range
nounCA, US, UK /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ · UK /ˈɹɛjnd͡ʒ/
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.
22 senses
- 1A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- 2A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now…
- 3Selection, array.
- 4An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- 5An area for military training or equipment testing.
- 6The distance from a person or sensor to an object…
- 7The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a…
- 8The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or…
- 9An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- 10The extent or space taken in by anything excursive…
- 11The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- 12The length of the smallest interval which contains all…
- 13The defensive area that a player can cover.
- 14The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- 15The geographical area or zone where a species is…
- 16A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- 17An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an…
- 18The step of a ladder; a rung.
- 19A bolting sieve to sift meal.
- 20A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion…
- 21In the public land system, a row or line of townships…
- 22The variety of roles that an actor can play in a…
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 burners (hotplates).
- Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 281:
- There was juſt ſuch another Innocent as this, in my Fathers Family : He did the Courſe Work in the Kitchin, and was bid at his firſt Coming to take off the Range, and let down the Cynders before he went to Bed.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[A Supplement of Fables […].] Fab[le] CCCCXXXVIII. A Fool and a Hot Iron.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 415:
3
Selection, array.
- We sell a wide range of cars.
- 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.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
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- 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.2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
4
An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5
An area for military training or equipment testing.
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.
7
The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
8
The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.
9
An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions1970, James Taylor, “Sweet Baby James”, in Sweet Baby James, →OCLC:
10
The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- As to acquir’d habits and abilities in Learning, his Writings having given the World ſufficient account of them, there remains onely to obſerve, that the range and compaſs of his knowledge fill’d the whole Circle of the Arts, and reach’d thoſe ſeverals which ſingle do exact an entire man unto themſelves, and full age.1661, John Fell, The Life of The most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dʳ H. Hammond, 2nd edition, London: J. Flesher, published 1662, page 99:
- For we may further obſerve that men of the greateſt abilities are moſt fired with ambition : and that, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the leaſt actuated by it ; whether it be that a man’s ſenſe of his own incapacities makes him deſpair of coming at fame, or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereſt or convenience, or that Providence, in the very frame of his ſoul, would not ſubject him to ſuch a paſſion as would be uſeleſs to the world, and a torment to himſelf.1711 December 22, Joseph Addison, “The Spectator”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, volume III, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1721, page 255:
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- Far as Creation’s ample range extends, / The ſcale of Senſual, Mental pow’rs aſcends : / Mark how it mounts, to Man’s imperial race, / From the green myriads in the peopled graſs !1733–34, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, London: J. and P. Knapton, published 1748, epistle I, lines 207–210, page 29:
11
Mathematics, Sciences The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
12
Mathematics, Sciences, 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.
13
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The defensive area that a player can cover.
- Jones has good range for a big man.
14
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
16
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.
17
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
18
Obsolete The step of a ladder; a rung.
- the first range of that ladder1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:
20
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take a range all the world over.
21
US, Historical In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
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.
- Derived terms
153 terms
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- artillery range, grenade range, gunnery range, live-fire range, missile range, rocket range, tank range, archery range, firing range, indoor range, shooting range, target range, slant range, effective range, maximum range
- Coordinate terms
- shooting gallery, azimuth, elevation, inclination, oven
- Holonyms
- codomain