(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(2) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(3) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(4) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(5) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(8) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(9) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
(11) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(12) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
(13) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
(14) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(15) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
(16) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
(17) The technique resolved chromosomes in the size range of 100 kb-1 Mb.
(18) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
(19) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(20) The average follow-up was 3.5 years (range 2-5.5 years).
Target
Definition:
(n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
(n.) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
(n.) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
(n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
(n.) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(3) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(4) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(5) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(6) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(7) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
(8) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(9) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(10) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(11) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(12) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(14) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(15) Three effector: target ratios (6.2:1, 25:1, and 50:1) were studied in quadruplicate using 3, 4 and 5-h incubations.
(16) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(17) However, since these levels were unaltered by reducing the antiandrogen dosage, the main action of the therapy is probably that of the antiandrogen within the target cells.
(18) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(19) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(20) This article describes a method of selecting a potentially successful strategy using a combination of two factors: change target and level of change willingness and ability.