(n.) 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; to rank; as, to
range soldiers in line.
(n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line,
row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and
figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
(n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
(n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to
arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and
species.
(n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
(n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to
range the coast.
(n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
(v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or
direction; to roam.
(v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be
capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to
horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees
Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
(v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of
arrangement or classification; to rank.
(v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction;
to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often
followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to
range along the coast.
(v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or
region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
(v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of
buildings; a range of mountains.
(v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order;
a class.
(v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
(v.) A kitchen grate.
(v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in
brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking;
also, a kind of cooking stove.
(v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
(v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a
ramble; an expedition.
(v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion;
especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and
pasture.
(v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or
extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of
one's voice, or authority.
(v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
(v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile
is carried.
(v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or
projectile.
(v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is
practiced.
(v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or
line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles
apart.
(v.) See Range of cable, below.
