Definitions for the word "range" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
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; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
To separate into parts; to sift.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. i.
To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v.
A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v.
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. v.
The step of a ladder; a rung.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. v.
A kitchen grate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. v.
An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. v.
A bolting sieve to sift meal.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
19. v.
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
20. v.
That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
21. v.
Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
22. v.
The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
23. v.
The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
24. v.
Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
25. v.
A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
26. v.
In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
27. v.
See Range of cable, below.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
28. n.
1 a region between limits of variation, esp. Scope of effective operation. B such limits. 2 area relevant to something. 3 a distance attainable by a gun or projectile. B distance between a gun or projectile and its objective. 4 row, series, etc., esp. Of mountains. 5 area with targets for shooting. 6 fireplace with ovens and hotplates for cooking. 7 area over which a thing is distributed. 8 distance that can be covered by a vehicle without refuelling. 9 distance between a camera and the subject to be photographed. 10 large area of open land for grazing or hunting. v. (-ging) 1 reach; lie spread out; extend; be found over a specified district; vary between limits. 2 (usu. In passive or refl.) Line up, arrange. 3 rove, wander. 4 traverse in all directions. [french: related to *rank1]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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