range
noun · verb
Simple meaning
A series of hills or mountains.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
raynjIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈɹeɪndʒ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
A series of hills or mountains
“The valley was between two ranges of hills.”
A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
An area for practicing shooting at targets.
The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
The limit of capability
verb
intransitive
To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
intransitive
Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
transitive
To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
intransitive
To form a line or a row.
intransitive
To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
transitive
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.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner (estimated)
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: A series of hills or mountains
Used this way, range is a common word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
“The valley was between two ranges of hills.”
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Usage note
It most often appears in the pattern “range of …”, which is worth copying when you use it.
Natural pattern: range of …
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use range
- “The valley was between two ranges of hills.”noun
- “A piano has a greater range than the human voice.”noun
- “He answered a range of questions.”noun
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Word Family
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Inflected forms
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Wandering freely.
A member of the Texas state highway patrol.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object.
Any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep).
Surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide.
Exhaust hood over a kitchen range.
Direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids.
The set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined.
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