range

Meaning

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 burners (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. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
20. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
21. (US, historical) 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. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
5. (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
6. (transitive) To classify.
7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
9. (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.
10. (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.
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.

Opposite of

domain

Synonyms

scope

row

reach

extent

line

compass

🧭

distance

array

series

sphere

rank

stove

assortment

queue

wander

extend

limit

ramble

selection

run

order

mountain range

domain

roam

rove

scale

interval

tramp

stray

space

file

field

choice

length

carry

area

cooking stove

stretch

train

🚋

span

pasture

drift

dimension

chain

ridge

cast

bulk

browse

kitchen stove

breadth

Translations

portée

alcance

Bereich

gamma

gamme

Reichweite

gama

portata

alcance

intervalo

bereik

Umfang

serie

amplitude

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rengen

In summary

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”). Doublet of ring.

Sentences

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

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

"Tagiades japetus" have a wide range of occurrence .