English Explanatory Dictionary

range

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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).
  3. Selection, array.
  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.
  7. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
  8. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
  9. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  10. The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  11. The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  12. 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.
verb
  1. To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  2. To rove over or through.
  3. To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
  4. To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
  5. Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  6. To classify.
  7. To form a line or a row.
  8. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  12. To determine the range to a target.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. An unincorporated community in Conecuh County, Alabama.
  4. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Madison County, Ohio.
  5. An unincorporated community in the towns of Apple River and Beaver, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹeɪ̯nd͡ʒ/ /ˈɹɛ̝ɪ̯nd͡ʒ/ en-us-range.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-range.wav /ˈɹeːnd͡ʒ/ /ˈɹæ̝ɪ̯nd͡ʒ/

Word forms

range ranges ranging ranged

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.

Synonyms

base training area training ground distance radius compass run

Antonyms

domain

Derived words

Alaska Range Avenue Range azran basin and range topography Basket Range Biban Range bitrange Bitterroot Range Black Range Border Ranges Brooks Range Brown Range Bugle Ranges Cape Range National Park Cascade Range Central Mountain Range Clear Range close-range close range close the range crossrange Darling Range disrange downrange driving range dynamic range ear range Flinders Ranges Forest Range Fraser Range free range free-range Front Range Gallatin Range Gammon Ranges Gawler Ranges Gibraltar Range Great Dividing Range Green Hills Range Green Range gun range Hamersley Range hearing range Hervey Range Highland Range High Range Hogarth Range home range interquartile range interrange Iron Range Kennedy Range King Leopold Ranges Koonyum Range Lamb Range long-range longrange Lost River Range Macalister Range Macedon Ranges
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