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
- He confined the ranges.
- The judge delimited the range.
- The range is purposefully broad.
- The income is in the middle range.
- The range of the species is expanding.
- This falls in the discretionary range.
- The range is an extension of the Mosquito Range.
- Some sang in the soprano range, some in the contralto range.
- The longitude is in the range and the latitude is in the range.
- The range is the most northern range in the world and of the Arctic Cordillera.