Word Finder - range

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A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

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

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Selection, array.

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We sell a wide range of cars.

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An area for practicing shooting at targets.

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An area for military training or equipment testing.

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• base
• training area
• training ground

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

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

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• distance
• radius

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

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This missile's range is 500 kilometres.

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An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.

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

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

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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.

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The defensive area that a player can cover.

example

Jones has good range for a big man.

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

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• compass

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

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A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.

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

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

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The step of a ladder; a rung.

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A bolting sieve to sift meal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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To rove over or through.

example

to range the fields

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

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

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

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

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To classify.

example

to range plants and animals in genera and species

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To form a line or a row.

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The front of a house ranges with the street.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

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To separate into parts; to sift.

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

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to range the coast

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