| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To separate into parts; to sift. |
| • | To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species. |
| • | To rove over or through; as, to range the fields. |
| • | To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast. |
| • | To be native to, or to live in; to frequent. |
| • | To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay. |
| • | A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains. |
| • | An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. |
| • | The step of a ladder; a rung. |
| • | A kitchen grate. |
| • | An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove. |
| • | A bolting sieve to sift meal. |
| • | A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives. |
| • | The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried. |
| • | Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile. |
| • | A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced. |
| • | In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart. |
| • | See Range of cable, below. |
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