range
/ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms ranges ranging ranged
- noun A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- noun A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
- noun Selection, array. “We sell a wide range of cars.”
- noun An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- noun An area for military training or equipment testing.
- noun The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event. “We could see the ship at a range of five miles.”
- noun The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.). “This missile's range is 500 kilometres.”
- noun The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling. “This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.”
- verb (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- verb (transitive) To rove over or through. “to range the fields”
- verb (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
- verb (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- verb (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range. “The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.”
- verb (transitive) To classify. “to range plants and animals in genera and species”
- verb (intransitive) To form a line or a row. “The front of a house ranges with the street.”
- verb (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Conecuh County, Alabama.
- proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Madison County, Ohio.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in the towns of Apple River and Beaver, Polk County, Wisconsin.
Synonyms
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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”). Doublet of ring.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
- verb 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. It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society. Burke.
- verb To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
- verb 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.
Etymology [OE. rengen, OF. rengier, F. ranger, OF. renc row, rank, F. rang; of German origin. See Rane, n.]
Etymology [From Range, v.: cf. F. rangée.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “range”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details