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"RANGERS" is a plural of: ranger. |
Date "RANGERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1610. (references) |
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Military & Defense | The US Army's elite Rapid Deployment Force. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Glasgow Rangers F.C. is a Scottish football club, nicknamed the Gers. With Glasgow Celtic F.C they dominate the Scottish football league as the Old Firm. They play in light blue shirts, white shorts and black socks.Note that "Glasgow Rangers F.C." is a misnomer. Strictly the name of the club is "Rangers Football Club". As in the case of Celtic F.C., the name of the city does not form part of the club's name.
The club play at the 50,411 seater Ibrox Stadium in Edmiston Drive, one of the finest stadiums in Europe. Rangers won the Scottish League championship nine years in a row, from 1989 to 1997.
Founded in 1872 as Argyle.
Famous players at Ibrox include: Alan Morton, David Meiklejohn, RS McColl, Willie Waddell, Jock Shaw, Paul Gascoigne, Terry Butcher, Graeme Souness, Ally McCoist, Mark Hateley, Brian Laudrup, Jim Baxter, Ray Wilkins, Andy Goram and William 'Sandy' Jardine.
European Cup Winners Cup 1 1972.
Scottish League Champions 50 1891, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003.
Scottish Cup Winners 30 1894, 1897, 1898, 1903, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003.
Scottish League Cup Winners 21 1946, 1948, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003.See also: Glasgow
External Link
- Official website
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The Rangers are a US military Special Forces unit. The term 'Ranger' first appeared in 1670 in Church's Rangers, though the WWII reference was taken from Roger's Rangers of 1756, whose Standing Orders are still quoted today. In May 1942 during World War II, the 1st Ranger Battalion was sanctioned and recruited from forces in Northern Ireland and trained in Scotland by the British Commandos. Together with the ensuing 3rd, and 4th Ranger Battalions they served in North Africa and Italy under William O. Darby until the Battle of Cisterna (29 January 1944) when all but a handful of the 1st and 3rd were wiped out or captured.U.S. Army Rangers earned their motto "Rangers Lead The Way" on Omaha Beach in World War II. When General Cota reached the beach he determined the force must move in land or perish. He asked, "What the hell unit is this?" Maj. Mac Schnider replied, "The Rangers." General Cota said: "Rangers lead the way off this beach".
Prior to the 5th Rangers landing on Omaha beach, three Companies of the 2nd Ranger Batt. scaled the 150 foot cliffs of Point Du Hoc, a few miles to the west, to destory a battery of five 155mm guns. Under constant fire during the climb, they found only a small company of Germans on the cliffs and the artillery withdrawn some 500 metres. The guns were later found and destroyed and the Rangers cut and held the main road for two days before being relieved.
See also: Ranger creed
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The Texas Rangers are a Major League Baseball team based in Arlington, Texas, a suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. They are in the Western Division of the American League.
- Founded: 1961 (American League expansion)
- Formerly known as: the Washington Senators, 1961-1971. (Not to be confused with the team that was the Washington Senators prior to 1961, which became the Minnesota Twins.)
- Home ballpark: The Ballpark in Arlington
- Uniform colors: Blue, White, and Scarlet red
- Logo design: A five-pointed star with the word "RANGERS" superimposed on a banner
- Wild Card titles won (0): none
- Division titles won (4): 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999
- American League pennants won (0): none
- World Series championships won (0): none
Franchise history
When the Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1960, Major League Baseball awarded a team to Washington, D.C, giving it the name of the old franchise. The team survived for several years, but eventually moved to Texas for the 1972 season.
Players of note
Baseball Hall of Famers
- Ferguson Jenkins
- Gaylord Perry
- Nolan Ryan
- Ted Williams (former manager; inducted for his playing career with the Boston Red Sox)
Current stars
- Alex Rodriguez
- Rafael Palmeiro
Not to be forgotten
- Jeff Burroughs (AL MVP, 1974)
- Frank Howard
- Jim Sundberg
Retired numbers
- 34 Nolan Ryan
- 42 Jackie Robinson (retired throughout baseball)
External links
Texas Rangers is also the name of a statewide law enforcement agency in the state of Texas in the United States. see Texas Rangers (Law Enforcement)
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Crosswords: RANGERS |
| English words defined with "RANGERS": outfight. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RANGERS": PARK SUPERINTENDENT ♦ supervisory park ranger. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "RANGERS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (combat boots). |
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Screenplays | Power Rangers, the legacy continues (Power Rangers Turbo; writing credit: Brett Born; Shell Danielson) Last thing I heard her say was 'Junior, turn off those power rangers and go to bed (My Wife and Kids; writing credit: Pierre Corneille) It may be called the State Police, State Troopers, Militia, the Rangers or the Highway Patrol (Highway Patrol; writing credit: Richard L. Adams; Ed Adamson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Power Rangers Wild Force (2002) Rangers (2003) Power Rangers Time Force (2001) The Rangers (1974) Lassie's Rescue Rangers (1973) | |
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 | Three hundred Rangers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. , jump from a C-17 aircraft assigned to the 15th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., on Aug. 9, 2001, as the feature activity of a five-day convention. The conventio. |  | Law Enforcement Rangers "checking out" an abandoned campsite. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Big Wood River lava tube illegal dumpingsLaw Enforcement Rangers Suiting upShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Tim Fuller. |  | Ice hockey game between Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers for Stanley Cup, showing Rangers Jackie Gordon, Harry Lumley and Leo Reise. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. helicopters arriving to air lift Vietnamese government Rangers of the 43rd battalion into battle against Viet Cong guerrillas, Saigon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. forest rangers going to measure the snow course in the Sangre de Cristo mountains above Penasco, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rangers going to measure snow on the Sangre de Cristo Mountains above Penasco, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Rangers v Man U" by Graham Dick Commentary: "Rangers versus Man Utd at Ibrox, Wednesday 22nd October." |
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Business | As of 1998, Dana began to supply frames and drive shafts for Ford Rangers built in Argentina and complete chassis assemblies for Volvo in Brazil. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | The police have primary internal security responsibilities, although paramilitary forces, such as the Rangers and the Frontier Constabulary, provide support in areas where law and order problems are acute, such as Karachi and the frontier areas. (references) |
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| "RANGERS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.39% of the time. "RANGERS" is used about 1,233 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 83.39% | 1,028 | 7,221 |
| Noun (plural) | 16.05% | 198 | 21,729 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.57% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,233 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "RANGERS": Army Rangers. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "RANGERS": rangers-celtic, Rangers-leeds. | |
Ending with "RANGERS": ex-rangers, wood-rangers. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
power rangers.com | 294 |
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| Language | Translations for "RANGERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Polici Në Kalë (Ranger). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Rohamosztag (assault squad, assault team, Ranger, shock troops), rohamcsapat (commando), lovas vadászok, lovas csendőrség, Diverziós Alegység (Ranger). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angersray.(various references) | |
Russian | Конная Полиция. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | komandosi. (various references) | |
Swedish | Jägartrupp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "RANGERS": arrangers, bushrangers, estrangers, grangers, strangers. (additional references) | |
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"RANGERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ragers, rangere, rangery, ranglr, rangor, ranterish, regner, Renger, tronagers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RANGERS" (pronounced rā"njerz) |
| 6 | r ā" n j er z | grangers, strangers. |
| 5 | -ā" n j er z | changers, dangers, endangers, exchangers. |
| 4 | -n j er z | conjures, challengers, harbingers, injures, messengers, passengers, scavengers. |
| 3 | -j er z | agers, astrologers, badgers, chargers, dodgers, forgers, hedgers, integers, ledgers, majors, managers, mergers, onagers, packagers, pagers, pillagers, procedures, Rogers, salvagers, soldiers, teenagers, villagers, voyagers, wagers. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: garners. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-n-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: angers, garner, gnarrs, ranger, ranges, sanger, snarer. | |
-2 letters: agers, anger, earns, gears, gnarr, gnars, grans, nares, nears, rages, range, rares, raser, rears, regna, reran, sager, saner, sarge, snare. | |
-3 letters: ager, ages, anes, ares, arse, earn, ears, engs, eras, ergs, erns, errs, gaen, gaes, gane, gars, gear, gens, gnar, gran, nags, near, rage, rags. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-n-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arranges, earrings, grainers, grangers, granters, groaners, regrants, resprang, stranger. | |
+2 letters: arrangers, arresting, engravers, enlargers, estranger, gardeners, granaries, grandeurs, grandsire, merganser, organiser, regainers, renograms, reraising, serrating, strangers, strangler, wranglers. | |
+3 letters: arrogances, bargainers, bushranger, carrageens, disarrange, estrangers, fragrances, garnitures, garrisoned, generators, germanders, gonorrheas, grandsires, grangerism, greensward, gregarines, grenadiers, haranguers, harbingers, margarines, mergansers, orangeries, organisers, organizers, rearousing, rearranges, reassuring, reengraves, registrant, rehearings, rehearsing, rephrasing, rereadings, respraying, restarting, ringmaster, scarpering, strangered, stranglers, transgress, traversing, treasuring, undergrads, warmongers. | |
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