range

English Online Dictionary. What means range‎? What does range mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

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.
4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5. An area for military training or equipment testing.

   Synonyms: base, training area, training ground

6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.

   Synonyms: distance, radius

7. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).

8. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.

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.

    Antonym: domain

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.

14. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.

    Synonym: compass

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.

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.
    • , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"

      He may take a range all the world over.

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.

Hyponyms

Holonyms

• (values a function can obtain): codomain

Coordinate terms

• (firing range): shooting gallery
• (radius): azimuth, elevation, inclination
• (cooking stove): oven

Derived terms

Descendants

• Japanese: レンジ (​renji)
• Korean: 레인지 (reinji)

Translations

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. [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th–19th c.]
4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
5. (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
6. (transitive) To classify.
7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
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.

12. (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.

14. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:range.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “range”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “range”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “range”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “range”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “range”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “range”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “range”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

• Agner, Negar, Regan, anger, areng, grane, regna, renga

Estonian

Etymology

Coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.

Adjective

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

1. strict

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English range.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑŋːe/, [ˈrɑ̝ŋːe̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈrei̯ntsi/, [ˈre̞i̯n.ts̠i]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋːe, -eintsi
• Hyphenation^(key): ran‧ge

Noun

range

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

   Synonyms: harjoittelualue, harjoitusalue

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:

French

Pronunciation

Verb

range

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

Anagrams

• nager, régna

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the adjective rang and vrang.

Noun

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

1. the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out

   Antonym: rette

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

• ranga (a-infinitive)

Derived terms

• range seg inn på ein

Adjective

range

1. definite singular of rang
2. plural of rang

References

• “range” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ganer, garen, genar, grena, ragen, ragne, regna, renga

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

range

1. inflection of ranger:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of rangir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative