range

See also: Range, rangé, rangë, ränge, and Ränge

range - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Noun

range (plural ranges)

  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 hotplates.
  3. Selection, array.
    • We sell a wide range of cars.
  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.
    • 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.
    • Synonyms: distance, radius
  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.
  10. The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  11. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  12. (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.
  13. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
    • Jones has good range for a big man.
  14. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  15. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  16. (programming) 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.
  18. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
  19. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  20. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  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.
    • By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his acting range.

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
  • artillery range
  • grenade range
  • live-fire range
  • missile range
  • rocket range
  • tank range
Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)
Hyponyms of range (distance to something)
Hyponyms of range (maximum distance of effect)
  • effective range
  • maximum range

Holonyms

  • (values a function can obtain): codomain

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

  • Bulgarian: полигон m (poligon)
  • Catalan: camp de Mart m
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 導彈發射場导弹发射场 (dǎodàn fāshèchǎng)
  • Dutch: oefenterrein (nl) n
  • Finnish: harjoitusalue
  • French: terrain (fr) (de chasse) m
  • German: Übungsplatz m
  • Greek: πεδίο βολής (el) n (pedío volís)
  • Russian: полиго́н (ru) m (poligón)
  • Slovene: vadišče n

Verb

range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
    • to range the fields
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
  4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
  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.
  6. (transitive) To classify.
    • to range plants and animals in genera and species
  7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
    • The front of a house ranges with the street.
  8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  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.
  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.
  11. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
    • The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
  12. (military, 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. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

For more quotations using this term, see range.

Translations

  • Chinese:
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  • Finnish: hallita (fi)
  • Bulgarian: подреждам (bg) (podreždam)
  • Chinese:
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  • Finnish: sijoittaa (fi), asettaa (fi)
  • Bulgarian: варирам (bg) (variram)
  • Chinese:
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  • Finnish: vaihdella (fi)
  • Bulgarian: нареждам се (nareždam se)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: olla linjassa jonkin kanssa (to range with something); olla rivissä (to form a row)
  • Chinese:
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  • Finnish: asettaa (fi), sijoittaa (fi); asettua (fi) (to range oneself)
  • Chinese:
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  • Finnish: olla kotoisin (to be native to); esiintyä (fi) (to live)

Anagrams

range - Estonian

Adjective

range (genitive range, partitive ranget, comparative rangem, superlative kõige rangem)

  1. strict

Declension

singular plural
nominative range ranged
accusative range ranged
genitive range rangete
partitive ranget rangeid
illative rangesse rangetesse rangeisse
inessive ranges rangetes rangeis
elative rangest rangetest rangeist
allative rangele rangetele rangeile
adessive rangel rangetel rangeil
ablative rangelt rangetelt rangeilt
translative rangeks rangeteks rangeiks
terminative rangeni rangeteni
essive rangena rangetena
abessive rangeta rangeteta
comitative rangega rangetega

range - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈrɑŋːe/, [ˈrɑŋːe̞]
  • IPA: /ˈrei̯ntsi/, [ˈre̞i̯nts̠i]
  • Syllabification: ran‧ge

Noun

range

  1. (golf) range, shooting range (place to practice shooting)

Declension

  • The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used when talking about location; for example, "at the range" is rangella.
  • In writing, inflected after pronunciation 1:
Inflection of range (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative range ranget
genitive rangen rangejen
partitive rangea rangeja
illative rangeen rangeihin
Possessive forms of range (type nalle)

range - French

Verb

range

  1. inflection of ranger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

range - Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

range f (definite singular ranga, indefinite plural ranger, definite plural rangene)

  1. the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out
  2. the trachea, due to it being the wrong pipe, as opposed to the oesophagus, when eating

Verb

range (present tense rangar, past tense ranga, past participle ranga, passive infinitive rangast, present participle rangande, imperative range/rang)

  1. (transitive) to turn inside-out (e.g. a piece of clothing)

Alternative forms

Derived terms

  • range seg inn på ein

Adjective

range

  1. definite singular of rang
  2. plural of rang

Anagrams

range - Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɐ̃.ʒi/ [ˈhɐ̃.ʒi]
  • (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁɐ̃.ʒ(ɨ)/

Verb

range

  1. inflection of ranger:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
Meaning and Definition of range
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