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Range   /reɪndʒ/   Listen
Range

noun
1.
An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:.  Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, reach, scope.  "A piano has a greater range than the human voice" , "The ambit of municipal legislation" , "Within the compass of this article" , "Within the scope of an investigation" , "Outside the reach of the law" , "In the political orbit of a world power"
2.
The limits within which something can be effective.  Synonym: reach.  "He was beyond the reach of their fire"
3.
A large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze.  "He dreamed of a home on the range"
4.
A series of hills or mountains.  Synonyms: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range of mountains.  "The plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
5.
A place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds.  "Any good golf club will have a range where you can practice"
6.
A variety of different things or activities.  "He was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection"
7.
(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined.  Synonyms: image, range of a function.
8.
The limit of capability.  Synonyms: compass, grasp, reach.
9.
A kitchen appliance used for cooking food.  Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, stove.
verb
(past & past part. ranged; pres. part. ranging)
1.
Change or be different within limits.  Synonym: run.  "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent" , "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals" , "My students range from very bright to dull"
2.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander.  "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"
3.
Have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun.
4.
Range or extend over; occupy a certain area.  Synonym: straddle.
5.
Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.  Synonyms: array, lay out, set out.  "Lay out the arguments"
6.
Feed as in a meadow or pasture.  Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, pasture.
7.
Let eat.
8.
Assign a rank or rating to.  Synonyms: grade, order, place, rank, rate.  "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"



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"Range" Quotes from Famous Books



... she folded her father's letter and replaced it in its cover. She brushed the tears away and looked at the date. Four days ago the letter had been posted. Her home, an old homestead in a valley that nestled deep and sweet in the heart of the grand mountain range, guarding it on every side, rose before her. She saw her father, grizzled, stooping-shouldered, care-worn, old-fashioned in dress, precise in manner, a gentleman of the old school, a man who had never had much money, but who had sent his five sons and ...
— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various
... days he seemed better, and his old-time pleasure in seeing things revived. The great blazing fire in the range particularly appealed to him, and made him sit up in his old attitude when the opening of the door brought the wonder to view. After a week he lost interest even in that, and drooped more and more each day. Finally not the most exciting noises ...
— Johnny Bear - And Other Stories From Lives of the Hunted • E. T. Seton
... on terms of understanding, confidence, and freedom with nature; as having the world open up to one like a flower filled with colour and life. She thought of the robin, of the tree whose secrets he had learned, of a mental range including even that medley of human beings amongst whom she lived. And the fact that something of his meaning had eluded her grasp made her rebel all the more bitterly against the lack ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... like to undertake the rocky and mountainous journey, even with Bilbil to carry him, but he would not desert Inga, even though his own kingdom lay just beyond a range of mountains which could be seen towering southwest of them. So the King bravely mounted the goat, who always grumbled but always obeyed his master, and the three set off at once for the caverns ...
— Rinkitink in Oz • L. Frank Baum
... season; and he stuck to it that a lot of that slew was as good pasture especially in a dry time as any one could ask for. This would be fine for a man as fond of cows as I was, though, of course, cows could range at will all over the country. It was fine hay land, he said, too, except in the wettest places; but it was true also, that any one ...
— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick


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