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1. n. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. | |
2. n. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. | |
3. n. Selection, array. | |
We sell a wide range of cars. | |
4. n. An area for practicing shooting at targets. | |
5. n. An area for military training or equipment testing. | |
6. n. 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. n. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.). | |
This missile's range is 500 kilometres. | |
8. n. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land. | |
9. n. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope. | |
10. n. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain. | |
11. n. (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. n. (sports) The defensive area that a player can cover. | |
Jones has good range for a big man. | |
13. n. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce. | |
14. n. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found. | |
15. n. (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator. | |
std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range. | |
16. n. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. | |
17. n. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung. | |
18. n. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal. | |
19. n. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. | |
20. n. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart. | |
21. n. The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes. | |
22. n. 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. | |
23. v. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. | |
24. v. To rove over or through. | |
to range the fields | |
25. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. | |
26. v. To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. | |
27. v. (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. | |
28. v. To classify. | |
to range plants and animals in genera and species | |
29. v. (intransitive) To form a line or a row. | |
The front of a house ranges with the street. | |
30. v. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. | |
31. v. 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. | |
32. v. 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. | |
33. v. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region. | |
The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay. | |
34. v. To separate into parts; to sift. | |
35. v. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near. | |
to range the coast | |
36. v. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play. | |
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