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Noun

1. The area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale.

grand hotels were outside my price range

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2. The scope of a person's knowledge or abilities.

Since then, she has gained a vast range of knowledge in all things equine.

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3. The compass of a person's voice or a musical instrument.

Her deep, powerful voice has quite a range and she knows how to sell a song.

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4. The period of time covered by something such as a forecast.

The accuracy of the method varies within reasonable limits depending on the time range of the forecast for different conditions.

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5. The area covered by or included in something.

The range of Walker's mathematical research was quite impressive.

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6. The set of values that a given function can take as its argument varies.

You also have to assign the core terms numerical values or ranges.

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7. A set of different things of the same general type.

He is set to release his own range of luxury cars.

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8. The distance within which a person can see or hear.

something lurked just beyond her range of vision

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9. The maximum distance to which a gun will shoot or over which a missile will travel.

these rockets have a range of 30 to 40 miles

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10. The maximum distance at which a radio transmission can be effectively received.

Often truck convoys and support units were out of range of each other's radios.

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11. The distance that can be covered by a vehicle or aircraft without refuelling.

The vehicle has a range of 214 miles with a maximum speed of 40mph.

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12. The distance between a camera and the subject to be photographed.

Don't go past the camera's optical zoom range, or you'll be sorry!

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13. A line or series of mountains or hills.

There are a few ridges and ranges in the distance.

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14. (ranges) Mountainous or hilly country.

Our economy is dependant on the tourists and the tourists want to see the landscape, the ranges and the mountains.

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15. A large area of open land for grazing or hunting.

First, deer herds on many ranges are overpopulated, often with too many does.

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16. An area of land or sea used as a testing ground for military equipment.

To this day locals need permission to go to the missile test range.

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17. An open or enclosed area with targets for shooting practice.

I want to buy a shotgun and start going to the range.

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18. The area over which a plant or animal is distributed.

the chimpanzee extensively overlaps the gorilla in its forest range

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19. A large cooking stove with burners or hotplates and one or more ovens, all of which are kept continually hot.

The kitchen has an Aga range, wooden shelves and storage spaces throughout.

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20. An electric or gas cooker.

They use much less energy than electric ranges.

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21. A row of buildings.

To the rear of the residence is a range of cut stone offices.

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22. A continuous stretch of a building.

The south range, with a prospect over the sea, was probably the principal residence, though now inaccessible to archaeology.

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23. The direction or position in which something lies.

There are in these strata many faults or irregularities, by which the due range of the strata is thrown out of course.

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Verb

1. Vary or extend between specified limits.

prices range from £30 to £100

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2. Place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner.

a table with half a dozen chairs ranged around it

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3. Run or extend in a line in a particular direction.

The lines of people ranged all the way down the long hallway.

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4. (with reference to type) align or be aligned, especially at the ends of successive lines.

With columns this narrow, it is better to range the type left.

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5. (range someone against or be ranged against) Place oneself or be placed in opposition to (a person or group)

Japan ranged herself against the European nations

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6. (of a person or animal) travel or wander over a wide area.

patrols ranged deep into enemy territory

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7. (of a person's eyes) pass from one person or thing to another.

She noticed his eyes ranging over her body.

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8. (of something written or spoken) cover a wide number of different topics.

Many of the lecturers ranged over very broad canvases.

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9. Obtain the range of a target by adjustment after firing past it or short of it, or by the use of radar or laser equipment.

radar-type transmissions which appeared to be ranging on our convoys

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10. (of a projectile) cover a specified distance.

The missiles are capable of ranging over 8000 meters.

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11. (of a gun) send a projectile over a specified distance.

A 12" gun can range past 30000 yards.

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Origin

1. Middle English (in the sense ‘line of people or animals’): from Old French range ‘row, rank’, from rangier ‘put in order’, from rang ‘rank’. Early usage also included the notion of ‘movement over an area’.

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