A Quick and Simple Dictionary

range

1. Noun.  Line or series of mountains.
2. Noun.  A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
3. Noun.  Selection, array. Eg: ''A range of cars''.
4. Noun.  An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5. Noun.  An area for military training or equipment testing.
6. Noun.  The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
7. Noun.  Maximum range of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
8. Noun.  An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
9. Noun.  (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
10. Noun.  (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
11. Noun.  (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
12. Noun.  (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
13. Noun.  (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
14. Noun.  (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
15. Verb.  (intransitive) To travel (term, over) (an area, etc); to roam, wander. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
16. Verb.  (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit (term, to) , (term, over) . (defdate, 16th-19th c.) .
17. Verb.  (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
18. Verb.  (intransitive) (''mathematics, computing''; ''followed by'' '''over''') Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
19. Verb.  (transitive) to classify.