range /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/noun 22verb 14forms 5phrases 1 noun22 •a choice of many different kinds of somethingWe sell a wide range of cars. •The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).This missile's range is 500 kilometres. •The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres. •The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.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 •The defensive area that a player can cover.Jones has good range for a big man. •The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce. •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. •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. •A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. •(US) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart. •An area for practicing shooting at targets. •An area for military training or equipment testing. •The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found. •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 •The set of values (points) which a function can obtain. •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. •A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates). •A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range. •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. •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. — 1677 •(no longer used) The step of a ladder; a rung. •(dialect, no longer used) A bolting sieve to sift meal. verb14 •To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. •To rove over or through.Novv to the copse thy lesser spaniel take, / Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake; […] — 1713 •Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play. •To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay. •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. •To form a line or a row.The front of a house ranges with the street. •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 •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 •To classify.to range plants and animals in genera and species •To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.And range with humble livers in content. — 1613 •To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.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 •To determine the range to a target. •To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near. •(no longer used) 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 formsranged · ranging · ranges · rangeth · rangest Phrases with range range outTo mark intermediate points between two survey stations.