Range

/ˈɹeɪ̯nd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
3. Selection, array.
4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5. An area for military training or equipment testing.
6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
7. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
8. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.

Example Sentences

Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde.

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.

We sell a wide range of cars.

But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

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.

This missile's range is 500 kilometres.

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• ranges
• ranging
• ranged

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