range

A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).

• 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.

Selection, array.

• We sell a wide range of cars.

An area for practicing shooting at targets.

An area for military training or equipment testing.

The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.

• We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
• One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.

The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).

• This missile's range is 500 kilometres.

The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.

• This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.

An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.

• There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions

The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.

• Far as Creation’s ample range extends, / The ſcale of Senſual, Mental pow’rs aſcends : / Mark how it mounts, to Man’s imperial race, / From the green myriads in the peopled graſs !

To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.intransitive

To rove over or through.transitive

• to range the fields

To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.intransitiveobsolete

• 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.

To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.transitive

• 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.

Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.intransitive

• The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.

To classify.transitive

• to range plants and animals in genera and species

To form a line or a row.intransitive

• The front of a house ranges with the street.

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

• And range with humble livers in content.

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.transitive

• Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
• Were this dependence of the body and mind more studied, and its effects collected and ranged into proper order; no doubt, we would be able to form a better judgment of it, and see further into the good purposes to which it serves;

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

• It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.