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lay out in a line

the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"

a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"

have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles"

a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range where you can practice"

a variety of different things or activities; "he answered a range of questions"; "he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection"

the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire"

the limits of the values a function can take; "the range of this function is the interval from 0 to 1"

let eat; "range the animals in the prairie"

assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull"

range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state"

lay out in a line

the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"

a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"

have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles"

a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range where you can practice"

a variety of different things or activities; "he answered a range of questions"; "he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection"

the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire"

the limits of the values a function can take; "the range of this function is the interval from 0 to 1"

let eat; "range the animals in the prairie"

assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull"

range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state"

move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next".

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; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

To separate into parts; to sift.

To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.

To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.

To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.

To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.

To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

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

To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

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

The step of a ladder; a rung.

A kitchen grate.

An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.

A bolting sieve to sift meal.

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

That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.

Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.

The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.

The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.

Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.

A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.

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

See Range of cable, below.

To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; - usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.

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; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

To separate into parts; to sift.

To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.

To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.

To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.

To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.

To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

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

To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

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

The step of a ladder; a rung.

A kitchen grate.

An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.

A bolting sieve to sift meal.

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

That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.

Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.

The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.

The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.

Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.

A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.

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

To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; - usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.

See of cable, below.

A kitchen grate.

A rank; a row; a class or order; things in a line; compass or extent of excursion, or space or room for it; compass taken in; an extended kitchen apparatus for cooking; a piece of wood fixed to the inside of a ship to belay the ropes; the distance to which a shot can be projected or thrown from a gun; the line a shot describes to the point where it lodges; a bolting-sieve to sift meal.

To set or place in a row or line; to dispose in proper order; to pass over, or from one point to another; to rove at large; to lie in a particular direction; to travel about without restraint or direction; to separate the flower from the bran, as to range through a sieve.

A line or row; a chain; as, a range of mountains; line of direction; as, the big tree in range with my window; entire space or time covered; as, the whole range of history; a great tract of land over which cattle graze; the entire region in which an animal or plant lives; as, the geographical range of certain birds; scope or extent; as, a range of ideas; carrying power, or reach; as, the range of a voice; distance to which a shot, etc., can be sent; place for shooting at a mark; a large cooking stove.

To set or arrange in a row; to take sides with; as, to range oneself with a political party; place in proper order; classify; rove over; as, cattle range the plains.

To wander; roam; to go over or through a place in order to explore it; to lie in the same direction; to go; as, the bullet ranged wide of the mark; to be placed in order; as, they range in height from four to six feet.

To rank or set in a row: to place in proper order: to rove or pass over: to sail in a direction parallel to.

To be placed in order: to lie in a particular direction: to rove at large: to sail or pass near.

A row or rank: a class or order. a wandering: room for passing to and fro: space occupied by anything moving: capacity of mind: extent of acquirements: the horizontal distance to which a shot is carried: the long cooking-stove of a kitchen: (B.) a chimney-rack.

A row; order; room for roving or traversing; extent; cooking-stove.

To be placed in order; rove.

To place in a row, or in order; rove through.

To pass through, by, or over; wander along.

To arrange; array.

To classify; rank.

To lie in the same direction; have equal rank followed by with.

The area over which anything moves; a tract of grazing land; reach, as of voice or shot.

A line or row; class or series.

A cooking stove.

A row; a class; excursion; space or room for excursion; extent of excursion or of discourse; power; a kitchen-grate or cooking apparatus; the horizontal distance to which a projectile is carried. See Rank.

To set in a row; to dispose in proper order; to rove over; to sail along.

To rove at large; to be placed in order; to lie in a particular direction; to sail or pass near.

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n. A rank ; a row ; a series of things set in a line ; - the horizontal length of a block or group of buildings ; - an order ; division ; class ;--a wide kitchen apparatus for roasting, boiling, &c., with an oven on one side, and a boiler on the other, all heated from a small central fire ; a wandering or roving; a ramble ;-space or room for exercise or play; -extent or variety of personal knowledge or mental acquirement ; the whole field or compass of truth ascertained or ascertainable in science, philosophy, religion, art, &c.; - mental scope ; intellectual grasp: -the step of a ladder ; a rung ;-a bolting sieve to sift meal ;-the length of a cable needing to be paid out that the anchor may find bottom ; - the horizontal distance to which a projectile can be carried ;-a tract or piece of land in which cattle may graze and pasture.