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See also: Range, rangé, rangë, ränge, and Ränge

English

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Etymology

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    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.

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    range (plural ranges)

    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.
      • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎[1]:
        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.
      • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
        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.
    4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
    5. An area for military training or equipment testing.
      Synonyms: base, training area, training ground
    6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
      Synonyms: distance, radius
      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.
    7. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
      This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
    8. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
      This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.
    9. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
    10. The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
      • 1661, John Fell, The Life of The most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr H. Hammond, 2nd edition, London: J. Flesher, published 1662, page 99:
        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.
      • 1711 December 22, Joseph Addison, “The Spectator”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, volume III, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1721, page 255:
        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.
      • 1733–34, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, London: J. and P. Knapton, published 1748, epistle I, lines 207–210, page 29:
        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 !
    11. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
      Antonym: domain
    12. (statistics) 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.
    13. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
      Jones has good range for a big man.
    14. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
      Synonym: compass
    15. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
    16. (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
      std::for_each  calls the given function on each value in the input range.
    17. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
      • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
        The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.
    18. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
    19. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
    20. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
      • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
        , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
        He may take a range all the world over.
    21. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
    22. 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 range as an actor.

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    Hyponyms of range (area for military training)
    Hyponyms of range (area for practicing shooting)
    Hyponyms of range (distance to something)
    Hyponyms of range (maximum distance of effect)

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    • (values a function can obtain): codomain

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    Verb

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    range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

    1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
    2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
      to range the fields
      • 1713, John Gay, “Rural Sports. A Georgic. Inscribed to Mr. [Alexander] Pope.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Bernard Lintot, […], published 1720, →OCLC, page 21, lines 345–346:
        Novv to the copſe thy leſſer ſpaniel take, / Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake; […]
    3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th–19th c.]
    4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
      • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
        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.
      • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Bag”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 76:
        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.
    5. (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
      Synonym: run
      The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
      • 2002, Charlie Pottins, “How ADL got caught in Apartheid spy case”, in Jewish Socialist, number 46:
        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.
      • 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
        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.
      • 2023 November 1, Robert Drysdale, “Leven is nearly back on track...”, in RAIL, number 995, page 58:
        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.
    6. (transitive) To classify.
      to range plants and animals in genera and species
      • 1785, William Coxe, Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, page 129:
        The coins are ranged into nine classes.
      • 2013, Hubert Kals, Fred van Houten, Integration of Process Knowledge into Design Support, page 378:
        All requirements could be ranged into the classes.
    7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
      The front of a house ranges with the street.
    8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
    9. (transitive) 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.
    10. (transitive) 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.
      • 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
        It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
    11. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
      The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
    12. (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
    13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
      to range the coast
    14. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
      • 2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, →ISBN, page 250:
        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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    Estonian

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    Etymology

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    Coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.

    Adjective

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    range (genitive range, partitive ranget, comparative rangem, superlative kõige rangem)

    1. strict

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    Declension of range (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
    singular plural
    nominative range ranged
    accusative nom.
    gen. range
    genitive rangete
    partitive ranget rangeid
    illative rangesse rangetesse
    rangeisse
    inessive ranges rangetes
    rangeis
    elative rangest rangetest
    rangeist
    allative rangele rangetele
    rangeile
    adessive rangel rangetel
    rangeil
    ablative rangelt rangetelt
    rangeilt
    translative rangeks rangeteks
    rangeiks
    terminative rangeni rangeteni
    essive rangena rangetena
    abessive rangeta rangeteta
    comitative rangega rangetega

    Finnish

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from English range.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈrɑŋːe/, [ˈrɑ̝ŋːe̞]
    • IPA(key): /ˈrei̯ntsi/, [ˈre̞i̯n.ts̠i]
    • Rhymes: -ɑŋːe, -eintsi
    • Syllabification(key): ran‧ge
    • Hyphenation(key): ran‧ge

    Noun

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    range

    1. (golf) range, shooting range (place to practice shooting)
      Synonyms: harjoittelualue, harjoitusalue

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    • The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used when talking about location; for example, "at the range" is rangella.
    • In writing, inflected after pronunciation 1:
    Inflection of range (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
    nominative range ranget
    genitive rangen rangejen
    partitive rangea rangeja
    illative rangeen rangeihin
    singular plural
    nominative range ranget
    accusative nom. range ranget
    gen. rangen
    genitive rangen rangejen
    rangein rare
    partitive rangea rangeja
    inessive rangessa rangeissa
    elative rangesta rangeista
    illative rangeen rangeihin
    adessive rangella rangeilla
    ablative rangelta rangeilta
    allative rangelle rangeille
    essive rangena rangeina
    translative rangeksi rangeiksi
    abessive rangetta rangeitta
    instructive — rangein
    comitative See the possessive forms below.
    Possessive forms of range (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
    first-person singular possessor
    singular plural
    nominative rangeni rangeni
    accusative nom. rangeni rangeni
    gen. rangeni
    genitive rangeni rangejeni
    rangeini rare
    partitive rangeani rangejani
    inessive rangessani rangeissani
    elative rangestani rangeistani
    illative rangeeni rangeihini
    adessive rangellani rangeillani
    ablative rangeltani rangeiltani
    allative rangelleni rangeilleni
    essive rangenani rangeinani
    translative rangekseni rangeikseni
    abessive rangettani rangeittani
    instructive — —
    comitative — rangeineni
    second-person singular possessor
    singular plural
    nominative rangesi rangesi
    accusative nom. rangesi rangesi
    gen. rangesi
    genitive rangesi rangejesi
    rangeisi rare
    partitive rangeasi rangejasi
    inessive rangessasi rangeissasi
    elative rangestasi rangeistasi
    illative rangeesi rangeihisi
    adessive rangellasi rangeillasi
    ablative rangeltasi rangeiltasi
    allative rangellesi rangeillesi
    essive rangenasi rangeinasi
    translative rangeksesi rangeiksesi
    abessive rangettasi rangeittasi
    instructive — —
    comitative — rangeinesi
    first-person plural possessor
    singular plural
    nominative rangemme rangemme
    accusative nom. rangemme rangemme
    gen. rangemme
    genitive rangemme rangejemme
    rangeimme rare
    partitive rangeamme rangejamme
    inessive rangessamme rangeissamme
    elative rangestamme rangeistamme
    illative rangeemme rangeihimme
    adessive rangellamme rangeillamme
    ablative rangeltamme rangeiltamme
    allative rangellemme rangeillemme
    essive rangenamme rangeinamme
    translative rangeksemme rangeiksemme
    abessive rangettamme rangeittamme
    instructive — —
    comitative — rangeinemme
    second-person plural possessor
    singular plural
    nominative rangenne rangenne
    accusative nom. rangenne rangenne
    gen. rangenne
    genitive rangenne rangejenne
    rangeinne rare
    partitive rangeanne rangejanne
    inessive rangessanne rangeissanne
    elative rangestanne rangeistanne
    illative rangeenne rangeihinne
    adessive rangellanne rangeillanne
    ablative rangeltanne rangeiltanne
    allative rangellenne rangeillenne
    essive rangenanne rangeinanne
    translative rangeksenne rangeiksenne
    abessive rangettanne rangeittanne
    instructive — —
    comitative — rangeinenne
    third-person possessor
    singular plural
    nominative rangensa rangensa
    accusative nom. rangensa rangensa
    gen. rangensa
    genitive rangensa rangejensa
    rangeinsa rare
    partitive rangeaan
    rangeansa     		rangejaan
    rangejansa
    inessive rangessaan
    rangessansa     		rangeissaan
    rangeissansa
    elative rangestaan
    rangestansa     		rangeistaan
    rangeistansa
    illative rangeensa rangeihinsa
    adessive rangellaan
    rangellansa     		rangeillaan
    rangeillansa
    ablative rangeltaan
    rangeltansa     		rangeiltaan
    rangeiltansa
    allative rangelleen
    rangellensa     		rangeilleen
    rangeillensa
    essive rangenaan
    rangenansa     		rangeinaan
    rangeinansa
    translative rangekseen
    rangeksensa     		rangeikseen
    rangeiksensa
    abessive rangettaan
    rangettansa     		rangeittaan
    rangeittansa
    instructive — —
    comitative — rangeineen
    rangeinensa

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    range

    1. inflection of ranger:
      1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
      2. second-person singular imperative

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    Etymology

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    From the adjective rang and vrang.

    Noun

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    range f (definite singular ranga, indefinite plural ranger, definite plural rangene)

    1. the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out
      Antonym: rette
    2. the trachea, due to it being the wrong pipe, as opposed to the oesophagus, when eating

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    range (present tense rangar, past tense ranga, past participle ranga, passive infinitive rangast, present participle rangande, imperative range/rang)

    1. (transitive) to turn inside-out (e.g. a piece of clothing)

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    Adjective

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    range

    1. definite singular of rang
    2. plural of rang

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    range

    1. inflection of ranger:
      1. third-person singular present indicative
      2. second-person singular imperative
    2. inflection of rangir:
      1. third-person singular present indicative
      2. second-person singular imperative
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