Word Finder - ranging

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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.

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Act of one who ranges.

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A back-and-forth movement

He'd spoken to his sisters in depth and learned quickly just how different she was, their tales ranging from those that ought to anger him to those that amused him.

The Neolithic stratum varies very much in depth, ranging from nearly 20 ft.

The lake is saline and everywhere very shallow, its mean depth ranging from 3 to 5 ft.

It yields the most valuable of all cottons, the hairs being long, fine and silky, and ranging in length from to 22 in.

Steve 's address covered a wide spectrum ranging from the events of September 11th to the virtues of the internet.

There is something for everyone in this city, ranging from the free zoo parks to theater and opera events and nightlife.

Five hefty men, each well-armed and carrying weapons ranging from swords to maces, surrounded Sami.

The Didelphyidae are almost exclusively Central and South American, only one or two species ranging into North America.

With all the majesty and stately elaboration and musical rhythm of Milton's finest prose, Taylor's styleis relieved and brightened by an astonishing variety of felicitous illustrations, ranging from the most homely and terse to the most dignified and elaborate.

Again, the classification of an economic bibliography at once shows how varied has been the character of economic investigation, ranging from the most abstract speculation on the one hand to almost technical studies of particular trades on the other.

Genus includes several hundred extinct species ranging from the Silurian to the Tertiary.

The intervening kettles contain leads with silver contents ranging from above market to below cupelling lead.

Working with two different specimens, he found that the hysteresis loss in ergs per cubic centimetre (W) was fairly represented by o 00125B 1 6 and o o0101B 1 ' 6 respectively, the maximum induction ranging from about 300 to 3000.

This might be anything, ranging from a mounted needle to a sharpened pencil.

Ranging from 1 to 16 km, from gentle strolls to more strenuous hikes there are suitable walks for all age groups.

The menu offers a variety of dishes ranging from seafood specialties to escargot.

She gave him a sour look and kicked the horse into a lope, ranging out ahead of him.

The dockyard, chiefly used for naval repairs, covers about 60 acres, and consists of three basins and large docks, the depth of water in the basins ranging down to 26 ft.

The lyces also take boardersthe cost of boarding ranging from f22 to f52 a year.

Among these are to be found a singularly large number of both active and inactive volcanoes, including the well-known Salak and Gede in the north, and bunched together at the eastern end the Chikorai, Papandayan, Wayang, Malabar, Guntur, &c., ranging from 6000 to 10,000 ft.

This fleet of cable ships now numbers over forty, ranging in size from vessels of 300 tons to 10,000 tons carrying capacity.

The age of this building is very uncertain; it has been assigned to dates ranging from the 1st to the 4th century A.D.

The specifications for bull-headed rails issued by the British Engineering Standards Committee in 1904 provided for a carbon-content ranging from 0-35 to 0-50%, with a phosphorus maximum of 0.075%.

Wills found that the suceptibility was constant in fields ranging from 4200 to 15,000.

Diamonds were discovered in Minas Geraes, near the town now called Diamantina, during the first half of the 18th century, the dates given ranging from 1725 to 1746, but the productiveness of the district has greatly decreased.

This decreases as r increases; its value ranging from na/A to al(nA).

The effects due to each of these rings are equal in amplitude and of phase ranging uniformly over half a complete period.

Dropsical liquids are usually pale yellow or greenish, limpid, with a saltish taste and alkaline reaction, and a specific gravity ranging from 1005 to 1024.

For melting the leadless glasses, open, bowl-shaped crucibles are used, ranging from 12 to 40 in.

The dull green was followed successively by amber, white opal, blue opal, straw opal, sea-green, horn colour and various pale tints of soda-lime glass, ranging from yellow to blue.

In any large collection of fragments it would be easy to find eight or ten varieties of opaque blue, ranging from lapis lazuli to turquoise or to lavender and six or seven of opaque green.

The Peruvian chinchilla (C, brevicaudata) is larger, with relatively shorter ears and tail; while still larger species constitute the genus Lagidium, ranging from the Andes to Patagonia, and distinguished by having four in place of five front-toes, more pointed ears, and a somewhat differently formed skull.

Each gild numbered various classes of members, ranging from beginners, or Schiller (corresponding to trade-apprentices), and Schulfreunde (who were equivalent to Gesellen or journeymen), to Meister, a Meister being a poet who was not merely able to write new verses to existing melodies but had himself invented a new melody.

Armagnac is a region of hills ranging to a height of 1000 ft., watered by the river Gers and other rivers which descend fanwise from the plateau of Lannemezan.

Most of the material termed " sand " in such analyses consists of particles ranging in diameter from .5 to.

Tobacco is cultivated in localities scattered over almost the whole world, ranging as far north as Quebec, Stockholm and the southern shores of Lake Baikal in one hemisphere, and as far south as Chile, the Cape of Good Hope and Victoria in the other.

The mean annual rainfall is about 50 in., ranging from 47.4 in.

There are many fine frescoes in the interior ranging from c. 1300 (knights kneeling before the Virgin) to the 15th century, including Pisanello's beautiful painting of St George (mentioned below).

Let us now collect specimens of the evidence for different varieties of cosmogony, ranging from those of the Red Indian tribes to that of the people of Israel.

Enygrus, ranging from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands.

As garden plants the Phyllocacti are amongst the most ornamental of the whole family, being of easy culture, free blooming and remarkably showy, the colour of the flowers ranging from rich crimson, through rosepink to creamy white.

Apollodorus, an Athenian who flourished in the middle of the and century B.C., wrote a metrical chronicle of events, ranging from the supposed period of the fall of Troy to his own day.

It consists of a cylindrical tube of a capacity ranging from 10 to 50 cc., provided at the upper end with a thick-walled capillary bent as shown on the left of the figure.

The state school fund, ranging from about $150,000 to $160,00o a year, is apportioned among the school districts, according to the number of teachers employed, and is used exclusively for teachers' salaries and the supplying of free text-books.

The words douze pairs were anglicized in a variety of forms ranging from douzepers to dosepers.

The average annual snowfall for the state is about 5 in., ranging from 19 in.

Vessels of the deepest draught can enter into the Victoria basin, the depth of water at low tide ranging from 24 to 36 ft.

Parallel to this shrinkage was the decrease in ranging sheep (82.0% from 1850-1900; 34.2% from 1890-1900), and cattle, once numerous in the hill counties of the west, and in the Connecticut Valley; Boston, then ranking after London as the second wool market of the world, and being at one time the chief packing centre of the country.

Ammonia is also present, but in very varying amounts, ranging from 135 to 0 I parts (calculated as carbonate) in a million parts of air.

Reedbuck, or rietbok (Cervicapra), are foxy-red antelopes ranging in size from a fallow-deer to a roe, with thick bushy tails, forwardly curving black horns, and a bare patch of glandular skin behind each ear.