range
//ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- ranges
- present (v1)
- range
- past (v2)
- ranged
- past participle (v3)
- ranged
- present participle
- ranging
- 3rd person singular
- ranges
Definitions
1.A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
2.A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
3.Selection, array.
- We sell a wide range of cars.
4.An area for practicing shooting at targets.
1.To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
2.To rove over or through.
3.To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- 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.
- 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.
4.Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1098
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).
Doublet of ring.