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The word range refers to a variety of things or to an area in which something operates. The store offers the living room set in a range of colors. What's the range of that remote controlled airplane?

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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; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range where you can practice"

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a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"

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an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in t

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the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"

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a variety of different things or activities; "he answered a range of questions"; "he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection"

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the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire"

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a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze; "they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring"; "he dreamed of a home on the range"

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a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

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the limits of the values a function can take; "the range of this function is the interval from 0 to 1"

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assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

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let eat; "range the animals in the prairie"

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lay out in a line

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feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"

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move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They ro

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range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state"

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change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull"

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have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles"


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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; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.

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To separate into parts; to sift.

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To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

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To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.

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To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.

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To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.

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To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.

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To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

v. i.
To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

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To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.

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To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

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A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

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An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

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The step of a ladder; a rung.

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A kitchen grate.

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An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.

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A bolting sieve to sift meal.

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A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

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That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.

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Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.

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The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.

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The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.

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Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.

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A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.

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In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.

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See Range of cable, below.


Range

Range , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ranged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ranging .] [OE. rengen, OF. rengier, F. ranger, OF. renc row, rank, F. rang; of German origin. See Rane, n.] 1. 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; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
2. To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
3. To separate into parts; to sift. [Obs.] Holland. 4. To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species. 5. To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
6. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast. &hand; Compare the last two senses (5 and 6) with the French ranger une c'93te. 7. (Biol.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.

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Range, v. i. 1. To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
Like a ranging spaniel that barks at every bird he sees.
2. To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles. 3. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
And range with humble livers in content.
4. To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
Which way the forests range.
5. (Biol.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay. Syn. -- To rove; roam; ramble; wander; stroll.

Range

Range, n. [From Range, v.: cf. F. rang'82e.] 1. A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains. 2. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
3. The step of a ladder; a rung. Clarendon. 4. A kitchen grate. [Obs.]
He was bid at his first coming to take off the range, and let down the cinders.
5. Am extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove. 6. A bolting sieve to sift meal. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 7. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
He may take a range all the world over.
8. That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture. 9. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
Far as creation's ample range extends.
The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
A man has not enough range of thought.
10. (Biol.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives. 11. (Gun.) (a) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried. (b) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile. (c) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced. 12. In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart. &hand; The meridians included in each great survey are numbered in order east and west from the "principal meridian" of that survey, and the townships in the range are numbered north and south from the "base line," which runs east and west; as, township No. 6, N., range 7, W., from the fifth principal meridian. 13. (Naut.) See Range of cable, below. Range of accommodation (Optics), the distance between the near point and the far point of distinct vision, -- usually measured and designated by the strength of the lens which if added to the refracting media of the eye would cause the rays from the near point to appear as if they came from the far point. -- Range finder (Gunnery), an instrument, or apparatus, variously constructed, for ascertaining the distance of an inaccessible object, -- used to determine what elevation must be given to a gun in order to hit the object; a position finder. -- Range of cable (Naut.), a certain length of slack cable ranged along the deck preparatory to letting go the anchor. -- Range work (Masonry), masonry of squared stones laid in courses each of which is of even height throughout the length of the wall; -- distinguished from broken range work, which consists of squared stones laid in courses not continuously of even height. -- To get the range of (an object) (Gun.), to find the angle at which the piece must be raised to reach (the object) without carrying beyond.

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; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.

A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

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Usage Examples

As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country, in addition to the Midwest. That is why USDA has established five regional research centers working on science necessary to ensure profitable biofuels can be produced from a diverse range of feedstocks.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

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