What's the difference between range and widen?

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.

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).

Widen


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
  • (v. i.) To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bohler's angle may be reconstituted with apparent reduction of the posterior facet when projected laterally; however, Broden's and axial views show persistent widening and split of the posterior facet.
  • (2) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
  • (3) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (4) A patient with hypertensive heart disease, in whom atrial premature beats with a decrease in the amplitude and widening of his bundle potential, prolongation of the H-V interval, and right bundle branch block pattern suggested intrahisian longitudinal dissociation, is described.
  • (5) The question of how the contraction of adjacent endothelial cells might widen the intercellular clefts and thus regulate permeability is discussed.
  • (6) These alterations include fenestration, widened intercellular junctions, increase in pinocytotic vesicles, and infolding of the luminal surface.
  • (7) Protriptyline also widened the ventricular echo zone and allowed easy induction of long runs of ventricular tachycardia.
  • (8) Diffuse widening of the subarchnoidal space, diffuse cerebral changes, interhemispheric assymetry of the venous and arterial phases of cerebral circulation: the most peculiar symptoms of the CNS affection in SLE according to CT and EEG and radionuclide studies of cerebral hemodynamics.
  • (9) But the bill anticipates the outcome by seeking to widen government powers to enable more people to be given support in the form of direct payments, for services up to and including residential care.
  • (10) Osteopetrosis is diffuse and is associated with important metaphyseal widening as well as epiphyseal irregularities and often carpal and tarsal supernumerary bones.
  • (11) Spinning top urethra (STU) is a term used to describe a widened posterior urethra seen mainly in girls.
  • (12) This is caused by a paravertebral haematoma, and can be difficult to differentiate from widening due to an aortic rupture.
  • (13) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
  • (14) The high mortality of some groups within the NHS, and the fact that differentials between social classes have widened more than in the general population, suggest that the NHS needs to pay more attention to the health of its own staff.
  • (15) A case of bilateral aneurysmatic widening of the Dacron graft after aorto-femoral bypass is described.
  • (16) The PPD was positive and X-ray showed widening of the mediastinum.
  • (17) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
  • (18) The advantages of this technique are: the abdominal aorta of rats proximally to renal arteries is characterized by a well developed adventitia and its caliber is double of that of infrarenal aorta; b) the left renal vein is more easily access of caval vein with similar caliber; c) the use of left renal vein and the widening of pulmonary artery permits a wide anastomosis; d) the so obtained heart position is better than the transversal one; e) the calibers of all anastomosis is so wide to permit the realization of this technique without extreme optical magnification.
  • (19) Generally, during heavy exercise all species hyperventilate creating hypocapnia, increased PAO2, widened A-a O2 gradient, and PaO2 homeostasis.
  • (20) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.