range
range is a 5-letter English word with 44 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. To separate into parts; to sift.
- noun. To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
- noun. To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
- noun. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
- noun. To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
- intransitive verb. To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
- intransitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- intransitive verb. To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
- intransitive verb. To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
- verb. A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
- verb. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- verb. The step of a ladder; a rung.
- verb. A kitchen grate.
- verb. An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
- verb. A bolting sieve to sift meal.
- verb. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- verb. 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.
- verb. 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.
- verb. The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
- verb. The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
- verb. Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
- verb. A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
- verb. In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
- verb. See Range of cable, below.
- noun. 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"
- noun. a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
"dinner was already on the stove"
- noun. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
"a piano has a greater range than the human voice"
"the ambit of municipal legislation"
- noun. the limit of capability
"within the compass of education"
- noun. (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
"the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers"
- noun. a variety of different things or activities
"he answered a range of questions"
"he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection"
- noun. the limits within which something can be effective
"range of motion"
"he was beyond the reach of their fire"
- noun. a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
"they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring"
"he dreamed of a home on the range"
- noun. a series of hills or mountains
"the valley was between two ranges of hills"
"the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
- verb. assign a rank or rating to
"how would you rank these students?"
"The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
- verb. let eat
"range the animals in the prairie"
- verb. lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
"lay out the clothes"
"lay out the arguments"
- verb. feed as in a meadow or pasture
"the herd was grazing"
- verb. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
"The gypsies roamed the woods"
"roving vagabonds"
- verb. range or extend over; occupy a certain area
"The plants straddle the entire state"
- verb. 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"
- verb. have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
"This gun ranges over two miles"
Synonyms
stove, ambit, compass, orbit, reach, scope, grasp, image, chain, grade, order, place, rank, rate, array, browse, crop, graze, pasture, cast, drift, ramble, roam, roll
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in range:
anger, areng, grane, regna, renga
Common word forms
ranged, ranger, ranges, ranging, rangeless
Words from these letters
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