Range

Definition:

  • (n.) 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; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
  • (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
  • (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
  • (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
  • (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
  • (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
  • (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
  • (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
  • (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
  • (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  • (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
  • (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
  • (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
  • (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  • (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
  • (v.) A kitchen grate.
  • (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
  • (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  • (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  • (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
  • (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
  • (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
  • (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
  • (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
  • (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
  • (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
  • (v.) See Range of cable, below.

Compare range with other words:

range vs. size

range vs. wide

grange vs. range

circle vs. range

ranee vs. range

range vs. selection

rage vs. range

rance vs. range

mange vs. range

rang vs. range

orange vs. range

range vs. region

range vs. realm

range vs. row

kind vs. range

ordinate vs. range

cluster vs. range

range vs. rangle

eyeshot vs. range

ambitus vs. range

counterfort vs. range

cooktop vs. range

range vs. stovetop

height vs. range

plain vs. range

anger vs. range

extend vs. range

amount vs. range

ambit vs. range

mobile vs. range

length vs. range

indulgence vs. range

interval vs. range

expand vs. range

range vs. sphere

degree vs. range

collection vs. range

range vs. span

range vs. value

range vs. scope

mean vs. range

dogie vs. range

range vs. ranged

range vs. straddle

range vs. ranger

diapason vs. range

range vs. stem

diversity vs. range

example vs. range

range vs. variety

pitched vs. range

discontinuity vs. range

micrometer vs. range

extended vs. range

overflow vs. range

purview vs. range

conterminous vs. range

piedmont vs. range

lincoln vs. range

intermediate vs. range

denizen vs. range

degenerate vs. range

cruiser vs. range

range vs. widen

convergence vs. range

overlap vs. range

eyesight vs. range

condor vs. range

lyric vs. range

maverick vs. range

range vs. vagrant

falsetto vs. range

range vs. sierra

onto vs. range

horizon vs. range

range vs. uncertainty

extent vs. range

range vs. stroll

hob vs. range

melee vs. range

classify vs. range

range vs. real

range vs. relationship

position vs. range

range vs. wander

power vs. range

range vs. roam

oven vs. range

compass vs. range

radius vs. range

base vs. range

range vs. township

meal vs. range

range vs. sift

range vs. sieve

bolt vs. range

range vs. species

range vs. zone

range vs. scale

area vs. range

range vs. sample

points vs. range

range vs. values

range vs. set

emanation vs. range

event vs. range

distance vs. range

range vs. sensor

range vs. target

cooking vs. range

fire vs. range

fireplace vs. range

gamut vs. range

palette vs. range

choice vs. range

range vs. tilde

breadth vs. range

pattern vs. range

curry vs. range

bracket vs. range

range vs. transcendence

operator vs. range

range vs. transcendent

plane vs. range

range vs. spectrum

extreme vs. range

range vs. rifle

image vs. range

range vs. view

range vs. singularity

domain vs. range

continuous vs. range

orbit vs. range

range vs. run

rake vs. range

range vs. standard

range vs. stove