English Dictionary

range

/ɹeɪndʒ/

verb

(intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. / (transitive) To rove over or through.

He loves to range across the countryside on his motorcycle.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.

意味（2）

(transitive) To rove over or through.

to range the fields

意味（3）

(obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.

The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.

意味（4）

(transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.

At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.

意味（5）

(intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.

The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.

意味（6）

(transitive) To classify.

The coins are ranged into nine classes.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To form a line or a row.

The front of a house ranges with the street.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

And range with humble livers in content.

意味（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.

Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.

意味（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.

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

意味（11）

(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.

The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

意味（12）

(military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.

意味（13）

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

to range the coast

意味（14）

(baseball) Of 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.