range
IPA: rˈeɪndʒ
noun
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- Selection, array.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- (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.
- (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
verb
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- (transitive) To rove over or through.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- (transitive) To classify.
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) 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.
- (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
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Examples of "range" in Sentences
- Fines for not getting the tag range from $30 to $200.
- The human female has been restricted in range from the earliest beginning.
- I've gone the Montemorelos/Linares backroads route before but find that the trip through the mountain range is quite slow.
- The company attempted to trademark the term "range anxiety" to describe worry drivers feel when their battery runs low, a dig on Nissan's Leaf.
- GameStats, which monitors the popularity of videogames based on a wide spectrum of metrics, the press and gamer scores for the title range from 8.4 to 8.6 (out of 10), which suggests strong word of mouth stayed sales through the holiday season.
- CHRISTIAN DUNN: In a nutshell, the Print on Demand range is Black Library's opportunity to not only bring back many of the out-of-print novels from our ten year back catalogue but also introduce new titles that we don't think fit our main range but know that readers would like to see.
- Who indeed can watch the ceaseless observation, and inquiry, and inference going on in a child's mind, or listen to its acute remarks on matters within the range of its faculties, without perceiving that these powers it manifests, if brought to bear systematically upon studies _within the same range_, would readily master them without help?
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