range

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
3. Selection, array.
4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5. An area for military training or equipment testing.
6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
7. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
8. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
9. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
10. The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
11. The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
12. 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.
13. The defensive area that a player can cover.
14. The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
15. The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
16. A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
17. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
18. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
19. (obsolete) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
20. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
21. In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
22. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

Verb

1. To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
2. To rove over or through.
3. (obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
4. To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
5. Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
6. To classify.
7. To form a line or a row.
8. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
12. To determine the range to a target.
13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
14. Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (anglès)

From 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”).

Sents

Not all ship-to-shore radio communications were short range .

At some high hill passes the range provides cool sites appropriate for vineyards .