/ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
OriginFrom 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.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
“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 pain”
“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 we”
- Selection, array.
“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 cra”
“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 a”
- 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.
“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.”
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
“This missile's range is 500 kilometres.”
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
“This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.”
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
“There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions”
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
“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 ”
“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 ”
“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 !”
- The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- 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.
- The defensive area that a player can cover.
“Jones has good range for a big man.”
- The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
“std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.”
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
“The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.”
- obsoleteThe step of a ladder; a rung.
“the first range of that ladder”
- UK, dialectal, obsoleteA bolting sieve to sift meal.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
“, "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
He may take a range all the world over.”
- US, historicalIn 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.
“By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.”
- intransitiveTo travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- transitiveTo rove over or through.
“to range the fields”
“Novv to the copſe thy leſſer ſpaniel take, / Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake; […]”
- intransitive, obsoleteTo exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
“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.”
- transitiveTo bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
“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.”
- intransitiveOf 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.”
“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”
“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 ”
- transitiveTo classify.
“to range plants and animals in genera and species”
“The coins are ranged into nine classes.”
“All requirements could be ranged into the classes.”
- intransitiveTo form a line or a row.
“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.”
- intransitiveTo be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
“And range with humble livers in content.”
- transitiveTo set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
“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 goo”
- transitiveTo 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.
“It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.”
- To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
“The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.”
- To determine the range to a target.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
“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 antici”
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Conecuh County, Alabama.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Madison County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in the towns of Apple River and Beaver, Polk County, Wisconsin.
Formsranges(plural) · ranges(present, singular, third-person) · ranging(participle, present) · ranged(participle, past) · ranged(past)