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range en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈɹɛjnd͡ʒ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈɾeːnd͡ʒ/ (Wales) without the pane–pain merger
  • /ˈɹæɪnd͡ʒ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈɾend͡ʒ/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɹeːnd͡ʒ/ Northern England, Ireland, monophthongization

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.

Meanings

  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.
    • 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:
    • We sell a wide range of cars.
    • 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.
    • One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
    • We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
  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 companions 1970, 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:
    • 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. 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.
  13. The defensive area that a player can cover.
    • Jones has good range for a big man.
  14. The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  15. The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  16. 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 ladder 1702–1704, 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:
  19. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  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.

Forms

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ranges Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

domain

Coordinates

azimuth (radius) · inclination (radius) · elevation (radius) · shooting gallery (firing range) · oven (cooking stove)

Deriveds

interrange · Fraser Range · range-safety · Stewart Range · range queen · rangekeeper · Gibraltar Range · rangeless · range safety officer · Kennedy Range · Clear Range · rangefree · Wattle Range · subrange · rifle range · Koonyum Range · rangemaster · rangeability · Border Ranges · Whalley Range · azran · tide range · pseudorange · Iron Range · bitrange · Macalister Range · West Range · RSO · rangle · multirange · longrange · range rod · out of range · Basket Range · induction range · Great Dividing Range · rangeblock · interquartile range · Green Range · rangeland · range safety · range safety system · Rangeway · Darling Range · open the range · Sarina Range · rangeable · Stirling Range National Park · product range · range extender · Owen Stanley Range · dynamic range · Black Range · Rifle Range · Hervey Range · rangeman · Teton Range · rangewide · Springrange · gun range · range finder · basin and range topography · Cascade Range · Ranges Bridge · Front Range · driving range · Mueller Ranges · Piney Range · RSS · Middleback Range · top-of-the-range · rangy · Snake Range · Brown Range · striking range · rangebound · Parker Range · Yarra Ranges · Stirling Range poison · rangefinding · close the range · range anxiety · Lamb Range · Biban Range · St George Ranges · Pir Panjal Range · Flinders Ranges · crossrange · Tukey's range test · Hogarth Range · rangework · rangette · Avenue Range · hearing range · free-range · omnirange · downrange · Cape Range National Park · Gawler Ranges · Wind River Range · close-range · Lost River Range · Sawatch Range · long-range · Central Mountain Range · mid-range · Green Hills Range · Forest Range · range pole · close range · short-range · rangefinder · Brooks Range · range of travel · Highland Range · price range · Alaska Range · Hamersley Range · overrange · Weld Range · range-sieve · Gallatin Range · ear range · rangekeeping · Gammon Ranges · Rangewood · Bitterroot Range · Proof Range · middle-range · Wattle Range East · outrange · Red Range · mountain range · High Range · shortrange · disrange · King Leopold Ranges · range light · Macedon Ranges · range hood · Bugle Ranges · Range of Light · The Range · Satpura Range · Rangeville · very-long-range · free range · range of motion · sentencing range · Sudirman Range · tidal range · home range · rangebased

Holonyms

codomain (values a function can obtain)

Hyponyms

maximum range (Hyponyms of range (maximum distance of effect)) · indoor range (Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)) · live-fire range (Hyponyms of range (area for military training)) · archery range (Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)) · rocket range (Hyponyms of range (area for military training)) · firing range (Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)) · artillery range (Hyponyms of range (area for military training)) · grenade range (Hyponyms of range (area for military training)) · target range (Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)) · tank range (Hyponyms of range (area for military training)) · shooting range (Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)) · gunnery range (Hyponyms of range (area for military training)) · effective range (Hyponyms of range (maximum distance of effect)) · slant range (Hyponyms of range (distance to something)) · missile range (Hyponyms of range (area for military training))

Synonyms

radius · base · compass · training area · training ground · distance

Translations (340)

pt pastagem (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · is myndmengi (math: set of values of a function) · sv urval (selection, array) · pt serra (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · es hornillo (large stove with many hotplates) · de Spannweite (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · cmn 放牧場 /放牧场 (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · ca ventall (selection, array) · el σκοπευτήριο (area for practicing shooting) · es sierra (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · el σειρά (selection, array) · fr gamme (selection, array) · ru о́бласть распростране́ния (ecology: area where a species is found) · th พิสัย (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · pl zasięg (maximum reach of capability) · cmn 全距 (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · ru ряд (selection, array) · it catena (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · fi joukko (selection, array) · tr sıradağ (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · de Umfang (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · mk дострел (maximum reach of capability) · fr prairie (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · fi vaeltelu (wandering or roving) · fi etäisyys (distance to the object) · uk ряд (selection, array) · el πεδίο βολής (area for military training or equipment testing) · fi levinneisyysalue (ecology: area where a species is found) · pl pasmo górskie (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · nl afstand (distance to the object) · ota تكیه (area for practicing shooting) · fi ääniala (music: scale of tones) · de Lebensraum (ecology: area where a species is found) · ru разбро́с (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · el σφαίρα (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · de Übungsplatz (area for military training or equipment testing) · ca àmbit (music: scale of tones) · es estufa (large stove with many hotplates) · tr menzil (maximum reach of capability) · de Herd (large stove with many hotplates) · uk діапазо́н (music: scale of tones) · cs rozsah (selection, array) · sl razpon (music: scale of tones) · pt fogão a lenha (large stove with many hotplates) · pl poligon (area for military training or equipment testing) · mt firxa (selection, array) · ca abast (maximum reach of capability) · nl spreidingsbreedte (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · de Umfang (music: scale of tones) · cmn 範圍 /范围 (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · pl piec (large stove with many hotplates) · sl veriga (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · is mynd (math: set of values of a function) · ga réim (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · eo amplekso (music: scale of tones) · ca interval (music: scale of tones) · pt intervalo (programming: sequential list of values) · cs obor hodnot (math: set of values of a function) · th สนามยิงปืน (area for practicing shooting) · sl vadišče (area for military training or equipment testing) · it ambiente naturale (ecology: area where a species is found) · sl nabor (selection, array) · bg обсег (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · fi peittoalue (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · fi vuoristo (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · fi ulottuma (baseball: defensive area covered by a player) · de Register (music: scale of tones) · nl oefenterrein (area for military training or equipment testing) · pl areał (ecology: area where a species is found) · bg обсег (maximum reach of capability) · it gamma (selection, array) · cmn 自然生長區 /自然生长区 (ecology: area where a species is found) · el απόσταση (distance to the object) · et muutumispiirkond (math: set of values of a function) · ml പരാസം (maximum reach of capability) · sv bergskedja (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · mr रांग (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · ca gamma (selection, array) · de Bereich (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · ar قدرة (maximum reach of capability) · de Weide (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · th ระยะ (distance to the object) · el βιότοπος (ecology: area where a species is found) · pt hábitat (ecology: area where a species is found) · pt alcance (maximum reach of capability) · de Weite (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · de Reichweite (maximum reach of capability) · fr sélection (selection, array) · de Strecke (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · nl bergketen (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · sv räckvidd (maximum reach of capability) · fi vuorijono (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · fr champ m champ de tir (area for practicing shooting) · uk да́льність (distance to the object) · km វិសាលគម (selection, array) · th ทิวเขา (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · es escala (selection, array) · el έκταση (distance to the object) · ru дальнобо́йность (distance to the object) · ru да́льность (maximum reach of capability) · fr portée (maximum reach of capability) · ca distància (distance to the object) · fr image (math: set of values of a function) · mi tahora (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · bg диапазон (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · el βοσκότοπος (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · bg област (math: set of values of a function) · tl taway (distance to the object) · cmn 距離 /距离 (distance to the object) · fi väli (programming: sequential list of values) · fi toimintasäde (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · fr amplitude (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · fi valikoima (selection, array) · it portata (maximum reach of capability) · bg сито (bolting sieve) · ota تكیه (area for military training or equipment testing) · cmn 煤氣灶 /煤气灶 (large stove with many hotplates) · de Rank (aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree) · it registro (music: scale of tones) · it stufa a legna (large stove with many hotplates) · pl paleta (selection, array) · it prateria (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · de Stimmumfang (music: scale of tones) · id kisaran (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · de Tonumfang (music: scale of tones) · it estensione (music: scale of tones) · it raggio (distance to the object) · de Gebiet (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · el εμβέλεια (maximum reach of capability) · enm schot (maximum reach of capability) · ru мно́жество (math: set of values of a function) · he מִנְעָד (music: scale of tones) · tl abot (math: set of values of a function) · ru плита́ (large stove with many hotplates) · cmn 分佈區 /分布区 (ecology: area where a species is found) · pt autonomia (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · fi ampumarata (area for practicing shooting) · cs střelnice (area for practicing shooting) · bg ку́хненска пе́чка (large stove with many hotplates) · ru ассортиме́нт (selection, array) · gl alcance (maximum reach of capability) · de Gebirgskette (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · it campo (distance to the object) · bg стрелбище (area for practicing shooting) · es rango (aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree) · fi laidunmaa (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · de Auswahl (selection, array) · pl strzelnica (area for practicing shooting) · fi harjoitusalue (area for military training or equipment testing) · fr chaîne (de montagnes) (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · it distanza (distance to the object) · ja 音域 (music: scale of tones) · nl bereik (maximum reach of capability) · de Gebirge (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · ca llista (programming: sequential list of values) · es rango (distance to the object) · fr diapason (music: scale of tones) · de Größenordnung (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · cmn 值域 (math: set of values of a function) · fr rayon [d'action] (distance to the object) · it poligono di tiro (area for practicing shooting) · ko 음역 (music: scale of tones) · fi kantama (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · cmn 音域 (music: scale of tones) · el κλίμακα (music: scale of tones) · de Verbreitungsgebiet (ecology: area where a species is found) · it autonomia (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · de Wertevorrat (math: set of values of a function) · ca devesa (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · af bergreeks (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · de Abstand (distance to the object) · cmn 最大有效射程 (maximum reach of capability) · ru па́стбище (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · bg размах (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · pl kuchenka (large stove with many hotplates) · af afstand (distance to the object) · bg диапазон (music: scale of tones) · fr étendue (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · ca serralada (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · es extensión (music: scale of tones) · fr étendue (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · zza koyerêzi (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · pt amplitude (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · fi peitto (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · fi matka (distance to the object) · ca rang (aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree) · vi dãy (selection, array) · el ακτίνα (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · fr terrain (de chasse) (area for military training or equipment testing) · el πεδίο τιμών (math: set of values of a function) · pt gama (selection, array) · it rosa (selection, array) · it portata (distance to the object) · fi liesi (large stove with many hotplates) · mi inenga whānui (math: set of values of a function) · cmn 爐灶 /炉灶 (large stove with many hotplates) · it piano cottura (large stove with many hotplates) · cop ⲣⲁ (maximum reach of capability) · ru го́рная цепь (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · ru го́рный хребе́т (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · ga sornóg (large stove with many hotplates) · cmn 極差 /极差 (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · nl spreiding (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · pl wachlarz (selection, array) · pl obszar występowania (ecology: area where a species is found) · cmn 電灶 /电灶 (large stove with many hotplates) · th แนวเขา (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · sl doseg (maximum reach of capability) · es dehesa (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · fi toimintamatka (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · da værdimængde (math: set of values of a function) · pl wybór (selection, array) · it intervallo (math: set of values of a function) · es rango (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · de Weideflächen (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · sv värdemängd (math: set of values of a function) · pt imagem (math: set of values of a function) · de Interval (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · pt cordilheira (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · hu értékkészlet (math: set of values of a function) · ru да́льность (distance to the object) · fi arvojoukko (math: set of values of a function) · de Zielmenge (math: set of values of a function) · fi kantomatka (maximum reach of capability) · ga sorn (large stove with many hotplates) · ga réimse (ecology: area where a species is found) · mi awhe (selection, array) · ca camp de Mart (area for military training or equipment testing) · nl verspreidingsgebied (ecology: area where a species is found) · it fornello (large stove with many hotplates) · de Spanne (selection, array) · ru ареа́л (ecology: area where a species is found) · fr ensemble d'arrivée (math: set of values of a function) · mi tauriparipa (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · fi talojono (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · de Gebirgszug (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · de Reichweite (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · fi vaihteluväli (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · el ακτίνα (maximum reach of capability) · fi laajuus (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · ml നിര (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · ca interval (math: set of values of a function) · sl razpon (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · it campo di variazione (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · ru диапазо́н (music: scale of tones) · pl zasięg (ecology: area where a species is found) · nl bereik (music: scale of tones) · uk послідо́вність (programming: sequential list of values) · ka მთაგრეხილი (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · ca camp de tir (area for practicing shooting) · fr plage (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · cmn 導彈發射場 /导弹发射场 (area for military training or equipment testing) · fr autonomie (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · ru тир (area for practicing shooting) · bg полигон (area for military training or equipment testing) · fr portée (distance to the object) · es abanico (selection, array) · ar مدى (maximum reach of capability) · pl pastwisko (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · ca amplitud (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · bg решето (bolting sieve) · fr cuisinière (large stove with many hotplates) · sv utbredningsområde (ecology: area where a species is found) · bg отстояние (distance to the object) · es defesa (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · ml പരിധി (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · de Entfernung (distance to the object) · zza menzil (maximum reach of capability) · ru полиго́н (area for military training or equipment testing) · it varietà (selection, array) · eo atingopovo (maximum reach of capability) · fi laidun (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · gl autonomía (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · ca hàbitat (ecology: area where a species is found) · uk да́льність (maximum reach of capability) · cmn 範圍 /范围 (programming: sequential list of values) · ca autonomia (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · pt raio (distance to the object) · cmn 打靶場 /打靶场 (area for practicing shooting) · bg обхват (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · de Palette (selection, array) · es cordillera (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · bg ареал (ecology: area where a species is found) · de Sortiment (selection, array) · el οροσειρά (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · th เรนจ์ (math: set of values of a function) · fi kantama (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · pt campo de tiro (area for practicing shooting) · ca fogó (large stove with many hotplates) · de Wertebereich (math: set of values of a function) · ko 음폭 (music: scale of tones) · ga sliabhraon (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · ru стре́льбище (area for practicing shooting) · pl gama (selection, array) · cmn 範圍 /范围 (distance to the object) · de Schießstand (area for practicing shooting) · it distesa (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · es campo de tiro (area for practicing shooting) · nl fornuis (large stove with many hotplates) · ca àmbit (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · gl cordilleira (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · it habitat (ecology: area where a species is found) · it gamma (music: scale of tones) · ru полиго́н (area for practicing shooting) · es alcance (maximum reach of capability) · it assortimento (selection, array) · uk діапазо́н (programming: sequential list of values) · el βεληνεκές (maximum reach of capability) · fi luokka (aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree) · ja 守備範囲 (baseball: defensive area covered by a player) · hu tartomány (maximum reach of capability) · sl strelišče (area for practicing shooting) · de Weideland (area of open, often unfenced, grazing land) · sw masafa (distance to the object) · vi chuỗi (selection, array) · fr gamme (music: scale of tones) · nl bereik (math: set of values of a function) · cmn 山脈 /山脉 (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · pt distância (distance to the object) · cmn 系列 (selection, array) · mi takiwātanga (extent of excursion; reach; scope) · ru досяга́емость (distance to the object) · es autonomía (distance a vehicle (car, byke, lorry, aircraft) can travel without refueling) · cmn 防守領域 /防守领域 (baseball: defensive area covered by a player) · ar مَدَى (statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation) · fr habitat (ecology: area where a species is found) · eo montaro (line of mountains, buildings etc.) · sv skjutbana (area for practicing shooting) · af skietbaan (area for practicing shooting) · fr habitat naturel (ecology: area where a species is found) · ru о́бласть (math: set of values of a function) · pt carreira de tiro (area for practicing shooting) · vi loạt (selection, array) · eo gamo (selection, array) · af waardeversameling (math: set of values of a function) · cmn 變程 /变程 (math: set of values of a function) · tr Değer kümesi (math: set of values of a function) · fi kantama (maximum reach of capability) · fr distance (distance to the object) · el πεδίο δράσης (extent of excursion; reach; scope)

range en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈɹɛjnd͡ʒ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈɾeːnd͡ʒ/ (Wales) without the pane–pain merger
  • /ˈɹæɪnd͡ʒ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈɾend͡ʒ/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɹeːnd͡ʒ/ Northern England, Ireland, monophthongization

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.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
    • to range the fields
    • Novv to the copſe thy leſſer ſpaniel take, / Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake; […] 1713, John Gay, “Rural Sports. A Georgic. Inscribed to Mr. [Alexander] Pope.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Bernard Lintot, […], published 1720, →OCLC, page 21, lines 345–346:
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
    • The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
    • 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. 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Bag”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 76:
    • 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. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
  5. (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.
    • 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. 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
    • The 2025 timetable would feature two trains per hour, alternately routed via Kirkcaldy (with 11 intermediate stops) and Dunfermline (14 stops), with journey times ranging between 65 and 81 minutes. 2023 November 1, Robert Drysdale, “Leven is nearly back on track...”, in RAIL, number 995, page 58:
    • The police seized 12,000 files containing information on a wide range of organisations and individuals. The ADL claimed to be only monitoring ‘hate groups’, and denied passing information to Israel or South Africa. But the files ranged over Arab-American community organisations, trade unions, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, Anti-Apartheid, Women in Black and the International Jewish Peace Union. Only a relative handful of files dealt with the far right. 2002, Charlie Pottins, “How ADL got caught in Apartheid spy case”, in Jewish Socialist, number 46:
  6. (transitive) To classify.
    • The coins are ranged into nine classes. 1785, William Coxe, Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, page 129:
    • to range plants and animals in genera and species
    • All requirements could be ranged into the classes. 2013, Hubert Kals, Fred van Houten, Integration of Process Knowledge into Design Support, page 378:
  7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
    • The front of a house ranges with the street.
    • The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs. 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night:
  8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
    • And range with humble livers in content. 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
  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.
    • Maccabeus ranged his army by hands. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Bible Maccabees/#12 2 Maccabees:12–20:
    • Were this dependence of the body and mind more studied, and its effects collected and ranged into proper order; no doubt, we would be able to form a better judgment of it, and see further into the good purposes to which it serves; 1740, George Turnbull, The Principles of Moral Philosophy, page 77:
  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.
    • It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society. 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
  11. To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
    • The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
  12. (of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
  13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
    • to range the coast
  14. Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
    • 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. 2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, →ISBN, page 250:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ranged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ranged Tense=Past lexicographic
ranges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ranging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

range out · broad-ranging · wide-ranging

Synonyms

run

Translations (26)

fi purjehtia jotakin pitkin (to sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near) · fi olla rivissä (to form a line or a row) · fi kulkea jonkin läpi (to rove over or through) · fi asettua (to place among others in a line, row or order) · fi esiintyä (to be native to, or live in, a certain region) · bg странствам (to rove over or through) · fi olla kotoisin (to be native to, or live in, a certain region) · fi järjestää jonoon (to set in a row, or in rows) · bg подреждам (to set in a row, or in rows) · fi tulla pannuksi järjestykseen (to be placed in order) · fi vaihdella (of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range) · fi sijoittaa (to place among others in a line, row or order) · fi järjestää riviin (to set in a row, or in rows) · fi tulla luokitelluksi (to be placed in order) · bg варирам (of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range) · fi kulkea jonkin yli (to rove over or through) · fi asettaa (to bring into a specified position or relationship with something else) · bg подреждам (to bring into a specified position or relationship with something else) · el στοιχίζω (to set in a row, or in rows) · bg нареждам се (to form a line or a row) · fi asettaa (to place among others in a line, row or order) · fi hallita (to exercise the power of something over something else) · fi sijoittaa (to bring into a specified position or relationship with something else) · el παρατάσσω (to be placed in order) · fi purjehtia jonkin suuntaisesti (to sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near) · fi olla linjassa jonkin kanssa (to form a line or a row)