Word Finder - range

definition

A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

definition

A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.

definition

Selection, array.

example

We sell a wide range of cars.

definition

An area for practicing shooting at targets.

definition

An area for military training or equipment testing.

synonyms

• base
• training area
• training ground

definition

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

example

One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.

synonyms

• distance
• radius

definition

Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).

example

This missile's range is 500 kilometres.

definition

An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.

definition

Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.

definition

The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.

definition

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.

definition

The defensive area that a player can cover.

example

Jones has good range for a big man.

definition

The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.

synonyms

• compass

definition

The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.

definition

A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.

example

std::for_each  calls the given function on each value in the input range.

definition

An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

definition

The step of a ladder; a rung.

definition

A bolting sieve to sift meal.

definition

A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

definition

In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.

definition

The scope of something, the extent that something covers or includes.

definition

The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

example

By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his acting range.

definition

To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.

definition

To rove over or through.

example

to range the fields

definition

To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.

definition

To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.

definition

(followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.

example

The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.

definition

To classify.

example

to range plants and animals in genera and species

definition

To form a line or a row.

example

The front of a house ranges with the street.

definition

To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

definition

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.

definition

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.

definition

To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.

example

The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

definition

To separate into parts; to sift.

definition

To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.

example

to range the coast

definition

Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

Get yourself to the range and learn to shoot.

The trio was out of camera range a few steps later.

You're out of range up here.

In the King William range is the painted hall.

At any single station potential gradient has a wide range of values.

Vegetarians can choose from a wide range of options.

Colorado boasts a range of outdoor activities, ranging from skiing and snowshoeing to rafting, hiking, climbing and biking.

Columbus also boasts a wide range of world-class steak houses.

She flinched and moved away from the window to put the pot over a fire on the range.

A putting green, driving range and nine-hole golf course are popular as well.

The restaurant's menu choices range from the typical (mostly fried) appetizers, burgers and salads to a full-entree menu that includes steaks, seafood and pasta.

It is true that our best authority, Arrian, fails to substantiate the traditional view satisfactorily; on the other hand those who maintain it urge that Arrian's interests were mainly military, and that the other authorities, if inferior in trustworthiness, are completer in range of vision.

Southern Albania, again, is almost wholly mountainous, with the exception of the plains of Iannina and Arta; the most noteworthy feature is the rugged range of the Tchika, or Khimara mountains, which skirt the sea-coast from south-west to northeast, terminating in the lofty promontory of Glossa (ancient Acroceraunia).

Pennsylvania offers visitors a wide range of outdoor activities.

The Mutan-kiang takes its rise, like the Sungari, on the northern slopes of the Chang pai Shan range, and not far from the sources of that river.

We can build these machines to do an incomprehensibly large range of tasks.

As national income increases in a given country, the size of government as a portion of gross national product (GNP) rises and the range of services people expect the government to offer rises.

Known to many as a hangout for locals, the restaurant offers a full menu, with a range of choices from fajitas to fish and chips.

These restaurants are popular for good reason-the menu offers a wide range of options sure to appeal to fondue lovers and to make converts out of those who have yet to be introduced to fondue.

The restaurant's extensive margarita selection includes a range of tequilas and a "very secret" homemade sour mix.

Alex had the foresight to have the builders install a gas range.

Gerry stayed outside his mindreading range up the beach, his movement stilled as he watched.

They'd be unable to sense her, until she was within striking range.

That God is love and that the purpose of His love is the moral organization of humanity in the "Kingdom of God" - this idea, with its immense range of application-.-is applied in Ritschl's initial datum.

They are all inhabitants of the open plains or the forests of the tropical and temperate parts of South America, with the exception of a few species which range as far north as Texas.

The highland region of northern Albania is divided into two portions by the lower course of the Drin; the mountains of the northern portion, the Bieska Malziis, extend in a confused and broken series of ridges from Scutari to the valleys of the Ibar and White Drin; they comprise the rocky group of the Prokletia, or Accursed Mountains, with their numerous ramifications, including Mount Velechik, inhabited by the Kastrat and Shkrel tribes, Bukovik by the Hot, Golesh by the Klement, Skulsen (7533 ft.), Baba Vrkh (about 7306 ft.), Maranay near Scutari, and the Bastrik range to the east.

The greatest number of Jews is to be found at Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux, while the departments of the centre and of the south along the range of the Cvennes, where Calvinism flourishes, are the principal Protestant localities, Nimes being the most important centre.

An eastern system in South Australia touches at a few points a height of 3000 ft.; and the Stirling Range, belonging to the south-western system of South Australia, reaches to 2340 ft.

On the west the Darling Range faces the Indian Ocean, and extends from Point D'Entrecasteaux to the Murchison river.

This is Mount Wingen, situated in a spur of the Liverpool Range and close to the town of Scone.

Between the Russian Pamirs and Chinese Turkestan the rugged line of the Sarikol range intervenes, the actual dividing line being still indefinite.

Ejections of basaltic lava have been observed on the southern slope vo of this range, extending over wide areas on the plateau itself, over a stretch of more than 600 m.

The central Cevennes, comprising the volcanic chain of Vivarais, incline south-east and extend as far as the Lozere group. The northern portion of this chain forms the Boutieres range.

With such an enormous geographical range the species must of necessity present itself under a considerable number of local phases, differing from one another to a greater or less degree in the matters of size and colouring.

This range is also known under various local names.

At the very least, history can clearly show the range of outcomes that are likely.

That range between the smallest pea plant and the largest is the full spectrum of what that plant can be.

I think the range of problems that technology can solve is confined to technological problems.

The menu was designed to accommodate fine dining as well as family dining, offering a range of appetizers and entrees.

Besides the lofty central masses enumerated there are two other lofty peaks, outliers from the main range, and separated from it by valleys of considerable extent.

Not only did commune range itself against commune under the two rival flags, but party rose up against party within the city walls.

Lucretius thus recognizes the whole range of existence to which the doctrine of evolution may be applied.

Naturalists who deal specially with museum collections have been compelled, it is true, for other reasons to attach an increasing importance to what is called the type specimen, but they find that this insistence on the individual, although invaluable from the point of view of recording species, is unsatisfactory from the point of view of scientific zoology; and propositions for the amelioration of this condition of affairs range from a refusal of Linnaean nomenclature in such cases, to the institution of a division between master species for such species as have been properly revised by the comparative morphologist, and provisional species for such species as have been provisionally registered by those working at collections.

When an organ is stated to be variable, the biometricist demands statistics to show the range of the variations and the mode of their distribution.

Seeds are carried in soil adhering to their feet and plumage, and aquatic plants have in consequence for the most part an exceptionally wide range.

Amongst broadleaved trees Juglans has a similar Holarctic range, descending to the West Indies; so has Aesculus, were it not lacking in Europe; it becomes tropical in South America and Malaya.

Assuming that in its circumpolar origin the North Temperate flora was fairly homogeneous, it would meet in its centrifugal extension with a wide range of local conditions; these would favor the preservation of numerous species in some genera, their greater or less elimination in others.

As in the IndoMalayan sub-region, epiphytic orchids are probably most numerous in point of species, but the genera and even sub-tribes are far more restricted in their range than in the Old World; 4 sub-tribes with 74 genera of Vandeae are confined to South America, though varying in range of climate and altitude.

This place may either be a point, as in a volcanic cone, or a line, as in a mountain range or ridge of hills.

Thus, for example, in a mountain range at right angles to a prevailing sea-wind, it is the land forms which determine that one side of the range shall be richly watered and deeply dissected by a complete system of valleys, while the other side is dry, indefinite in its valley systems, and sends none of its scanty drainage to the sea.