into the good purposes to which it serves;
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
gloss: To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
pos: verb
examples: The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
gloss: To determine the range to a target.
pos: verb
gloss: To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
pos: verb
examples: to range the coast
gloss: Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Derived words: Alaska Range
Avenue Range
azran
basin and range topography
Basket Range
Biban Range
bitrange
Bitterroot Range
Black Range
Border Ranges
Brooks Range
Brown Range
Bugle Ranges
Cape Range National Park
Cascade Range
Central Mountain Range
Clear Range
close-range
close range
close the range
crossrange
Darling Range
disrange
downrange
driving range
dynamic range
ear range
Flinders Ranges
Forest Range
Fraser Range
free range
free-range
Front Range
Gallatin Range
Gammon Ranges
Gawler Ranges
Gibraltar Range
Great Dividing Range
Green Hills Range
Green Range
gun range
Hamersley Range
hearing range
Hervey Range
Highland Range
High Range
Hogarth Range
home range
induction range
interquartile range
interrange
Iron Range
Kennedy Range
King Leopold Ranges
Koonyum Range
Lamb Range
long-range
longrange
Lost River Range
Macalister Range
Macedon Ranges
Middleback Range
middle-range
mid-range
mountain range
Mueller Ranges
multirange
omnirange
open the range
out of range
outrange
overrange
Owen Stanley Range
Parker Range
Piney Range
Pir Panjal Range
price range
product range
Proof Range
pseudorange
rangeability
rangeable
range anxiety
rangebased
rangeblock
rangebound
range extender
range finder
rangefinder
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
Ranges Bridge
range-sieve
rangette
Rangeville
Rangeway
rangewide
Rangewood
rangework
rangle
rangy
Red Range
Rifle Range
rifle range
Sarina Range
Satpura Range
Sawatch Range
sentencing range
shortrange
short-range
Snake Range
Springrange
Stewart Range
St George Ranges
Stirling Range National Park
Stirling Range poison
striking range
subrange
Sudirman Range
Teton Range
The Range
tidal range
tide range
top-of-the-range
Tukey's range test
very-long-range
Wattle Range
Wattle Range East
Weld Range
West Range
Whalley Range
Wind River Range
Yarra Ranges
broad-ranging
wide-ranging
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