Synonyms: 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
Similar words: facility, installation
Definition: a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Usage: the assembly plant is an enormous facility
Synonyms: stove, cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, range
Definition: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
Usage: dinner was already on the stove
Similar words: kitchen appliance
Definition: a home appliance used in preparing food
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: extent
Definition: the distance or area or volume over which something extends
Usage: the vast extent of the desert; an orchard of considerable extent
Synonyms: range, reach, compass, grasp
Definition: the limit of capability
Usage: within the compass of education
Similar words: capability, capableness, potentiality
Definition: an aptitude that may be developed
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: set
Definition: (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
Usage: the set of prime numbers is infinite
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: smorgasbord, salmagundi, assortment, potpourri, variety, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley
Definition: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Usage: a great assortment of cars was on display; he had a variety of disorders; a veritable smorgasbord of religions
Definition: the limits within which something can be effective
Usage: range of motion; he was beyond the reach of their fire
Similar words: limit
Definition: as far as something can go
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel, parcel of land
Definition: an extended area of land
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: geological formation, formation
Definition: (geology) the geological features of the earth
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: evaluate, judge, pass judgment
Definition: form a critical opinion of
Usage: I cannot judge some works of modern art; How do you evaluate this grant proposal? We shouldn't pass judgment on other people
Synonyms: range
Definition: let eat
Usage: range the animals in the prairie
Definition: give food to
Usage: Feed the starving children in India; don't give the child this tough meat
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: set up, arrange
Definition: put into a proper or systematic order
Usage: arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order
Synonyms: range, crop, browse, pasture, graze
Definition: feed as in a meadow or pasture
Usage: the herd was grazing
Definition: take in food; used of animals only
Usage: This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat; What do whales eat?
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: go, locomote, travel, move
Definition: change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
Usage: How fast does your new car go?; We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus; The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect; The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell; news travelled fast
Definition: range or extend over; occupy a certain area
Usage: The plants straddle the entire state
Similar words: comprise, make up, be, represent, constitute
Definition: form or compose
Usage: This money is my only income; The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance; These constitute my entire belonging; The children made up the chorus; This sum represents my entire income for a year; These few men comprise his entire army
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
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer