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/ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
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ɹeɪndʒ
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A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
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Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde.
There was juſt ſuch another Innocent as this, in my Fathers Family : He did the Courſe Work in the Kitchin, and was bid at his firſt Coming to take off the Range, and let down the Cynders before he went to Bed.
Selection, array.
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We sell a wide range of cars.
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But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
An area for practicing shooting at targets.
An area for military training or equipment testing.
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The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
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We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
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This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
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This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.
An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
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There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions
The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
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As to acquir’d habits and abilities in Learning, his Writings having given the World ſufficient account of them, there remains onely to obſerve, that the range and compaſs of his knowledge fill’d the whole Circle of the Arts, and reach’d thoſe ſeverals which ſingle do exact an entire man unto themſelves, and full age.
For we may further obſerve that men of the greateſt abilities are moſt fired with ambition : and that, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the leaſt actuated by it ; whether it be that a man’s ſenſe of his own incapacities makes him deſpair of coming at fame, or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereſt or convenience, or that Providence, in the very frame of his ſoul, would not ſubject him to ſuch a paſſion as would be uſeleſs to the world, and a torment to himſelf.
Far as Creation’s ample range extends, / The ſcale of Senſual, Mental pow’rs aſcends : / Mark how it mounts, to Man’s imperial race, / From the green myriads in the peopled graſs !
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.
The defensive area that a player can cover.
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Jones has good range for a big man.
The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
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The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
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.
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
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The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.
The step of a ladder; a rung.
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the first range of that ladder
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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, "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take a range all the world over.
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 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 range as an actor.
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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
Novv to the copſe thy leſſer ſpaniel take, / Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake; […]
To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
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The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
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At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
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In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
Uso- intransitivo
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The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
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The police seized 12,000 files containing information on a wide range of organisations and individuals. The ADL claimed to be only monitoring ‘hate groups’, and denied passing information to Israel or South Africa. But the files ranged over Arab-American community organisations, trade unions, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, Anti-Apartheid, Women in Black and the International Jewish Peace Union. Only a relative handful of files dealt with the far right.
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
The 2025 timetable would feature two trains per hour, alternately routed via Kirkcaldy (with 11 intermediate stops) and Dunfermline (14 stops), with journey times ranging between 65 and 81 minutes.
To classify.
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to range plants and animals in genera and species
The coins are ranged into nine classes.
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All requirements could be ranged into the classes.
To form a line or a row.
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The front of a house ranges with the street.
The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
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And range with humble livers in content.
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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Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
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Were this dependence of the body and mind more studied, and its effects collected and ranged into proper order; no doubt, we would be able to form a better judgment of it, and see further into the good purposes to which it serves;
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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It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
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The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
To determine the range to a target.
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To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
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to range the coast
Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
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Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.
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an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
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a piano has a greater range than the human voice
the ambit of municipal legislation
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within the compass of this article
within the scope of an investigation
outside the reach of the law
in the political orbit of a world power
the limits within which something can be effective
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range of motion
he was beyond the reach of their fire
a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
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they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring
he dreamed of a home on the range
a series of hills or mountains
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the valley was between two ranges of hills
the plains lay just beyond the mountain range
a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds
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the army maintains a missile range in the desert
any good golf club will have a range where you can practice
a variety of different things or activities
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he answered a range of questions
he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection
(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
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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
the limit of capability
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within the compass of education
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
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dinner was already on the stove
Verbo
change or be different within limits
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Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion
Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent
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The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals
My students range from very bright to dull
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
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The gypsies roamed the woods
roving vagabonds
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the wandering Jew
The cattle roam across the prairie
the laborers drift from one town to the next
They rolled from town to town
have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
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This gun ranges over two miles
range or extend over; occupy a certain area
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The plants straddle the entire state
lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
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lay out the clothes
lay out the arguments
feed as in a meadow or pasture
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the herd was grazing
let eat
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range the animals in the prairie
assign a rank or rating to
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how would you rank these students?
The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide