Main entry: range
Definition: a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds
Usage: the army maintains a missile range in the desert; any good golf club will have a range where you can practice
Main entry: stove, cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, range
Definition: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
Usage: dinner was already on the stove
Main entry: compass, scope, orbit, range, reach, ambit
Definition: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
Usage: a piano has a greater range than the human voice; the ambit of municipal legislation; within the compass of this article; within the scope of an investigation; outside the reach of the law; in the political orbit of a world power
Main entry: range, reach, compass, grasp
Definition: the limit of capability
Usage: within the compass of education
Main entry: image, range, range of a function
Definition: (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
Usage: 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
Main entry: range
Definition: a variety of different things or activities
Usage: he answered a range of questions; he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection
Definition: the limits within which something can be effective
Usage: range of motion; he was beyond the reach of their fire
Main entry: range
Definition: a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
Usage: they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring; he dreamed of a home on the range
Main entry: range, range of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, chain, chain of mountains
Definition: a series of hills or mountains
Usage: the valley was between two ranges of hills; the plains lay just beyond the mountain range
Main entry: place, range, rank, rate, grade, order
Definition: assign a rank or rating to
Usage: how would you rank these students?; The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
Main entry: range
Definition: let eat
Usage: range the animals in the prairie
Main entry: array, range, set out, lay out
Definition: lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
Usage: lay out the clothes; lay out the arguments
Main entry: range, crop, browse, pasture, graze
Definition: feed as in a meadow or pasture
Usage: the herd was grazing
Main entry: tramp, swan, stray, drift, cast, roam, ramble, range, vagabond, wander, roll, rove
Definition: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Usage: 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; They rolled from town to town
Definition: range or extend over; occupy a certain area
Usage: The plants straddle the entire state
Definition: change or be different within limits
Usage: 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
Main entry: range
Definition: have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
Usage: This gun ranges over two miles