range

See also: Range, rangé, rangë, ränge, and Ränge

English

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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹeɪndʒ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

Noun

range (plural ranges)

  1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
    • L'Estrange
      He was bid at his first coming to take off the range, and let down the cinders.
  3. Selection, array.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:
      But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
    • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
      Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
    We sell a wide range of cars.
  4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  5. An area for military training or equipment testing.
    Synonyms: base, training area, training ground
  6. 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.
    One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
    Synonyms: distance, radius
  7. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
    This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
  8. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  9. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
    • Alexander Pope
      Far as creation's ample range extends.
    • Bishop Fell
      The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
    • Addison
      A man has not enough range of thought.
  10. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
    Antonym: domain
  11. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
  12. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
    Jones has good range for a big man.
  13. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
    Synonym: compass
  14. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  15. (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
    std::for_each  calls the given function on each value in the input range.
  16. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
    • Sir M. Hale
      The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
  17. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
  18. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  19. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
    • South
      He may take a range all the world over.
  20. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
  21. The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
  22. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
    By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.
    By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his acting range.

Hyponyms

Holonyms

  • (values a function can obtain): codomain

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Derived terms

  • very-long-range

Translations

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Verb

range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
  2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
    to range the fields
    • John Gay
      Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
  4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
      At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
    • 1910, Saki, ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia:
      In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
  5. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) 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.
    • 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
      In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
  6. (transitive) To classify.
    to range plants and animals in genera and species
  7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
    The front of a house ranges with the street.
  8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
    • Shakespeare
      And range with humble livers in content.
  9. (transitive) 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.
    • Bible, 2 Macc. xii. 20
      Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
  10. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
    • Burke
      It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
  11. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
    The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
  12. To separate into parts; to sift.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
  13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
    to range the coast
  14. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
    • 2009, Jason aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, page 250, →ISBN
      Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.
  • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:range.

Translations

Further reading

  • range in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • range in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • range at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.

Adjective

range (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. strict

French

Verb

range

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ranger
  2. third-person singular present indicative of ranger
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
  5. second-person singular imperative of ranger

Anagrams

Portuguese

Verb

range

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ranger
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ranger
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