Word Finder - ranges

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

He was studying the mountain ranges intently.

Beyond them mountain ranges faded into shades of blue in the humid air.

The basins of the Parana and Paraguay are separated by low mountain ranges extending north from the sierras of Paraguay.

There are about 320 officers in active service, and the total personnel ranges from 5000 to 6000 men.

So complete is the watershed that no streams pass through these ranges, and there is hardly any communication in this direction between the interior of Asia Minor and the coast.

The elevated plateaus between these ranges are semiarid and inhospitable, and are covered with extensive saline basins, which become lagoons in the wet season and morasses or dry saltpans in the dry season.

Its basin forms the province of Kabul, which includes all northern Afghanistan between the Hindu Kush and the Safed Koh ranges.

This mountainous tract, which has an average breadth of from 50 to 60 m., is bounded west by the plain of Campania, now called the Terra di Lavoro, and east by the much broader and more extensive tract of Apulia or Puglia, composed partly of level plains, but for the most part of undulating downs, contrasting strongly with the mountain ranges of the Apennines, which rise abruptly above them.

The valleys within the hill ranges are fragrant with aromatic shrubs.

Already in 1884 a protocol had been signed between the contending parties, by which it was agreed that the frontier should follow the line where " the highest peaks of the Andine ranges divide the watershed."

The mountains both in Victoria and New South Wales were snow-capped, and glaciers flowed down their flanks and laid down Carboniferous glacial deposits, which are still preserved in basins that flank the mountain ranges, such as the famous conglomerates of Bacchus Marsh, Heathcote and the Loddon valley in Victoria, and cf Branxton and other localities in New South Wales.

These movements in the south-east formed the Great Valley of Victoria, which traverses nearly the whole of the state between the Victorian highlands to the north, and the Jurassic sandstones of the Otway Ranges and the hills of south Gippsland.

The whole residency is mountainous, but there are two main parallel ranges of peaks along the northern boundary and through the middle.

The common or true duiker (C. grimmi) is found in bush-country from the Cape to the Zambezi and Nyasaland, and ranges northward on the west coast to Angola.

The speed of the receiving perforator ranges from 20 to 150 words per minute.

Being built midway between the Sierra de Priego and Sierra Parapanda, and commanding the open valley between these ranges, it became one of the chief frontier fortresses of the Moors in the 15th century.

The principal industry is stock-raising, which dates from the first settlement in 1674 by Domingos Affonso Mafrense, who established here a large number of cattle ranges.

There is no other instance in Europe of a basin of similar extent equally clearly characterized—the perfectly level character of the plain being as striking as the boldness with which the lower slopes of the mountain ranges begin to rise on each side of it.

The line of the highest summits and of the watershed ranges is about 30 to 40 m.

But the Apennines of Central Italy, instead of presenting, like the Alps and the northern Apennines, a definite central ridge, with transverse valleys leading down from it on both sides, in reality constitute a mountain mass of very considerable breadth, composed of a number of minor ranges and groups of mountains, which preserve a generally parallel direction, and are separated by upland valleys, some of them of considerable extent as well as considerable elevation above the sea.

Nor do the highest summits form a continuous ridge of great altitude for any considerable distance; they are rather a series of groups separated by tracts of very inferior elevation forming natural passes across the range, and broken in some places (as is the case in almost all limestone countries) by the waters from the upland valleys turning suddenly at right angles, and breaking through the mountain ranges which bound them.

The northern part of Tuscany is indeed occupied to a considerable extent by the underfalls and offshoots of the Apennines, which, besides the slopes and spurs of the main range that constitutes its northern frontier towards the plain of the Po, throw off several outlying ranges or groups.

Eastward from this the ranges of low bare hills called the Murgie of Gravina and Altamura gradually sink into the still more moderate level of those which constitute the peninsular tract between Brindisi and Taranto as far as the Cape of Sta Maria di Leuca, the south-east extremity of Italy.

Nor, with perhaps the interesting exception of Castanopsis chrysophylla, the solitary representative in the New World of an east Asiatic genus, which ranges from Oregon to California, has it any affinity with the Chino-Japanese sub-region.

Cycads are represented by Cycas itself, which in several species ranges from southern India to Polynesia.

Baccharis, with some 250 species, ranges over the whole continent from the Straits of Magellan and, with seven species, to California.

Elie de Beaumont, in his speculations on the relation between the direction of mountain ranges and their geological age and character, was feeling towards a comprehensive theory of the forms of crustal relief; but his ideas were too geometrical, and his theory that the earth is a spheroid built up on a rhombic dodecahedron, the pentagonal faces of which determined the direction of mountain ranges, could not be proved.'

The relief of the surface typically includes a central plain, Homology sometimes dipping below sea-level, bounded by lateral Homology of con- h i ghlands or mountain ranges, loftier on one side than.

Differences in land forms do not exert great influence on the distribution of living creatures directly, but indirectly such land forms as mountain ranges and internal drainage basins are very potent through their action on soil and climate.

Next in importance comes a mountain range, but here there is often difficulty as to the definition of the actual crest-line, and mountain ranges being broad regions, it may happen that a small independent state, like Switzerland or Andorra, occupies the mountain valleys between two or more great countries.

Ranges of these chapadas form the boundary lines with three states - the Serras dos Irmaos and Vermelha with Piauhy, the Serra do Araripe with Ceara., and the Serra dos Cariris Velhos with Parahyba.

South of the lake two ranges of the Tian-shan, separated by the valley of the Naryn, stretch in the same direction, lifting up their icy peaks to 16,000 and 18,000 ft.; while westwards from the lake the precipitous slopes of the Alexander chain, 9000 to io,000 ft.

Its principal mountain ranges were Cebenna or Gebenna (Cevennes) in the south, and Jura, with its continuation Vosegus or Vogesus (Vosges), in the east.

The hardness ranges from about I to 2, and the sp.gr.

Russia; the Valdai tablelands, where all the great rivers of Russia take their rise; the broad and gently sloping meridional belt of the Ural Mountains; and lastly the Taimyr, Tunguzka and Verkhoyansk ranges in Siberia, which, notwithstanding their sub-Arctic position, do not reach the snow-line.

The infantry and rifles are armed with small-bore magazine rifles, and the active artillery have steel breech-loaders with extreme ranges of 4150 to 4700 yds.

No less than 96% of the world's supply of platinum comes from the Urals; but the total output only ranges between 10,000 and 16,000 lb annually.

The whole province is traversed in a south-westerly and north-easterly direction by the Nan-shan ranges.

This plateau, however, is not a plain, but contains many buttes and mesas and isolated mountain ranges rising from 1000 to 8000 ft.

Between the ranges lie valleys of about the same width as the bases of the mountains.

Owing to their great height these three ranges receive heavier rainfall than the surrounding country and are feeders to the northern valleys, which constitute the chief agricultural region of the state.

The greater part of the island is occupied by ranges of mountains which form four principal groups.

There are no public buildings of any importance,, and the only places of interest are the bazars, which extend fully a mile in length, and consist of substantially built ranges of shops covered with roofs.

Farmers of the Piedmont Plateau formerly kept large numbers of horses and cattle from April to November in ranges in the Mountain Region, but with the opening of portions of that country to cultivation the business of pasturage declined, except as the cotton plantations demanded an increased supply of mules; there were 25,259 mules in 1850, 110,011 in 1890, 138,786 in 1900, and 181,000 in 1910.

The surface of Minas Geraes is broken by mountain ranges and deeply eroded rivercourses, the latter forming fertile valleys shut in by partly barren uplands, or campos.

The Mantiqueira-Espinhago chain shuts out the streams flowing directly east to the Atlantic, and the boundary ranges on the west shut out the streams that flow into the Tocantins, though their sources are on the actual threshold of the state.

This division is not so clearly marked in the south, especially in the "matta" (forest) regions, where the rainfall ranges from 59 to 65 in.

The surface of the country is uneven, being traversed by the Vindhya ranges, a peak of which near Raysen is upwards of 2500 ft.

The general inclination of the country is towards the north, in which direction most of the streams of the state flow, while others, passing through the Vindhya ranges, flow to the Nerbudda.

This great divide is not always marked by well-defined ranges facing steeply either to the north or south.