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5-letter words (4 found)

ANGER,RANGE,REGNA,RENGA,

4-letter words (18 found)

AGEN,AGER,AREG,EARN,GAEN,GANE,GARE,GEAN,GEAR,GENA,GNAR,GRAN,GREN,NARE,NEAR,RAGE,RANG,REAN,

3-letter words (21 found)

AGE,ANE,ARE,EAN,EAR,ENG,ERA,ERG,ERN,GAE,GAN,GAR,GEN,GER,NAE,NAG,NEG,RAG,RAN,REG,REN,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AG,AN,AR,EA,EN,ER,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 54 words from range according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of range

range arnge rnage nrage anrge narge ragne argne rgane grane agrne garne rngae nrgae rgnae grnae ngrae gnrae angre nagre agnre ganre ngare gnare raneg arneg rnaeg nraeg anreg nareg raeng areng reang erang aerng earng rneag nreag renag ernag nerag enrag anerg naerg aenrg eanrg nearg enarg ragen argen rgaen graen agren garen raegn aregn reagn eragn aergn eargn rgean grean regan ergan geran egran agern gaern aegrn eagrn gearn egarn rngea nrgea rgnea grnea ngrea gnrea rnega nrega renga ernga nerga enrga rgena grena regna ergna gerna egrna ngera gnera negra engra genra egnra anger nager agner ganer ngaer gnaer anegr naegr aengr eangr neagr enagr agenr gaenr aegnr eagnr geanr eganr ngear gnear negar engar genar egnar

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Definitions and meaning of range

range

Etymology

From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (to range, to rank, to order,), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (a rank, row), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (ring, circle, curve).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒ

Noun

range (plural ranges)

  1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
  3. Selection, array.
  4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  5. An area for military training or equipment testing.
    Synonyms: base, training area, training ground
  6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
    Synonyms: distance, radius
  7. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
  8. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
  9. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  10. The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  11. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
    Antonym: domain
  12. (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.
  13. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
  14. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
    Synonym: compass
  15. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  16. (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
  17. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  18. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
  19. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  20. 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.
  21. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
  22. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

Hyponyms

Holonyms

  • (values a function can obtain): codomain

Coordinate terms

  • (firing range): shooting gallery
  • (radius): azimuth, elevation, inclination
  • (cooking stove): oven

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Japanese: レンジ (​renji)
  • Korean: 레인지 (reinji)

Translations

Verb

range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
  2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th–19th c.]
  4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
  5. (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  6. (transitive) To classify.
  7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
  8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  9. (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.
  10. (transitive) 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.
  11. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  12. (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
  13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
  14. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:range.

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Further reading

  • “range”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “range”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “range”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “range”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  • “range”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “range”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “range”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

  • Agner, Negar, Regan, anger, areng, grane, regna, renga

Estonian

Etymology

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.

Adjective

range (genitive range, partitive ranget, comparative rangem, superlative kõige rangem)

  1. strict

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English range.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɑŋːe/, [ˈrɑ̝ŋːe̞]
  • IPA(key): /ˈrei̯ntsi/, [ˈre̞i̯nts̠i]
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋːe, -eintsi
  • Syllabification(key): ran‧ge

Noun

range

  1. (golf) range, shooting range (place to practice shooting)
    Synonyms: harjoittelualue, harjoitusalue

Declension

  • The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used when talking about location; for example, "at the range" is rangella.
  • In writing, inflected after pronunciation 1:

French

Pronunciation

Verb

range

  1. inflection of ranger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • nager, régna

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the adjective rang and vrang.

Noun

range f (definite singular ranga, indefinite plural ranger, definite plural rangene)

  1. the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out
    Antonym: rette
  2. the trachea, due to it being the wrong pipe, as opposed to the oesophagus, when eating

Verb

range (present tense rangar, past tense ranga, past participle ranga, passive infinitive rangast, present participle rangande, imperative range/rang)

  1. (transitive) to turn inside-out (e.g. a piece of clothing)

Alternative forms

  • ranga (a-infinitive)

Derived terms

  • range seg inn på ein

Adjective

range

  1. definite singular of rang
  2. plural of rang

References

  • “range” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • ganer, garen, genar, grena, ragen, ragne, regna, renga

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

range

  1. inflection of ranger:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of rangir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org