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Definition: Range |
RangeNoun1. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "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". 2. The limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire". 3. The limits of the values a function can take; "the range of this function is the interval from 0 to 1". 4. A large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze; "they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring"; "he dreamed of a home on the range". 5. A series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range". 6. A place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range where you can practice". 7. A variety of different things or activities; "he answered a range of questions"; "he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection". 8. The limit of capability; "within the compass of education". 9. A kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove". Verb1. Change or be different within limits; "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". 2. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "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". 3. Have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles". 4. Range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state". 5. Lay out in a line. 6. Feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing". 7. Let eat; "range the animals in the prairie". 8. Assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "range" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
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Computing | Range image. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | 1. The difference between the maximum and minimum of a given set of numbers; in a periodic process it is twice the amplitude, i.e., the wave height. 2. The distance between two objects, usually an observation point and an object under observation. See slant range. 3. A maximum distance attributable to some process, as in visual range or the range of a rocket. 4. An area in and over which rockets are fired for testing, as Atlantic Missile Range.5. = radar range. (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | The geographical and altitudinal limits within which a taxon occurs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The difference between the high and low price of a security during a particular period. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | An intermediate, executive forest charge, part of a division or district, and commonly subdivided into beats. Source: European Union. (references) |
| All land, including forest land, that produces native forage, in contrast to land cultivated for agricultural crops or carrying dense forest. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Math | The possible results of a function or relation. For instance, the range of cosine is [-1,+1]. (references) |
Mathematics | Function:. . . the domain of the function is the collection of all objects which occur as the first member of some elements and the -- is the collection of all objects which occur as the second member of some element. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | 1. The distance between any given point and an object or target. 2. Extent or distance limiting the operation or action of something, such as the range of an aircraft, ship, or gun. 3. The distance which can be covered over a hard surface by a ground vehicle, with its rated payload, using the fuel in its tank and its cans normally carried as part of the ground vehicle equipment. 4. An area reserved and normally equipped for practice in weapons delivery and/or shooting at targets. Also called target range. (references) |
Mining | A. An area in which a mineral-bearing formation crops out; e.g., the iron range and copper range of the Lake Superior region; a mineral belt b. An established or well-defined line or course whose position is known and along which soundings are taken in a hydrographic survey c. Any series of contiguous townships (of the U.S. Public Land Survey system) aligned north and south and numbered consecutively east and west from a principal meridian d. The distribution of a genus, species, or other taxonomic group of organisms through geologic time e.g., the iron range and copper range of the Lake Superior region; a mineral belt f. For a spherical model, the distance at which the model reaches its maximum value, or sill. For the exponential and gaussian models, which approach the sill asymptomatically, it means the "practical" or "effective" range, where the function reaches approximately 95% of the maximum. The nugget model effectively has a sill with a range of zero: thelinear model uses "sill/range" merely to define the slope. (references) |
Occupations | An arrangement of machines used to perform a number of yarn- or cloth-processing operations continuously by feeding material to each unit in succession automatically and without interruption. (references) |
Public Administration | Information sent in a circuit group supervision message (e. g. circuit group blocking) to indicate the range of circuits affected by the action in the message. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | The range of a sample(or a data set)is a measure of the spread or the dispersion of the observations. It is the difference between the largest and the smallest observed value of some quantitative characteristic and is very easy to calculate. Source: European Union. (references) |
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This article covers mathematics. Other uses of the word function include:
- In sociology, social functions are the basis of functionalism.
- In computer science, a function is a subprogram or subroutine, commonly one intended to directly return a value to its caller. See also functional programming.
The concept of function is fundamental in mathematics and the sciences.
Introduction
Intuitively, a function is a way to assign to each value of the argument x a unique value of the function f(x). This could be specified by a formula, a relationship, and/or a rule. This concept is deterministic, always producing the same result or output from the same input. A function may be thought of as a "machine" or "black box" converting valid input into a unique output.
The most familiar kind of function is that where the argument and the function's value are both numbers, and the functional relationship is expressed by a formula, and the value of the function is obtained from the arguments by direct substitution. Consider for example
which assigns to any number x its square.
A straightforward generalization is to allow functions depending not on a single number, but on several. For instance,
which takes two numbers x and y and assigns to them their product, xy.
In the sciences, we often encounter functions that are not given by (known) formulas. Consider for instance the temperature distribution on Earth over time: this is a function which takes location and time as arguments and gives as output the temperature at that location at that time.
We have seen that the intuitive notion of function is not limited to computations using single numbers and not even limited to computations; the mathematical notion of function is still more general and is not limited to situations involving numbers. Rather, a function links a "domain" (set of inputs) to a "codomain" (set of possible outputs) in such a way that to every element of the domain is associated precisely one element of the codomain. Functions are abstractly defined as certain relations, as will be seen below. Because of this generality, functions appear in a wide variety of mathematical contexts, and several mathematical fields are based on the study of functions.The words "function", "mapping", "map" and "transformation" are usually considered synonymous. Functions whose arguments are natural numbers are better known as sequences.
History
As a mathematical term, "'function\'" was coined by Leibniz in 1694, to describe a quantity related to a curve; such as a curve's slope or a specific point of said curve. Functions related to curves are nowaday called differentiable functions and are still the most frequently type of functions encounted by non-mathematicians. For such kind of functions, one can talk about limits and derivatives; both are measurements of the change of output values associated to a change of input values, and they are the basics of calculus.
The word function was later used by Euler during the mid-18th Century to describe an expression or formula involving various arguments; ie: y = F(x).
During the 19th Century, mathematicians started to formalize all the different branches of mathematics. Weierstrass advocated building calculus on arithmetic rather than on geometry, which favoured Euler's definition over Leibniz's (see arithmetization of analysis).
By broadening the definition of functions, mathematicians were then able to study "strange" mathematical objects such as functions which are nowhere differentiable. Those functions, first thought as purely imaginary and called collectively "monsters" as late as the turn of the 20th century, were later found to be important in the modelling of physical phenomena such as Brownian motion.
Towards the end of the 19th century, mathematicians started trying to formalize all of mathematics using set theory and they sought definitions of every mathematical object as a set. It was Dirichlet that gave the modern "formal" definition of function (see #Formal Definition below).
In Dirichlet's definition, a function is a special case of a relation. In most cases of practical interest, however, the differences between the modern definition and Euler's definition are negligible.
This is not a "well-defined" function; because, the element 3, in X, is associated with two elements b and c in Y (Condition 1 is violated). This is a multivalued function.
This is not a "well-defined" function; because, the element 1, in X , is associated with nothing (Condition 2 is violated). This is a partial function.
This is a function, called a discrete function (or rarely piecewise function); of which the range is {a,c,d}. It can be stated explicitly as
Occasionally, all three relations above are called functions. In this case, the function satisfies Conditions (1) and (2) is said to be a "well-defined function" or "total function". In this encyclopedia, the terms "well-defined function", "total function" and "function" are synonymous.
Domains, Codomains, and Ranges
X, the set of input values, is called the domain of f and Y, the set of possible output values, is called the codomain. The range of f is the set of all actual outputs {f(x) : x in the domain}. Beware that sometimes the codomain is wrongly called the range because of a failure to distinguish between possible and actual values.
In computer science, the datatypes of the arguments and return values specify the domain and codomain (respectively) of a subprogram. So the domain and codomain are constraints imposed initially on a function; on the other hand the range has to do with how things turn out in practice.
Graph of a functions
The graph of a function f is the collection of all points(x, f(x)), for all x in set X. In the example of the discrete function, the graph of f is {(1,a),(2,d),(3,c)}. There are theorems formulated or proved most easily in terms of the graph, such as the closed graph theorem.
If X and Y are real lines, then this definition coincides with the familiar sense of graph. Below is the graph of a cubic function:
Note that since a relation on the two sets X and Y is usually formalized as a subset of X×Y, the formal definition of function actually identifies the function f with its graph.
Images and preimages
The image of an element x∈X under f is the output f(x).
The image of a subset A⊂X under f is the subset of Y defined by
- f(A) := {f(x) : x in A}.
Notice that the range of f is the image f(X) of its domain. In our example of discrete function, the image of {2,3} under f is f({2,3})={c,d} and the range of f is {a,c,d}.The preimage (or inverse image) of a set B ⊂ Y under f is the subset of X defined by
In our example of discrete function, the preimage of {a,b} is f −1({a,b})={1}.
- f −1(B) := {x in X : f(x)∈B}.
Note that with this definiton, f -1 becomes a function whose domain is the set of all subsets of Y (also known as the power set of Y) and whose codomain is the power set of X'.
Some consequences that follow immediately from these definitions are:
These are valid for arbitrary subsets A, A1 and A2 of the domain and arbitrary subsets B, B1 and B2 of the codomain. The results relating images and preimages to the algebra of intersection and union work for any number of sets, not just for 2.
- f(A1 ∪ A2) = f(A1) ∪ f(A2).
- f(A1 ∩ A2) ⊆ f(A1) ∩ f(A2).
- f −1(B1 ∪ B2) = f −1(B1) ∪ f −1(B2).
- f −1(B1 ∩ B2) = f −1(B1) ∩ f −1(B2).
- f(f −1(B)) ⊆ B.
- f −1(f(A)) ⊇ A.
Injective, surjective and bijective functions
Several types of functions are very useful, deserve special names:
- injective (one-to-one) functions send different arguments to different values; in other words, if x and y are members of the domain of f, then f(x) = f(y) if and only if x = y. Our example is an injective function.
- surjective (onto) functions have their range equal to their codomain; in other words, if y is any member of the codomain of f, then there exists at least one x such that f(x) = y.
- bijective functions are both injective and surjective; they are often used to show that the sets X and Y are "the same" in some sense.
Examples of functions
(More can be found at List of functions.)
Most commonly used types of mathematical functions involving addition, division, exponents, logarithms, multiplication, polynomials, radicals, rationals, subtraction, and trigonometric expressions. They are sometimes collectively referred as Elementary functions -- but the meaning of this term varies among different branches of mathematics. Example of non-elementary functions are Bessel functions and gamma functions.
- The relation wght between persons in the United States and their weights.
- The relation between nations and their capitals.
- The relation sqr between natural numbers n and their squares n2.
- The relation ln between positive real numbers x and their natural logarithms ln(x). Note that the relation between real numbers and their natural logarithms is not a function because not every real number has a natural logarithm; that is, this relation is not total and is therefore only a partial function.
- The relation dist between points in the plane R2 and their distances from the origin (0,0).
- The relation grav between a point in the punctured plane R2 \\ {(0,0)} and the vector describing the gravitational force that a certain mass at that point would experience from a certain other mass at the origin (0,0).
n-ary function: function of several variables
Functions in applications are often functions of several variables: the values they take depend on a number of different factors. From a mathematical point of view all the variables must be made explicit in order to have a functional relationship - no 'hidden' factors are allowed. Then, again from the mathematical point of view, there is no qualitative difference between functions of one and of several variables. A function of three real variables is just a function that applies to triples of real numbers. The following paragraph says this in more formal language.
If the domain of a function is a subset of the Cartesian product of n sets then the function is called an n-ary function. For example, the relation dist has the domain R × R and is therefore a binary function. In that case dist((x,y)) is simply written as dist(x,y).
Another name applied to some types of functions of several variables is operation. In abstract algebra, operators such as "*" are defined as binary functions; when we write a formula such as x*y in this context, we are implicitly invoking the function *(x,y), but writing it in a convenient infix notation.
An important theoretical paradigm, functional programming, takes the function concept as central. In that setting, the handling of functions of several variables becomes an operational matter, for which the lambda calculus provides the basic syntax. The composition of functions (see under composing functions immediately below) becomes a question of explicit forms of substitution, as used in the substitution rule of calculus. In particular, a formalism called currying can be used to reduce n-ary functions to functions of a single variable.
Composing functions
The functions f: X → Y and g: Y → Z can be composed by first applying f to an argument x and then applying g to the result. Thus one obtains a function g o f: X → Z defined by (g o f)(x) := g(f(x)) for all x in X. As an example, suppose that an airplane's height at time t is given by the function h(t) and that the oxygen concentration at height x is given by the function c(x). Then (c o h)(t) describes the oxygen concentration around the plane at time t.
If Y⊂X then f may compose with itself; this is sometimes denoted f 2. (Do not confuse it with the notation commonly seen in trigonometry.) The functional powers f of n = f n o f = f n+1 for natural n follow immediately. On their heels comes the idea of functional root; given f and n, find a g such that gn=f. (Feynman illustrated practical use of functional roots in one of his anecdotal books. <which?> Tasked with building an analogue arctan computer and finding its parts overstressed, he instead designed a machine for a functional root <fifth?> of arctan and chained enough copies to make the arctan machine.)
Inverse function
If a function f:X→Y is bijective then preimages of any element y in the codomain Y is a singleton. A function taking y∈Y to its preimage f−1(y) is a well-defined function called the inverse of f and is denoted by f−1.An example of an inverse function, for f(x) = x2, is f(x)−1 = √x. Likewise, the inverse of 2x is x/2. The inverse function is the function that "undoes" its original. See also inverse image.
Pointwise operations
If f: X → R and g: X → R are functions with common domain X and codomain is a ring R, then one can define the sum function f + g: X → R and the product function f × g: X → R as follows:
for all x in X.
- (f + g)(x) := f(x) + g(x);
- (f × g)(x) := f(x) × g(x);
This turns the set of all such functions into a ring. The binary operations in that ring have as domain ordered pairs of functions, and as codomain functions. This is an example of climbing up in abstraction, to functions of more complex types.
By taking some other algebraic structure A in the place of R, we can turn the set of all functions from X to A into an algebraic structure of the same type in an analogous way.
Computable and non-computable functions
The number of computable functions from integers to integers is countable, because number of possible algorithms is. The number of all functions from integers to integers is higher: the same as the cardinality of the real numbers. This argument shows that there are functions from integers to integers that are not computable. For examples of noncomputable functions, see the articles on the halting problem and Rice's theorem.
References
- Visual Calculus by Lawrence S. Husch, University of Tennessee (2001)
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A function range in mathematics is a description of the possible values produced by a function.Given a function f: A → B, the set f(A) is called the range of f. The range is not to be confused with the codomain B. Generally the range is only a subset of the codomain.
Example
Let the function f be a function on the real numbers:
defined by
- f: R → R
The codomain of f is R, but clearly f(x) never takes negative values, and thus the range is in fact the set R+ -- non-negative reals, ie the interval [0,∞):
- f: x → x2
- 0 ≤ f(x) < ∞
See also: Function codomain, Function domain, Injective, Surjective, Bijective
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A mountain range (also cordillera or sierra) is a grouping of mountains (often elongated) usually caused by tectonic plate interactions. The Himalayas in Asia are the result of the India plate hitting the asian plate.Singular mountains are often the result of volcanic processes but in some instances, such as the Hawaiian Islands these processes can result in a chain of mountains that might be considered a mountain range.
See also: List of mountain ranges, List of mountains
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The range of a vehicle is the distance it may cover without having to be refueled or recharged.The range of a gun or missile is how far it can reach. This is very important because it is quite favorable to be able to hit the enemy while it can not hit you.
In telecommunications as well, range is distance. Some short-range standards are bluetooth and IrDA.
In mathematics, one can find:
A range is a type of major appliance, consisting of several (usually four) gas burners or electric heating elements. It is typically seen on top of an oven.
- The range of a mathematical function is the set of all possible output value of the function. Sometimes the range of a function is defined as the codomain of the function, but this definition is not accepted by most mathematicians.
- The numerical range, or field of value, of a real or complex matrix A is the set: {x*Ax : x is a unit vector}.
In agriculture and geography, range is arid land where cattle are permitted to roam and feed on whatever vegetation might be present.
The range of a musical instrument is the variety of pitch it can play.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| RAE | English | Range azimuth elevation | N/A |
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Synonyms: RangeSynonyms: ambit (n), chain (n), chain of mountains (n), compass (n), cooking stove (n), grasp (n), kitchen range (n), kitchen stove (n), mountain chain (n), mountain range (n), orbit (n), range of mountains (n), reach (n), scope (n), stove (n), array (v), browse (v), cast (v), crop (v), drift (v), grade (v), graze (v), lay out (v), order (v), pasture (v), place (v), ramble (v), rank (v), rate (v), roam (v), rove (v), run (v), set out (v), straddle (v), stray (v), swan (v), tramp (v), vagabond (v), wander (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: domain (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Habitat, range, stamping ground; haunt, hangout; biosphere; environment, ecological niche. |
Arrangement | Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion. |
Class | Kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin. |
Continuity | Rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade. |
Degree | Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort. |
Direction | Line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment, allignment; air line, beeline; straight shoot. |
Distance | Verb: be distant; Adjective: extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go to, get to, stretch away to; range. |
Freedom | Scope, range, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall. |
Furnace | Fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons; grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose; poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog. |
Husbandry | Cage. (prison); hencoop, bird cage, cauf; range, sheepfold,. (inclosure). |
Journey | Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate. |
Space | Noun: space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread. |
Term | Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range. |
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Screenplays | Phased-plasma rifle in the forty watt range. (The Terminator; writing credit: James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, Harlan Ellison) I want an official Red Rider carbine action 200 shot range model air rifle (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, and Jean Shepherd.) I just think all elementary schools should have a firing range. How else will the children learn to defend themselves (S1m0ne; writing credit: Andrew Niccol) Miss Moneypenny, why don't you come over here so I can check your range of acceptable focus (Film School Confidential; writing credit: Douglas Underdahl) And to be played by an actress with such depth and range. (Scream 3; writing credit: Ehren Kruger) | |
Lyrics | Naw, I'm a changed man, look at the range maim (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron) They follow me when I hop in the Range (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) 'til you walked right into range (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer) Love, knowin your name, jump yo' ass in the Range (Livin' It Up; performing artist: Ja Rule) All black tinted up thugged out range (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris) | |
Clever | If the enemy is in range, so are you. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Duel of Tiger Range (1968) Hotel High Range (1968) Homer on the Range (1965) The Standard Range Approach (1957) Riders of the Range (1950) | |
Song Titles | Home On The Range (performing artist: Tokyo Pop soundtrack) | |
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 | Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a procedure to treat cancer. Patients are injected with a photosensitizer which is a light sensitive drug selectively retained by cancer cells. When exposed to laser light, the photosensitizer in the cancer cells produces a toxic reaction which destroys the tumor. This photo shows an argon-ion laser, the first component of the argon pumped-dye laser (630nm red). This argon-ion laser emits blue-green light at 488/514 nm, and is used to excite a dye in the second component, the dye laser head, where the wavelength is changed to 630nm red. Different photosensitizers absorb light at different wavelengths. Some absorb light most efficiently in the blue light region of the spectrum around 400 nanometers(nm) with lesser absorption in the green and red light range. However, red light at 630 nm penetrates deeper into the tumor tissue (3-8 mm) than green or blue light. For this reason, the majority of PDT work has used 630 nm light. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | All woodrat species are quick to occupy, and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC. |
 | Loran stands for LOng RANge navigation, and is a long distance radio-navigation land station that transmits synchronized radio wave pulses. Credit: CDC. |  | These are the Anti-Atlas Mountains, part of the Atlas Mountain range in southern Morocco, Africa. The region contains some of the world's largest and most diverse mineral resources, most of which are still untouched. Credit: NASA. |
 | This desolate landscape is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, on the border between the Coahuila and Nuevo Leon provinces of Mexico. Credit: NASA. |  | Fog rolling over the Chisos Range Scene observed from Station Chisos on Emory Peak. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Fairweather Range, Alaska, from photogrammetric aircraft. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A Northern Gannet, somewhat north of its normal range, tangled in fishing line and drowned. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | View of Koolau Range from offshore Makapu Point. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The Transantarctic Range as seen while flying to South Pole Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "First rose" by Anthony Hall Commentary: "This was my first attempt using camera at close range." | "Misty Mountians 4" by Warwick Kay Commentary: "Mountian range just before it started raining. Any tips on how i could have captured the mist better :)." |
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 | Lap steel guitar using glissandi with a mid range percussion accompaniment. | | Brief excerpt featuring the low and mid range of the piano. |
| A mid range sustained note played on a piano. | | A single mid range electric bass note. |
| A mid range synthesized tone simulating a flute. | | A mid range note played and sustained on a piano. |
| A single note played in the lower-mid range of a harpsichord. | | A mid range trumpet played forte. |
| A note plucked on a harp in the mid range. | | A single synthesized harp tone played in a mid range. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Disraeli | You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. |
Voltaire | Call them, if you please, bookmakers, not authors; range them rather among second-hand dealers than plagiarists. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It was an age in which the human intellect, newly emancipated, had taken a more active and a wider range than for many centuries before |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At this corner is the southern entrance, guarded by this wall, which commands it at the shortest musket range. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Rose of Sharon knelt on the ground out of range of the burning heat, and she had a long spoon in her hand |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Eczema in WAS can range from mild to severe. (references) | |
The abnormalities can range from mild to severe. (references) | ||
Cases of Peyronie's disease range from mild to severe. (references) | ||
Business | This increases the range of final disposal options. (references) | |
The vehicles are branded as Toyota's Signature range. (references) | ||
The preferential rates range from 0 to 5 percent maximum. (references) | ||
Children | Turkmenistan | Pensions usually range between $10 to $30 per month ( 200,000 to 300,000 manats). (references) |
Mexico | Persons With Disabilities Estimates of the number of persons with disabilities range from 2 to 10 million. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | Initiatives range from monthly social aid funds, special education, and transportation assistance, to sending a team to the Special Olympics. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ethiopia | Circulation figures range from 2,000 to 20,000 copies each. (references) |
Ghana | Most stations are independent and air a wide range of viewpoints. (references) | |
Saint Lucia | The two private television stations also cover a wide range of views. (references) | |
Economic History | Morocco | Deadlines range from 30 to 90 days. (references) |
Croatia | Prison terms range from 15 to 90 days. (references) | |
Morocco | Punishments range from fines to jail sentences. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cuba | The authorities utilized a wide range of social controls. (references) |
Russia | Prices were said to range from several hundred to thousands of dollars. (references) | |
Chile | The FASIC continues to be active on the full range of human rights issues. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Canada | The treaty ended a range of special tax breaks and other benefits available under previous arrangements. (references) |
Thailand | The new regulations ease the requirements to establish citizenship by allowing a wider range of evidence, including testimony from references, and empowering local officials to decide cases. (references) | |
Minorities | Greece | Northwestern Greece is home to an indeterminate number--estimates range widely, from under 10,000 to 50,000 or more--of citizens who speak a Slavic dialect at home, particularly in Florina province. (references) |
Political Economy | CHILE | The Bank's target range for inflation is 2-4 percent. (references) |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Most Dominican tariffs now range from 3 to 20 percent. (references) | |
Ukraine | Nevertheless a wide range of opinion is available in newspapers and periodicals. (references) | |
Political Rights | Algeria | The more than 30 existing political parties represent a wide spectrum of viewpoints and engage in activities that range from holding rallies to issuing communiques. (references) |
Czech Republic | The 1991 Lustration (vetting) Law, continued to bar many former Communist Party officials, members of the People's Militia and suspected secret police collaborators from holding a wide range of elective and appointive offices, including senior appointive positions in the Government state-owned companies, academia, and the media. (references) | |
Trade | Ghana | These standards cover a wide range of products. (references) |
Travel | Cape Verde | Room rates range from CVE 3000 to 7000. (references) |
Chad | Temperatures range from 15 degrees to 45 degrees Celsius. (references) | |
Chad | Installation costs usually range from about USD 300 to USD 2,000. (references) | |
Women | Kazakhstan | The punishment for rape can range from 3 to 15 years imprisonment. (references) |
Bhutan | In cases of rape involving minors, sentences range from 5 to 17 years. (references) | |
China | The structure of the social system also prevents women from having a full range of options. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Romania | Paid holidays range from 18 to 24 days annually, depending on the employee's length of service. (references) |
Malaysia | These workers occupy a wide range of menial jobs in the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors. (references) | |
Togo | Official monthly minimum wages range from approximately $20 to $33 (14,700 to 23,100 CFA francs) per month. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Judy Collins | So, when I hear those records, it's different. And now, I have a very different range and I can sing all kinds of things easily, and so it's different and it's dependable and I'm very fortunate. |
Paul Burrell | I wouldn't mind bringing the Royal Butler Range to America or the Butler's Pantry or having that little slice of Martha Stewart's pie. I believe she doesn't have a big a pie as she used to have. |
Tim Johnson | Well, I'll take each issue as it comes. As you know, I've also voted against party leadership on some of the trade issues. I voted against on some tax issues in the past, when President Clinton tried to range the BTU tax, energy tax. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | New markets are opening for our commodities and a more extensive range for the employment of our ships. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | The incidental protection afforded to our home interests by discriminations within the revenue range it is believed will be ample. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Because the range of our needs is so great--because the reach of our opportunities is so great--let us be bold in our determination to meet those needs in new ways. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We face a broad range of threats and opportunities. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Range" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.22% of the time. "Range" is used about 19,760 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 (singular) | 98.22% | 19,407 | 461 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.16% | 230 | 19,815 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.45% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.17% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19,760 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "range" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Range | Last name | 2,000 | 6,789 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Cape Range Wireless Limited | United Kingdom | The Range Cooker Co. P.L.C. |
| USA | Range Resources Corporation | ||
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Range, AL |
Expressions using "range": active range ♦ admiralty Range ♦ Alaska Range ♦ apogean range ♦ approximate range ♦ artillery range ♦ at a range of ♦ at close range ♦ audio range ♦ balkan Mountain Range ♦ Battle range ♦ be out of range ♦ boiling range ♦ calculated range ♦ cascade range ♦ cattle range ♦ coast Range ♦ colour range ♦ computed range ♦ correcting range ♦ driving range ♦ electric range ♦ extended range ♦ extrapolated range ♦ extreme range of an influencing factor ♦ extreme range of an influencing quantity ♦ find the range ♦ firing range ♦ flicker range ♦ flying range ♦ forest range ♦ gas range ♦ geographical range ♦ give a free range to one's fancy ♦ golf range ♦ Grass Range ♦ great Dividing Range ♦ gunnery range ♦ he cannot range with poets ♦ home range ♦ Horizontal range ♦ intermediate range ballistic missile ♦ intermediate range missile ♦ iron range ♦ jib range ♦ karakoram Range ♦ karakorum Range ♦ killing range ♦ kitchen range ♦ long range ♦ long range patrol ♦ luminous range ♦ manipulated range ♦ maximum effective range ♦ maximum range ♦ medium range missile ♦ memory Type Range Registers ♦ Mesabi Range ♦ military range ♦ most economical range ♦ mountain range ♦ Mustagh Range ♦ nominal range of an influencing factor ♦ nominal range of an influencing quantity ♦ operative range ♦ out of range ♦ paralisia de Range ♦ plan range ♦ plastic range ♦ Polygenetic mountain range ♦ practice range ♦ precautionary range ♦ price range ♦ radio range ♦ radio range finding ♦ radio range leg ♦ radio range station ♦ range boiler ♦ range books by size ♦ range cattle ♦ range closet ♦ range elevation ♦ range finder ♦ range finder for sound ♦ range finding ♦ range hood ♦ range in ♦ range in music ♦ range insensitive axis ♦ range land ♦ range light ♦ range line ♦ range marker ♦ range of accommodation ♦ range of action ♦ range of cable ♦ range of colors ♦ range of colours ♦ range of fire ♦ range of focal lengths ♦ range of hills. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "range": range-bearing, range-doppler, range-extension, range-finder, range-land, range-pole, Range-rover, range-topping. | |
Ending with "range": age-range, frequency-range, home-range, intermediate-range, medium-range, middle-of-the-range, middle-range, mid-range, price-range, pro-range, sub-range, top-of-the-range, top-range, wide-range. | |
Containing "range": free-range hen, long-range air navigation, long-range artillery, long-range ballistic missile, long-range missile, long-range reconnaissance, long-range reconnaissance troop, long-range search aircraft, long-range study, long-range transport aircraft, medium-range search aircraft, medium-range transport aircraft, mid-range-to-unix, ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system, short-range air defense, short-range air defense engagement zone, short-range missile, short-range search aircraft, short-range transport aircraft. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
range rover | 1,985 | over the range microwave | 114 |
range hood | 818 | mountain range | 111 |
front range community college | 672 | long range weather | 102 |
gas range | 614 | commercial range | 97 |
out of range | 593 | range renault | 95 |
viking range | 526 | home on the range | 88 |
long range weather forecast | 330 | mg range | 87 |
iq range | 328 | 2003 range rover | 85 |
electric range | 284 | over the range microwave oven | 82 |
driving range | 236 | long range cordless phone | 78 |
wolf range | 233 | long range forecast | 70 |
salary range | 212 | viking range corporation | 70 |
shooting range | 202 | long range weather forcast | 70 |
range finder | 187 | ge range | 70 |
open range | 174 | land rover range rover | 68 |
dcs range | 165 | gun range | 66 |
laser range finder | 152 | frigidaire range | 65 |
kitchen range | 133 | nissan range | 63 |
range rover part | 124 | broan range hood | 62 |
golf driving range | 122 | jenn air range | 62 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "range"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bereik (accomplish, achieve, attain, get, reach). (various references) | |
Albanian | rreth (around, brim, by, circa, circle, circlet, circuit, compass, concerning, coterie, disc, district, gabion, girth, gyre, periphery, region, rim, ring, rondure, round, somewhere, union), radhis (align, Aline, rank, recapitulate), radhit (align, Aline, compose, rank, recapitulate, recite), rresht (consecutively, file, flat out, line, line up, on end, rank, row, tier, together), radhë (batch, consecution, cue, file, inning, innings, place, play, queue, rank, row, run, series, tier, turn), linjë (branch, factory, Lane, line, route, run, shop), largësi qitjeje (rifle shot, shooting range), një seri, klasifikoj (assort, categorize, classify, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, label, rank, rate, separate, sort, sort out, type), hapësirë (area, clearance, elbow room, expanse, expansion, extent, headway, ocean, play, precinct, space, span, Weald, wideness), gamë (gamut, scale), fushë (area, board, branch, champaign, cornfield, country, court, deposit, dial, domain, face, field, ground, major, plain, realm, region, scope, side, world), endem (blunder, divagate, drift, gad about, itinerate, muck about, roam, traipse, tramp, trapes, vagabondize, wander), diapazon (Diapason, tuning fork), amplitudë (amplitude), kufij (confines, scope), çark (flintlock), qoshk për qitje, zonë (area, belt, electorate, field, pale, precinct, region, section, zone), sferë (area, ball, domain, field, front, globe, globule, level, orb, realm, region, scope, sphere, world), shtrirje (compass, dimension, elongation, expansion, extension, extent, lie, make believe, prolongation, proportions, rame, ramification, reach, scope, spread, spreading, stretch, swing), sobë (cooker, oven, stove), territor (area, domain, precinct, territory), trevë (territory), vë në radhë (rank), varg (cavalcade, chain, column, concatenation, course, file, in file, line, network, nexus, number, rank, ridge, row, series, string, succession, train, variety, verse), vijë (ditch, gully, line, rill, rivulet, rut, set, streak, stria, track), një varg. (various references) | |
Arabic | سطر (cross, line, rule), رعى الماشية (graze, pasture), رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, straighten, tidy, trim), إتجاه (bearing, course, direction, drift, movement, orientation, persuasion, quarter, sense, temper, tendency, tenor, trend), إتخذ مكانا, إنضم (accede, associate, bunch, combine, enter, join), إنتظام (alignment, constancy, promptitude, punctuality, register, uniformity), إمتد (be extended, be prolonged, continue, elongate, expand, extend, lengthen, pervade, reach, sprawl, spread, stretch), جاب (cruise, roam, rove), جاب البحار (sail), جول (meander, roam, roll, rove, stalk, stray), خضع بلد للقانون, صف (alignment, bank, classroom, course, cue, delineate, grade, lane, line, lineup, queue, rank, row, schoolroom, tier), دائرة (area, circle, compass, department, orb, ring, round, section, service, set), طاف (afloat, buoyant, circuit, cruise, floating, promenade, roam, roll, rove, scour, swag, tour, travel), مسافة (distance, interval, milage, mileage, space, stretch), سلسلة جبال (mountain chain, roller coaster), سلم أنغام, تراصف (align, stratify), ترصن, تطواف, تسلسل (concatenation, gradation, sequence, series), تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, meander, mess around, mooch, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, roam, slop, slouch, traipse, tramp), تغير (alter, alteration, change, convert, metamorphose, modify, mutate, mutation, set of exchange, shift, shift up, swing, turn, variation, vary, vicissitude), نطاق (ambit, area, belt, compass, extension, field, framework, sash, stretcher, way, width, zone), نسق (arrangement, array, assort, coordinate, echelon, gear to, layout, manner, match, mode, orchestrate, ordain, rate, regulate, series, system), مدى (ambit, amplitude, carry, extent, gage, gauge, incidence, latitude, length, ocean, reach, scope, space, stretch, sweep), مجال (area, domain, field, province, purview, reach, room, scope, space, stretch), مجال الرمي (carry), صوب (shine, shoot, sight). (various references) | |
Aymara | khunuqollonaca (mountain range). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бия на, нареждам (arrange, bid, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, enjoin, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pack, pitch, seriate, set, set out, set up, settle, sort out, tell, trim), наравно съм, направление (bound, direction, drift, heading, run, set, tendency, track, turn, way), минавам (elapse, flow, get by, go, go by, lapse, pass, pass away, pass by, pass into, pass round, pass through, roll by, roll on, run, wear through), живея (be, bide, breathe, burrow, dig, dwell, home, house, indwell, inhabit, live, reside, room, seat, subsist, walk), асортимент (assortment), ареал, амплитуда (amplitude, throw), ловен участък (moor), лежа (couch, lain, lie, lie down, repose, rest, set, sit), диапазон (gamut), блуждая (err, roam, rove, wander, wilder), обсег (ambit, amplitude, area, coverage, extent, field, incidence, length, orb, purview, radius, reach, scope, shot, spread, swing), простирам се (continue, go, lie, reach, reach down, run, run down, sweep), присъединявам (add, adjoin, affiliate, aggregate, annex, join, tag, unite), прицелвам се (aim, level, point at, sight), поредица (consecution, procession, row, run, sequence, series, set, streak, string, succession), полигон (polygon), паса (browse, depasture, feed, grass, graze, herd, pasture, run, tend, wrangle), пасище (grassland, pasturage, run, sheep run, sheepwalk), плавам (float, navigate, nose, sail, voyage), имам еднакъв ранг, имам еднакъв чин, далекобойност (carry, shot), бродя (rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, walk, wander), кръстосвам (cross, crossbreed, cruise, hybridize, intercross, intersect, mix, sweep, walk), сфера (area, demesne, globe, orb, province, purview, reach, realm, region, scope, sphere), строявам се (fall in), створ, сортирам (assort, class, grade, jig, screen, separate, size, sort), серия (block, chapter, circuit, concatenation, consecution, course, cycle, parcel, round, run, sequence, series, set, suite), слой (coat, coating, layer, ply, region, section, stratum, thickness), регистър (calendar, compass, list, musette, register, roll), редица (file, line, line up, parade, rank, round, row, run, sequence, variety, various), район на действие, разстояние (distance, expanse, fetch, interval, length, remove, space, step, way), разред (caliber, category, grade, order, rank, rate), област (area, clime, demesne, department, district, domain, field, ground, land, limit, market, neck, province, purview, realm, region, territory), кухненска печка, обхват (compass, coverage, extent, orb, radius, scope, spread, sweep), кръг (circle, cycle, disc, disk, orb, ring, round, set, sphere), класифицирам (categorize, class, classify, distribute, grade, group, label, pigeonhole, rank, staple), клас (clan, class, classification, ear, form, grade, group, notion, rating), граници на вариране, граници на измерване, гама (chord, gamma, gamut, scale), верига (chain, circuit, network, tie), варирам (fluctuate, vary), визирам (endorse, initial, sight), огнище (firebox, fireplace, focus, hearth, ingle, nursery, seat). (various references) | |
Chinese | 范圍 (extent, scope), 范围 (Purview, Ranges, scope, Scopes), 靶場 (shooting range), 範圍 (limit, scope). (various references) | |
Czech | rozsah (amount, extension, extent, Gage, gauge, magnitude, scope, size, span, spread), pásmo (Ray, zone), řada (array, bank, file, line, queue, rank, round, row, sequence, series, set, string, tier), řadit se (rank), řetìz (chain, string), dohled (control, custody, eyeshot, surveillance, watch), dosah (compass, coverage, outreach, purview, radius, reach, sweep), doslech (earshot, hearsay), škála (dial, scale, spread, sweep), nařídit (command, decree, enact, enjoin, give a command, order, prescribe, set), výbìr (access, assortment, choice, digest, miscellany, pick, selection, variety), paleta (palette, pallet, spectrum), potulovat se (gad about, hover about, prowl, ramble, roam, rove, skulk, stroll, tramp, vagabond), prostírat se (extend, reach, spread, spread out, stretch), sortiment, sporák (cooker, kitchen range, Kitchener, stove), dostřel (gun-reach, gunshot). (various references) | |
Danish | range, prisområde (price range), affyringsrampe (launch base, launch pad, launch stand, launcher, launching base, launching pad, launching rack, launching ramp), crouponbane, domæne (domain, magnetic domain), facetnavn (facet name), koncessioneret omraade (extent to which applied, scope of application), naturomraade anvendeligt til graesning (grazing land, pasture land, range land), afdeling (branch, compartment, department, detachment, pigeonhole, section, speciality), prisniveau (price range), variationsbredde (span), spændvidde (span), spredning (deconcentration, devolution, dispersal, dispersion, distribution, diverging, probable error, regulating, scatter, scattering, shaping, span, spread, spreading, standard deviation, stray), udbredelse (propagation), værdimængde, værdiområde (domain, span between extreme values, values margin), overdrev (common, common pasture, community agistment area, community allotment, community pasture, grazing land, pasture land, range land). (various references) | |
Dutch | bereik (reach). (various references) | |
Esperanto | atingopovo (reach). (various references) | |
Farsi | میزان کردن (Adjust, Modulate, Orient, Regulate, Temper), منحنی مبنا, مسطح کردن (Rase, Tabulate), مرتب کردن (Address, Arrange, Concert, Marshal, Redd, Regularize, Serialize, Straighten, Tidy), چشم رس (Purview), حدود (Gamut, Limit, Module, Periphery, Precinct, Purview, Run, Scantling, Tether, Verge), تیررس (Gunshot), سیروحرکت کردن , عبورکردن (Cut, Go, Pass, Transit, Traverse), خطمبنا, اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Habit, Illustrate, Line, Perk, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Rank, Stud, Tidy, Trim), رساءی (Gamut, Purview, Reach, Shot), دسترسی (Access), درصف اوردن (Array), برد (Reach, Win). (various references) | |
Finnish | remminauha, levinneisyys, ampumamatka, arvoalue (category, domain, field), fasetin nimi (facet name), hella (stove), hinnan vaihtelualue (price range), hinta-alue (price range), jono (line, queue. file, succession), kantoinen, ääniala (register), keittiöliesi, variaatioväli (span), levinneisyysalue (area), liesi (cooker), piiri (circle, circumference, district, ring, scope), ulottua (cover, extend, reach, stretch), ulottuma (dimension, extent), ulottuvuus (dimension, extent, measurement), vaihdella (alternate, fluctuate, vary, vary between ... and), vaihteluväli (span), kantomatka. (various references) | |
French | champ. (various references) | |
German | Weideland (grass, grassland, grazing land, pasturage, pasture, pastureland), Spannweite (span, spread, wingspan, wingspread), Bereich (area, array, bulk, circuit, department, dimension, domain, extend, field, orbit, province, purview, realm, region, scope, sector, size, span, sphere, sweep, territory, universe, zone). (various references) | |
Greek | έκταση (area, distention, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, lengthiness, purview, reach, scope, spread, stretch, tract), εμβέλεια. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לערוך (arrange, array, dispose, draw up, edit, give, organize, prepare), רוחק (distance), טוח (sweep), הקף (circuit, circumference, compass, extent, girth, periphery, scope, sphere, sweep), כירים (stove), תחום (area, border, bound, boundary, compass, confines, domain, limit, mete, orb, precinct, radius, realm, region, scope, sphere, sweep, territory, zone), רכס (buckle, mound, mountain, ridge), לטוח (find the range), מתחם (defined area, locality, tessitura), לשוטט (gallivant, hang about, loiter, meander, mooch, perambulate, prowl, roam, rove, straggle, traipse, wander), מרעה (pasturage, pasture), מטוח (shooting range), מבחר (assortment, choice, elite, selection), מגבול, משרע (gamut, reach, span, spectrum, spread), לנוע (get about, get around, move, rove, stir, tremble, wander). (various references) | |
Hungarian | választék (assortment, choice, election, selection, variety), hatótávolság (effective range, radius of action, reach). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skotmál (reach), seiling (reach), drægi (reach). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tempat latihan, perapian (brazier, fireplace, ignition, oven), jarak (distance, magnitude), jangkauan (reach). (various references) | |
Italian | portata (carload, carrying capacity, compass, course, delivery capacity, discharge, flow, importance, reach, scope, sweep), fila (file, line, queue, rank, row, series, string, tier, train, turn), escursione (excursion, hike, jaunt, outing, ramble, tour, treat, trip), campo (branch, camp, course, field, laager, playing field, reach, scope, tether). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 距離 (distance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | レンジ (stove), レインジ , きょり (distance, huge profit), かくさ (disparity, qualitative difference), けん (and, authority, bayonet, blade, bond, case, certificate, circle, clock hand, concurrently, coupon, economy, emperor, health, heaven, in addition, item, matter, prefecture, sabre, sphere, stick-to-itiveness, sting, strength, sword, tendon, the right, ticket), はんい (extent, malice, scope, sphere, spirit of rebellion), だんちゃくきょり (gunshot). (various references) | |
Korean | 범위 (Ranges, REACH, scope, Scopes). (various references) | |
Manx | straih (break, flight of hurdles, nest, orchestral suite, row, run, screed, sequence, series, strata, stratum, strip, tier), sorn (fireplace under boiler), shooyl harrish, sheeyney (dilation, elongate, extension, give, hand, increase, lengthen, lengthening, marry, pass, produce, production, prolongation, prostrate, prostration, rick, spin out, sprain, spraining, spread, strain, stretch, stretch out, stretching, tension, uncoil), roie harrish (outflow, overflow, run over), roie (bolt, burst, charging, charging as animals, cursive; full retreat, dart, draught, draught ale, flow, flowing, flying, ladder, race, run, scurry, shooting, shooting as pain, slip, smuggle; running, smuggling, sprinting), rheam (field, gamut, monarchy), reaynal, fodjeeaght, cur ayns straih, cleeauraght, aber (bunker, pasturage, river mouth, run). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angeray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | alcance (ability, aptitude, attain, attainability, compasses, competence, competency, embezzlement, extent, grasp, importance, latitude, meaning, overtake, power, purview, radius, reach, scope, significance, signification, span, sphere, sweep, talent, theft). (various references) | |
Romanian | registru (book, compass, Diapason, list, record, Reed, register, registry, roll), rând (batch, bout, file, innings, it, line, queue, rank, round, row, series, stage, stem, string, succession, time, train, turn), distanţã (aloofness, difference, distance, elongation, interval, length, odds, offishness, remoteness, remove, run, space, standoffishness, step), alinia (align, come into the line, line), aliniere (alignment, dressing, line), asortiment (assortment, series, variety), şir (catena, catenation, column, course, file, line, pack, queue, rank, rope, row, series, string, succession, train), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), câmp (acre, field, ground, plain, scope, sphere), cerc (band, circle, circles, class, compass, coterie, district, extent, hoop, rim, ring, round, set, sphere, zone), clasifica (assort, class, classify, digest, distinguish, distribute, sort, sort into classes, tabulate), aşeza în rând, diapazon (Diapason, fork, gamut, scale, tonometer, tuning fork), vagabond (bum, gadabout, gypsy, hobo, landloper, mudlark, rogue, rover, runabout, scalawag, stray, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), gamã (Diapason, gamut, palette, scale, scope, series), lanţ (bands, cable, catena, catenation, chain, concatenation, fetters, link, ridge, series, string, succession, train), maşinã de gãtit (fireplace, oven), orbitã (circle, eyehole, orbit, scope, sphere), ordine (array, command, discipline, disposal, disposition, method, order, orderliness, peace, regime, regulation, right, sequence, succession, system, tidiness, trim), parcurge (beat up, cover, cross, do, go through, navigate, pace, promenade, run, sail, scour, travel through, traverse, walk), se întinde (elongate, extend, lie down, make, reach, recline, recoil, run, set off, spindle, sprawl, spread, stretch, sweep), sferã (bowl, branch, circle, direction, domain, extension, field, globe, kingdom, line, orb, parish, pill, province, purview, sphere), cutreiera (canvass, roam, scour, wander). (various references) | |
Russian | область (area, areas, country, department, domain, field, province, realm, region, subdistrict, territory), дистанция (distance, lap), дальность, полигон (firing ground, firing-field, polygon, shooting-range, testing ground), пределы (metes and bounds, sweep), протяжение (amplitude, expanse, expansion, extent, length, reach, spread, stretch), батарея (battery, pile, powerpack, troop), бродить (divagate, ferment, maunder about, maunder along, moon, perambulate, peregrinate, ramble, roam, rove, roved, wander, wandered), линия (gabionade, line, the line), амплитуда (amplitude), ареал, ассортимент (assortment, range of products), диапазон (band, communications band, compass, gamut, span), направление (course, directing, direction, directions, ism, lead, route, run, school, streamline, trend), стрельбище (firing ground, firing range, rifle-range, shooting range, shooting-range), вереница (vista), выстраивать в ряд (rank), горный кряж, колебаться область (ranges), цепь (catena, chain, circuit, train), радиус действия (reach), размах (reach, span, spread, sweep, swing), располагать по порядку (graduate), ряд (catena, file, lay, line, rank, row, series), серия (batch, series), странствовать (itinerate, peregrinate), зона (area, banding, district, region, zone, zoster). (various references) | |
Scottish | ranntair (a range), monahdh (a mountain range). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | venac (chaplet, corona, coronet, garland, gloriole, rim, stringcourse, wreath), postrojiti (align, aline, array, line up, muster), poligon (polygon), domet (sweep), domašaj (reach, throw), daljina (distance), štednjak, šporet (cooker, kitchen range, kitchener, self-cocker). (various references) | |
Spanish | recorrido (haul, lift, line, path, round, route, run, tack, trail, travel, way), gama (doe, gamma, gamut, scale, spectrum), alcance (chase, compass, extent, grasp, purview, reach, scope, shot, size, stretch). (various references) | |
Swedish | räckvidd (carry, fetch, incidence, purview, reach, scope, sweep), omfång (ambit, bulk, dimension, dimensions, distention, expanse, extend, extension, extent, ranging, scope, size, volume), betesmark (herbage, pasture, pasture-ground, pasture-land). (various references) | |
Thai | แถว (file, row), เตาหุงต้มชนิดหนึ่ง, ผันแปรภายในขอบเขตหนึ่ง, สถานที่ฝึกซ้อม, ทิวเขา, ตั้งวิถียิง, วิถีกระสุน, ขอบเขตหรือแนว, จัดแถว. (various references) | |
Turkish | boyunca gitmek (run along), erimi olmak, erim (compass, radius, reach, shot, stage, sweep), erişmek (achieve, attain, compass, reach), dolaşmak (air oneself, bat around, be afloat, become tangled, browse around, circuit, circulate, float, flow, go about, go around, go for a jaunt, go for a stroll, go for a walk, go on a jaunt, hike, itinerate, jaunt, jauntiness, kink, knot, look round, mat, mosey, perambulate, roam, rove, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, travel, walk, walk about, walk around, wander), doğrultmak (aim, Orient, orientate, Plumb, point, present, rectify, right, straighten, train, true up, unbend, uncross, up with), çeşit (assortment, cast, class, denomination, description, genre, ilk, item, kind, sample, sort, species, stripe, style, variety), dizi (battery, chain, cluster, course, cycle, order, progression, queue, rank, rope, round, row, sequence, serial, series, set, string, tier, train), kuzine, bölgede yaşamak, atış alanı (artillery range, rifle range), alan (acceptor, ambit, area, arena, buyer, compass, consignee, court, courtyard, domain, extent, field, maidan, pitch, plaza, public square, purchaser, reach, realm, recipient, region, scope, space, sphere, square, susceptive, theater, theatre, tract, yard), akıp gitmek (elapse, flee, lapse, run off, slide, slip by, stream), açık alan (agora, concourse, opening), çeşitlilik (assortment, distinctness, diversification, diversity, multiplicity, variation, variegation, variety), dizmek (align, Aline, arrange in a row, draw up, juxtapose, Marshal, rank, set, set in type, set out, set up in type, string), sıra halinde olmak, turlamak, tarafına çevirmek, silsile (chain, sequence, series, succession), saha (breadth, field, ground, pitch, tract), sürtmek (chafe, gad, gad about, gall, hang out, horse around, loiter, muck about, rub, tramp, wander idly), sıralanmak (align, Aline, be arranged, line up), gezmek (browse around, get about, go about, hike, itinerate, jaunt, knock about, knock around, perambulate, peregrinate, promenade, rove, tour, travel, visit, walk, wander, wander in), sıralı olmak, katılmak (accompany, adhere, affiliate, ally, ally oneself, attach oneself to, attend, be a party to, be in the swim, be out of breath, be out of the swim, be superadded, chip in, club, club together, come into, contract in, contribute, enter, enter into, go in for, go with, identify oneself with, join, join in, mingle, number, partake, participate, play ball, precondition, put in an appearance, share, share in, sit for, sit in, stand in, subscribe, subscribe to, take a share in, take part, team up, weigh in with), sıra (alignment, arrangement, array, bench, desk, file, form, linage, line, occasion, order, ordinal, place, progression, queue, rank, row, sequence, series, settle, slot, spell, succession, tier, train, turn), otlak (cattle ranch, cattle range, fell, field, grass, grassland, hayfield, Lea, paddock, pasturage, pasture, run, sheep run, sheepwalk), ocak (cooker, fire, fireplace, furnace, grate, hearth, Jan, January, oven, seed plot, seedbed, stove), nişan almak (aim, draw a bead on, level, present, sight, take aim at, take sight, train), menzil (carry, compass, gunshot, halting place, reach, rifle range, rifle shot, shot, stage), uzanmak (be couched, be ranging to the, grasp at, hand up, kip, kip down, lie, lie down, loll, lounge, outstretch, reach, reach forth, reach out, reach out for, recline, repose oneself, rest, run, run along, skirt along, snatch at, sprawl, spread), sıralamak (align, Aline, arrange, array, collate, collocate, compile, concatenate, juxtapose, line up, Marshal, put in order, string). (various references) | |
Turkmen | plita (r) (slab, stove). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сфера (ambit, area, circle, orb, purview, realm, region, sphere, way, world), стрій (array, line up), ставити в ряд (row), серія (batch, series, set), ряд (batch, catena, file, line, number, order, rank, row, series, string), шикуватися в ряди, напрям (bearings, course, direction, lay, line, road, school, sect, set, tack, tenor, tide, trend), простягатися (continue, extend, outreach, stretch), проходити паралельно (parallel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tầm đạn, lĩnh vực, hàng phạm vị, dãy (catena, succession, suite, train). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conprehensione, dorsa, dorsi, dorso, dorsum. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | range. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Kings Chapter 4, Verse 29 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dedit quoque Deus sapientiam Salomoni et prudentiam multam nimis et latitudinem cordis quasi harenam quae est in litore maris |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe God yaf wisdam to Salomon, and myche prudence ful greetli, and laargenesse of herte, as grauel that is in the brenk of the see. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Kings Chapter 4, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug ang Dios mihatag kang Salomon sa kaalam ug kahibalo nga hilabihan gayud, ug kadaku sa kasingkasing, sama sa balas nga anaa sa baybayon. |
| Danish | Gud skænkede Salomo Visdom og Kløgt i såre rigt Mål og en omfattende Forstand, som Sandet ved Havets Bred, |
| Dutch | En God gaf Salomo wijsheid en zeer veel verstand, en een wijd begrip des harten, gelijk zand, dat aan den oever der zee is. |
| Finnish | Ja Jumala antoi Salomolle viisautta ja ymmärrystä ylen runsaasti ja älyä niin laajalti, kuin on hiekkaa meren rannalla, |
| French | Dieu donna à Salomon de la sagesse, une très grande intelligence, et des connaissances multipliées comme le sable qui est au bord de la mer. |
| German | Und Gott gab Salomo sehr große Weisheit und Verstand und reichen Geist wie Sand, der am Ufer des Meeres liegt, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Bondye te bay Salomon anpil lespri, anpil bon konprann ak yon konesans nou pa ka mezire. |
| Hungarian | És az Isten adott bölcseséget Salamonnak és igen nagy értelmet és mély szívet, mint a fövény, mely a tenger partján van. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Allah memberikan kepada Salomo hikmat, dan pengetahuan yang luar biasa, serta pengertian yang amat dalam. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dikaruniakan Allah kepada raja Sulaiman akal budi amat banyak dan pengetahuan yang amat luas, seperti pasir yang di tepi laut banyaknya. |
| Maori | ¶ Na homai ana e te Atua he mohio ki a Horomona, me te mahara nui rawa, me te ngakau nui, koia ano kei te onepu i te taha o te moana. |
| Norwegian | Gud gav Salomo visdom og overmåte megen innsikt og en forstand vidt omfattende som sanden på havets bredd. |
| Portuguese | Ora, Deus deu a Salomão sabedoria, e muitíssimo entendimento, e conhecimentos multiplos, como a areia que está na praia do mar. |
| Rumanian | Dumnezeu a dat lui Solomon knyelepciune, foarte mare pricepere, wi cunowtinye multe ca nisipul de pe yqrmul mqrii. |
| Swedish | Och Gud gav Salomo vishet och förstånd i mycket rikt mått och så mycken insikt, att den kunde liknas vid sanden på havets strand, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "range": ranged, rangeland, rangelands, ranger, rangers, ranges. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "range": arrange, derange, disarrange, downrange, estrange, grange, midrange, multirange, omnirange, orange, outrange, overarrange, prearrange, rearrange, strange. (additional references) | |
Words containing "range": arranged, arrangement, arrangements, arranger, arrangers, arranges, boomeranged, bushranger, bushrangers, deranged, derangement, derangements, deranges, disarranged, disarrangement, disarrangements, disarranges, estranged, estrangement, estrangements, estranger, estrangers, estranges, granger, grangerism, grangerisms, grangers, granges, hydrangea, hydrangeas, midranges, omniranges, orangeade, orangeades, orangerie, orangeries, orangery, oranges, orangewood, orangewoods, orangey, outranged, outranges, overarranged, overarranges, pranged, prearranged, prearrangement, prearrangements, prearranges, rearranged. (additional references) | |
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"Range" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ange, Arango, Arnage, arne, frange, nange, prange, Prenge, raargh, raege, ragae, ragea, ragen, raget, ragey, Ragge, ralgex, ranae, rande, rane, Raneen, ranga, Rangaya, rangen, rangey, rangh, rangi, rangs, rangue, Rangzen, Ranj, Ranjen, ranse, Raogo, Rargh, reneg, renegg, Renga, renge, rerge, Rhangabe, riang, ringa, ringe, Ringen, ringi, ringo, rinoe, Ronga, Rongai, Ronge, Rongo, Runge, rungwe, srange, trange, urengoi, vange, wange, wrange. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "range" (pronounced rā"nj) |
| 4 | r ā" n j | derange, estrange, Grange, strange. |
| 3 | -ā" n j | arrange, change, exchange, interchange, mange, prearrange, rearrange, shortchange. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: anger, regna. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ager, earn, gaen, gane, gear, gnar, gran, near, rage, rang. | |
-2 letters: age, ane, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar, gen, nae, nag, rag, ran, reg. | |
-3 letters: ae, ag, an, ar, en, er, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-n-r" | |
+1 letter: anergy, angers, angler, argent, banger, danger, earing, engram, enrage, gainer, gander, ganger, garden, garner, garnet, genera, german, gnawer, graben, grange, graven, hanger, manger, nagger, onager, orange, ragmen, ranged, ranger, ranges, reagin, regain, regina, regnal, rehang, sanger. | |
+2 letters: acrogen, agentry, aginner, aligner, anergia, anergic, angered, angerly, anglers, angrier, argents, arrange, avenger, bangers, bearing, begroan, carnage, changer, clanger, dangers, dangler, deraign, derange, dragnet, earings, earning, earring, engager, engraft, engrail, engrain, engrams, engrave, enlarge, enraged, enrages, erasing, fearing, flanger, gainers, ganders, gangers, gangrel, gardens, garment, garners, garnets, gaunter, gearing, general, germane, germans, germina, glancer, gleaner, gnarled, gnarred, gnawers, grabens, gradine, grained, grainer, grandee, grander, granger, granges, granite, grannie, granted, grantee, granter, granule, grapnel, gratine, greaten, grenade, groaned, groaner, hangers, hearing, ingrate, jangler, langrel, manager, mangers, mangier, mangler, marengo, margent, naggers, naggier, nargile, nearing, negater, negator, onagers, oranges, orangey, oregano, pranged, rangers, rangier, reading, reagent, reagins, realign, reaming, reaping, rearing, reaving, rebegan, regains, reginae, reginal, reginas, regnant, regrant, rehangs, sangers, searing, seringa, strange, tanager, tangier, tangler, tearing, trepang, twanger, uneager, vinegar, wagoner, wangler, wearing, wrangle, zingare. | |
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