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range
UK /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ US /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
noun 5verb 5name 4
Definitions
noun
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).
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.
3
Selection, array.
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.
4
An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5
An area for military training or equipment testing.
verb
1
To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
2
To rove over or through.
to range the fields
Novv to the copſe thy leſſer ſpaniel take, / Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake; […]
3
To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
4
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.
5
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 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.
name
1
A surname.
2
A place in the United States:
3
A place in the United States:
4
A place in the United States:
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