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UK
/ɹˈeɪndʒ/
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[ US /ˈɹeɪndʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹeɪndʒ/ ]
VERB
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range or extend over; occupy a certain area
The plants straddle the entire state -
let eat
range the animals in the prairie -
change or be different within limits
Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion
My students range from very bright to dull
Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent
The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals -
assign a rank or rating to
The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
how would you rank these students? -
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
The cattle roam across the prairie
They rolled from town to town
The gypsies roamed the woods
roving vagabonds
the laborers drift from one town to the next
the wandering Jew -
have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
This gun ranges over two miles -
lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
lay out the arguments
lay out the clothes -
feed as in a meadow or pasture
the herd was grazing
NOUN
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a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring
he dreamed of a home on the range -
the limits within which something can be effective
range of motion
he was beyond the reach of their fire -
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
dinner was already on the stove -
(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers -
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
the ambit of municipal legislation
a piano has a greater range than the human voice
outside the reach of the law
within the compass of this article
in the political orbit of a world power
the range of a supersonic jet
within the scope of an investigation -
the limit of capability
within the compass of education -
a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds
any good golf club will have a range where you can practice
the army maintains a missile range in the desert -
a series of hills or mountains
the plains lay just beyond the mountain range
the valley was between two ranges of hills -
a variety of different things or activities
he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection
he answered a range of questions
How To Use range In A Sentence
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
- So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
- I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
- A third goal at that stage would have saved Rangers a lot of bother.
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
- Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match.
- Squatting down, Trent poured rum and squeezed orange juice into the cups.
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.