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 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.

Concepts

range

scope

row

extent

reach

line

compass

distance

sphere

series

array

stove

rank

assortment

wander

extend

queue

limit

scale

ramble

roam

rove

domain

selection

order

run

mountain range

interval

space

tramp

stray

field

choice

file

dimension

length

drift

span

carry

ridge

pasture

cooking stove

chain

area

train

stretch

launch base

radio range

breadth

bulk

size

travel

swan

vagabond

expanse

column

boundary

grassland

meadow

pampas

prairie

pastureland

plain

line up

shot

sweep

variety

grade

rate

browse

crop

graze

cast

roll

kitchen range

kitchen stove

ambit

grasp

chain of mountains

range of mountains

band

arrange

spread

set

measure

trek

walk

gunshot

group

bound

precinct

pasturage

limits

purview

rangeland

turn

gamut

remoteness

diapason

distribution

marshal

place

lay out

set out

straddle

orbit

image

range of a function

mountain chain

cooker

lie

rg

rifle range

flight

sequence

category

class

march

extension

shooting range

pack

hike

vary

tessitura

cut

figure

measurement

stature

take a stand

cruise

mosey

traipse

traverse

target

circle

cover

trajectory

be busy running

walk all around

portion

framework

border

plains

jurisdiction

margin

shoothing range

row of mountains

form up

list

collection

division

section

chain of hills

mountain-ridge

alignment

distribution range

launching range

rangelands

streak

draw up

mountain

direction

shooting-range

shooting-ground

register

classify

savanna

savannah

veld

veldt

alteration

assembly

behaviour

incidence

modify

zone

haunt

circuit

girth

colonnade

company

course

army

amount

number

quantity

time

ladder stepladder scale

reach degree

distention

expansion

lengthiness

tract

ray

spoke

fling

round

shy

throw

fluctuation

pulsation

variance

outspread

deploy

parade

string out

gad

hang about

saunter

filch

inning

string

succession

suit

fabric

neatness

orderliness

rating

trim

diametrical pitch

full pitch

overall spread

level

mobility scale

range of fluctuation

variation range

range of fire

elongating

elongation

roll-out

rolling out

stretching

verge

dispose

extreme difference

ranging

family

genus

kind

realm

sort

type

endurance

cruising range

flying range

voyage

steppe

distance of run

length of travel

stroke

geodesic distance

measurement range

measuring range

quantum

armament training camp

gunnery range

stock

parameter

bandwidth

spectrum

firing range

shooting gallery

target range

instal

assign

constitute

deposit

issue

lay

make

perch

plant

pose

put

repose

reset

rest

set down

stand

clearance

frigidness

standoffishness

ulteriority

bear

bear off

carry off

carry to term

gestate

hold

porter

tote

cross

do

draw

drive

go

go around

go forward

propagate

ride

wheel

grazing land

sheepwalk

forage

ambulate

fall

locomote

move

stir

come

poke out

reach out

spread-eagle

backpack

peregrinate

alternate

change

variegate

armory

armoury

compendium

salmagundi

degree

set up

distribute

from-to

frame

elbow-room

latitude

overhang

projection

propagation

galley

hob

excursion

trip

fire ground

dominion

territory

grazing ground

region

province

terms

bulge

bounds

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

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

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