An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.

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

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

• As to acquir’d habits and abilities in Learning, his Writings having given the World ſufficient account of them, there remains onely to obſerve, that the range and compaſs of his knowledge fill’d the whole Circle of the Arts, and reach’d thoſe ſeverals which ſingle do exact an entire man unto themſelves, and full age.
• For we may further obſerve that men of the greateſt abilities are moſt fired with ambition : and that, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the leaſt actuated by it ; whether it be that a man’s ſenſe of his own incapacities makes him deſpair of coming at fame, or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereſt or convenience, or that Providence, in the very frame of his ſoul, would not ſubject him to ſuch a paſſion as would be uſeleſs to the world, and a torment to himſelf.

mathematicssciencesThe set of values (points) which a function can obtain.

mathematicssciencesstatisticsThe length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.

ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe defensive area that a player can cover.

• Jones has good range for a big man.

entertainmentlifestylemusicThe scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.

biologyecologynatural-sciencesThe geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.

computingengineeringmathematicsA sequential list of values specified by an iterator.

• std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.

An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

• The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.

obsoleteThe step of a ladder; a rung.

• the first range of that ladder

obsoletedialectalA bolting sieve to sift meal.

A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

• , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take a range all the world over.

historicalIn the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.

The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

• By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.

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

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

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

biologynatural-sciencesTo be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.

• The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

governmentmilitarypoliticsTo determine the range to a target.

To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.

• to range the coast

ball-gamesbaseballgamesOf a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

• Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.