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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   Selection, array.

   “We sell a wide range of cars.”

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   An area for practicing shooting at targets.

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   An area for military training or equipment testing.

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.

   “One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.”

7. Meaning 7 · noun

   Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).

   “This missile's range is 500 kilometres.”

8. Meaning 8 · noun

   An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.

9. Meaning 9 · noun

   Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.

10. Meaning 10 · noun

    The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.

11. Meaning 11 · noun

    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.

12. Meaning 12 · noun

    The defensive area that a player can cover.

    “Jones has good range for a big man.”

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.

14. Meaning 14 · noun

    The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.

15. Meaning 15 · noun

    A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.

    “std::for_each  calls the given function on each value in the input range.”

16. Meaning 16 · noun

    An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

17. Meaning 17 · noun

    The step of a ladder; a rung.

18. Meaning 18 · noun

    A bolting sieve to sift meal.

19. Meaning 19 · noun

    A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

20. Meaning 20 · noun

    In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.

21. Meaning 21 · noun

    The scope of something, the extent that something covers or includes.

22. Meaning 22 · noun

    The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

    “By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his acting range.”

23. Meaning 23 · verb

    To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.

24. Meaning 24 · verb

    To rove over or through.

    “to range the fields”

25. Meaning 25 · verb

    To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.

26. Meaning 26 · verb

    To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.

27. Meaning 27 · verb

    (followed by over) 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.”

28. Meaning 28 · verb

    To classify.

    “to range plants and animals in genera and species”

29. Meaning 29 · verb

    To form a line or a row.

    “The front of a house ranges with the street.”

30. Meaning 30 · verb

    To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

31. Meaning 31 · verb

    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.

32. Meaning 32 · verb

    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.

33. Meaning 33 · verb

    To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.

    “The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.”

34. Meaning 34 · verb

    To separate into parts; to sift.

35. Meaning 35 · verb

    To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.

    “to range the coast”

36. Meaning 36 · verb

    Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

How this word is used

• General “We sell a wide range of cars.”
• General “One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.”
• General “This missile's range is 500 kilometres.”
• General “Jones has good range for a big man.”
• General “std::for_each  calls the given function on each value in the input range.”
• General “By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his acting range.”
• General “to range the fields”
• General “The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.”
• General “to range plants and animals in genera and species”
• General “The front of a house ranges with the street.”
• General “The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.”
• General “to range the coast”

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