Definitions for Range

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Range range

Spelling: [reynj]

IPA: /reɪndʒ/

Range is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Range (aegnr).

Definitions for Range

noun

1. the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
2. the extent or scope of the operation or action of something:
3. the distance to which a projectile is or may be sent by a weapon.
4. the distance of the target from the weapon.
5. an area equipped with targets for practice in shooting weapons:
6. an area used for flight-testing missiles.
7. the distance of something to be located from some point of operation, as in sound ranging.
8. the distance that can be covered by an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle, carrying a normal load without refueling.
9. Statistics. the difference between the largest and smallest values in a statistical distribution.
10. a continuous course of masonry of the same height from end to end.
11. Music. compass (def 4).
12. Surveying. the horizontal direction or extension of a survey line established by two or more marked points. (in U.S. public-land surveys) one of a series of divisions numbered east or west from the principal meridian of the survey and consisting of a row of townships, each six miles square, that are numbered north or south from a base line.
13. Navigation. a line established by markers or lights on shore for the location of soundings.
14. a rank, class, or order:
15. a row, line, or series, as of persons or things.
16. an act of ranging or moving around, as over an area or region.
17. Also called rangeland. an area or tract that is or may be ranged over, especially an open region for the grazing of livestock.
18. the region over which a population or species is distributed:
19. Mathematics. the set of all values attained by a given function throughout its domain.
20. a chain of mountains forming a single system:
21. a large portable or stationary cooking stove having burners built into the top surface and containing one or more ovens.
22. Physics. the maximum distance that a charged particle, as a proton, can penetrate a given medium and still maintain sufficient kinetic energy to produce ionization in the medium.
23. Nautical. a large cleat for securing various lines, especially the tacks and sheets of courses. a length of anchor cable laid on deck.

Idioms

1. in range, (of two or more objects observed from a vessel) located one directly behind the other.

adjective

1. working or grazing on a range:

verb (used with object)

1. to draw up or arrange (persons or things) in rows or lines or in a specific position, company, or group:
2. to place or arrange systematically; set in order; dispose:
3. to place in a particular class; classify:
4. to make straight, level, or even, as lines of type.
5. to pass over or through (an area or region) in all directions, as in exploring or searching:
6. to pasture (cattle) on a range.
7. to direct or train, as a telescope, upon an object.
8. to obtain the range of (something aimed at or to be located).
9. Nautical. to lay out (an anchor cable) so that the anchor may descend smoothly.

verb (used without object)

1. to vary within certain limits:
2. to have a certain variety of things somehow related:
3. to move around or through a region in all directions, as people or animals.
4. to rove, roam, or wander:
5. to stretch out or extend in a line, as things:
6. to extend, run, or go in a certain direction:
7. to lie or extend in the same line or plane, as one thing with another or others.
8. to take up a position in a line or in order.
9. to extend, be found, or occur over an area or throughout a period, as an animal or plant.
10. to have a specified range, as a gun, missile, etc.
11. to find the range, as of something aimed at or to be located.
12. Nautical. (of an anchored vessel) to swerve or sheer (often followed by about).

Origin of Range

1350-1400; (noun) Middle English Old French renge row, derivative of renc line; see rank¹; (v.) Middle English rangen Middle French ranger, Old French reng

Examples for Range

We sighted the range and hill seen by my brother, and reached it at sundown.

They saw something now that was at least two feet below their range.

Like boxers, every missile has a reach, a range, a limit to how far it can hit.

Human trafficking was once a crime associated primarily with a range of small to large crime groups.

Before we reached the range we had most miserable spinifex sand-hills.

Fees can range from £5,000 to £20,000, the attraction being the relatability she holds with her subscribers.

We turned east for ten miles to a range, which we found to be covered with spinifex.

The marsh appears to follow along the south side of the range.

Their legendary barrel aging program is unique, even among Scottish distilleries, for its range of natural color expressions.

They just reflect the range of breeds that were used to create the Heck cattle in the first instance.