Meaning of range | Babel Free

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1. A surname.
2. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc
3. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
4. Scope, reach, range.
5. A place in the United States:
6. An unincorporated community in Conecuh County, Alabama.
7. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates)
8. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
9. in range, Naut. (of two or more objects observed from a vessel) located one directly behind the other.
10. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Madison County, Ohio.
11. Selection, array
12. Selection, array.
13. A number or grouping of things in the same category or within specified limits: offers a range of financial services; jobs at different pay ranges.
14. An unincorporated community in the towns of Apple River and Beaver, Polk County, Wisconsin.
15. An area for practicing shooting at targets
16. Extent of perception, knowledge, experience, or ability: Calculus is simply out of my range.
17. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
18. An area for military training or equipment testing
19. The maximum extent or distance limiting operation, action, or effectiveness, as of a sound, radio signal, instrument, firearm, or aircraft: the limited range of the telescope; out of range of their guns; within hearing range.
20. An area for military training or equipment testing.
21. A place equipped for practice in shooting at targets.
22. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
23. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
24. An extensive area of open land on which livestock wander and graze.
25. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
26. The geographic region in which a plant, animal, or other organism normally lives or grows.
27. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
28. The opportunity or freedom to wander or explore: We had free range of the campus.
29. The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
30. Mathematics The set of all values a given function may take on.
    Mathematics
31. The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
32. A group or series of things extending in a line or row, especially a row or chain of mountains.
33. 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.
34. The defensive area that a player can cover.
35. The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
36. The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
37. A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
38. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
39. The step of a ladder; a rung.
    obsolete
40. A bolting sieve to sift meal.
    UK, dialectal, obsolete
41. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
42. In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
    US, historical
43. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

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Examples

“Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde.”

“There was juſt ſuch another Innocent as this, in my Fathers Family : He did the Courſe Work in the Kitchin, and was bid at his firſt Coming to take off the Range, and let down the Cynders before he went to Bed.”

“We sell a wide range of cars.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“This missile's range is 500 kilometres.”

“This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.”

“There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 !”

“Jones has good range for a big man.”

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

“The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.”

“the first range of that ladder”

“, "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take a range all the world over.”

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

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