Range definition
An extensive area of open land on which livestock wander and graze.
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To extend in a particular direction.
A river that ranges to the east.
verb
To look over something or around an area or place.
The teacher's eyes ranged over the class.
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One of a series of double-faced bookcases in a library stack room.
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To vary within specified limits.
Sizes that range from small to extra large.
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A series of connected mountains or hills considered as a single system.
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Range is defined as to set or place in order or position.
An example of range is to line students up from tallest to shortest.
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The definition of a range is a series of things or the limit to which something can reach or a place where animals live and eat.
An example of range is a group of mountains.
An example of range is the maximum distance a gun can shoot a bullet.
An example of range is a large area of land with buffalo.
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A group or series of things extending in a line or row, especially a row or chain of mountains.
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A north-south strip of townships, each six miles square, numbered east and west from a specified meridian in a US public land survey.
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A stove with spaces for cooking a number of things at the same time.
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A number or grouping of things in the same category or within specified limits.
Offers a range of financial services; jobs at different pay ranges.
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An amount or extent of variation.
A wide price range; the range of genetic diversity.
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(music) The gamut of tones that a voice or instrument is capable of producing.
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A class, rank, or order.
The lower ranges of society.
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Extent of perception, knowledge, experience, or ability.
Calculus is simply out of my range.
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The area or sphere in which an activity takes place.
Beyond the range of the court's jurisdiction.
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The maximum extent or distance limiting operation, action, or effectiveness, as of a sound, radio signal, instrument, firearm, or aircraft.
The limited range of the telescope; out of range of their guns; within hearing range.
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The maximum distance that can be covered by a vehicle with a specified payload before its fuel supply is exhausted.
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The distance between a projectile weapon and its target.
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A place equipped for practice in shooting at targets.
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A testing area at which rockets and missiles are launched and tracked.
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A place or business where golf shots can be practiced.
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(mathematics) The set of all values a given function may take on.
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(statistics) The difference or interval between the smallest and largest values in a frequency distribution or a set of data.
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To cover or have application to a number of things.
Their conversation ranged over the major issues of the day. Her responsibilities range across all aspects of the negotiations.
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To live or grow within a particular region.
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To move through, along, or around in an area or region.
Raiders ranged up and down the coast.
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To wander freely; roam.
Allowed the animals to range freely.
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To arrange or dispose in a particular order, especially in rows or lines.
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To assign to a particular category; classify.
Her works are often ranged under the headings Mystery and Science Fiction.
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To move through or along or around in (an area or region).
The scouts ranged the mountain forests. The patrol boat ranged the coast.
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To look over or throughout (something).
His eyes ranged the room, looking for the letter.
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To turn (livestock) onto an extensive area of open land for grazing.
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(nautical) To uncoil (an anchor cable) on deck so the anchor may descend easily.
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To align (a gun, for example) with a target.
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To determine the distance of (a target).
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To be capable of reaching (a maximum distance).
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To arrange in a certain order; esp., to set in a row or rows.
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To put into the proper class or classes; systematize.
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To place with others in a cause, party, etc.
To range oneself with the rebels.
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To put (a gun, telescope, etc.) in a line with the target or object, at a proper angle of elevation; train.
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(now rare) To make level or even.
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To travel over or through; roam about.
To range the woods.
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To travel or move along.
To range the coastline.
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To put out (cattle, etc.) to graze on a range.
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To arrange (the anchor cable) in even rows on deck.
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To extend, reach, or lie in a given direction or in a row.
Hills ranging toward the south.
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To wander about; roam.
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To move about an area, as in hunting.
Dogs ranging through the woods.
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To have a specified range.
A gun that ranges five miles.
verb
To vary between stated limits.
Children ranging in age from 5 to 12
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(biol.) To be native to a specified region.
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A row, line, or series; rank.
noun
A class, kind, or order.
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The maximum distance a plane, etc. can travel without fueling.
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The full extent over which something moves or is heard, seen, understood, effective, etc.; scope.
The range of one's studies.
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Full extent of pitch, from highest to lowest tones, of a voice, instrument, composition, etc.
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A wandering or roaming.
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A large, open area of land over which livestock can wander and graze.
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The limits of possible variations of amount, degree, etc.
A wide range of prices.
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A unit for cooking, typically including an oven and surface heating units and usually operated by gas or electricity.
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In U.S. public surveying, a strip of land between two meridian lines six miles apart, constituting a row of townships.
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(biol.) The region to which a plant or animal is native.
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(math.) The set of all distinct values that may be taken on by a given function.
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(statistics) The difference between the largest and smallest values in a sample.
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The maximum effective horizontal distance that a weapon can fire its projectile.
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The horizontal distance from a weapon to its target.
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The path of flight for a missile or rocket.
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The distance to or from any target, goal, or object of interest.
To view a wild animal at close range.
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A place for shooting practice.
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A place for testing rockets in flight.
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Of a range, or open grazing place.
adjective
The geographic region in which a plant, animal, or other organism normally lives or grows.
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(mathematics) The set of all values a given function may take on.
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(statistics) The difference or interval between the smallest and largest values in a frequency distribution or a set of data.
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The set of all values that a given function may have.
The difference between the smallest and largest values in a set of data. If the lowest test score of a group of students is 54 and the highest is 94, the range is 40.
(1) In data entry validation, a group of values from a minimum to a maximum.
A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
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Selection, array.
We sell a wide range of cars.
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An area for practicing shooting at targets.
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An area for military training or equipment testing.
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Maximum range of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
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An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
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Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
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(statistics) 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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(sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
Jones has good range for a big man.
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(programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending 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.
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A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
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(US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
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To rove over or through.
To range the fields.
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To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
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(intransitive) (mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
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(intransitive) To form a line or a row.
The front of a house ranges with the street.
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(intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
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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.
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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.
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(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
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To separate into parts; to sift.
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To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
To range the coast.
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The geographic region in which a plant or animal normally lives or grows.
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The opportunity or freedom to wander or explore.
We had free range of the campus.
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Origin of range
- Middle English row, rank from Old French from rangier to put in a row from rang, reng line of Germanic origin sker-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English rengen, from Old French renger (“range, rank, order, array”), from rang (“a rank, row”), from Old High German hring, hrinc, Middle High German rinc (“a ring”).
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