<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.</li><li>the extent or scope of the operation or action of something: within range of vision.</li><li>the distance to which a projectile is or may be sent by a weapon.</li><li>the distance of the target from the weapon.</li><li>an area equipped with targets for practice in shooting weapons: a rifle range.</li><li>an area used for flight-testing missiles.</li><li>the distance of something to be located from some point of operation, as in sound ranging.</li><li>the distance that can be covered by an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle, carrying a normal load without refueling.</li><li>Statistics: the difference between the largest and smallest values in a statistical distribution.</li><li>a continuous course of masonry of the same height from end to end.</li><li>Music: compass.</li><li>Surveying: the horizontal direction or extension of a survey line established by two or more marked points.</li><li>(in U.S. public-land surveys) one of a series of divisions numbered east or west from the principal meridian of the survey and consisting of a row of townships, each six miles square, that are numbered north or south from a base line.</li><li>Navigation: a line established by markers or lights on shore for the location of soundings.</li><li>a rank, class, or order: in the higher ranges of society.</li><li>a row, line, or series, as of persons or things.</li><li>an act of ranging or moving around, as over an area or region.</li><li>Also called rangeland.</li><li>an area or tract that is or may be ranged over, especially an open region for the grazing of livestock.</li><li>the region over which a population or species is distributed: the range of the Baltimore oriole.</li><li>Mathematics: the set of all values attained by a given function throughout its domain.</li><li>a chain of mountains forming a single system: the Catskill Range.</li><li>a large portable or stationary cooking stove having burners built into the top surface and containing one or more ovens.</li><li>Physics: the maximum distance that a charged particle, as a proton, can penetrate a given medium and still maintain sufficient kinetic energy to produce ionization in the medium.</li><li>Nautical: a large cleat for securing various lines, especially the tacks and sheets of courses.</li><li>a length of anchor cable laid on deck.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) ranged, rang·ing: to draw up or arrange (persons or things) in rows or lines or in a specific position, company, or group: The sergeant ranged the troops in columns of six across.</li><li>to place or arrange systematically; set in order; dispose: The members of the cast were ranged in their proper places on stage.</li><li>to place in a particular class; classify: They ranged themselves with the liberals.</li><li>to make straight, level, or even, as lines of type.</li><li>to pass over or through (an area or region) in all directions, as in exploring or searching: They ranged the entire countryside.</li><li>to pasture (cattle) on a range.</li><li>to direct or train, as a telescope, upon an object.</li><li>to obtain the range of (something aimed at or to be located).</li><li>Nautical: to lay out (an anchor cable) so that the anchor may descend smoothly.</li><li>(used without object) ranged, rang·ing: to vary within certain limits: prices ranging from $5 to $10.</li><li>to have a certain variety of things somehow related: emotions ranging from smugness to despair.</li><li>to move around or through a region in all directions, as people or animals.</li><li>to rove, roam, or wander: The talk ranged over a variety of subjects.</li><li>to stretch out or extend in a line, as things: shabby houses ranged along the road.</li><li>to extend, run, or go in a certain direction: a boundary ranging from east and west.</li><li>to lie or extend in the same line or plane, as one thing with another or others.</li><li>to take up a position in a line or in order.</li><li>to extend, be found, or occur over an area or throughout a period, as an animal or plant.</li><li>to have a specified range, as a gun, missile, etc.</li><li>to find the range, as of something aimed at or to be located.</li><li>Nautical: (of an anchored vessel) to swerve or sheer (often followed by about).</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>