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      range
      noun
      A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
      A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
      Selection, array.
      An area for practicing shooting at targets.
      An area for military training or equipment testing.
      The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
      The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
      The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
      An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
      The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
      (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
      (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.
      (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
      (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
      (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
      (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
      An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
      A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
      The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
      A surname.
      A place in the United States:
      An unincorporated community in Conecuh County, Alabama.
      A township and unincorporated community therein, in Madison County, Ohio.
      An unincorporated community in the towns of Apple River and Beaver, Polk County, Wisconsin.
      (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
      (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
      (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
      verb
      (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
      (transitive) To rove over or through.
      (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
      (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
      (transitive) To classify.
      (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
      (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
      (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.
      (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.
      (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
      (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
      To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
      (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
      (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
      Roots
      rangierrange- · Old French · to set in a row, arrange
      Synonyms for range
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      Words related to range
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