range
Cross references:
1. line
1. range \'ra-nj\ n [ME, row of persons, fr. OF renge, fr. rengier to
range] often attrib 1a1: a series of things in a line : ROW 1a2: a series
of mountains 1a3: one of the north-south rows of a township in a U.S.
public-land survey that are numbered east and west from the principal
meridian of the survey 1b: an aggregate of individuals in one order 1c: a
direction line 2: a cooking stove that has a flat top with plates or racks
to hold utensil s over flames or coils and an oven 3a: a place that may be
ranged over 3b: an open region over which livestock may roam and feed 3c:
the region throughout which a kind of organism or ecological community
naturally lives or occurs 4: the act of ranging about 5a1: the horizontal
distance to which a projectile can be propelled 5a2: the maximum distance
a vehicle can travel without refueling 5b: a place where shooting is
practiced 6a: the space or extent included, covered, or used : SCOPE 6b:
the extent of pitch covered by a melody or lying within the capacity of a
voice or instrument 7a: a sequence, series, or scale between limits 7b:
the limits of a series 7c: the difference between the least and greatest
values of the attribute o r variable of a frequency distribution 8a: the
set of values a function may take on 8b: the class of admissible values of
a variable
2. range vb [ME rangen, fr. MF ranger to set in a row, place, fr. OF
rengier], fr. renc, reng line, place, row - more at RANK 1a: to set in a
row or in the proper order 1b: to place among others in a position or
situation 1c: to assign to a category : CLASSIFY 2a: to rove over or
through 2b: to sail or pass along 3: to arrange (as anchor cable) on deck
4: to graze (livestock) on a range 5: to determine or give the elevation
necessary for (a gun) to propel a pr ojectile to a given distance 1a: to
roam at large or freely 1b: to move over an area so as to explore it 2:
to take a position 3a: to correspond in direction or line : ALIGN 3b: to
extend in a particular direction 4: to have range 5: to change or differ
within limits of an organism 6: to live or occur in or be native to a
region
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