ranged
verb
- 1
To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- 2
To rove over or through.
“to range the fields”
- 3
To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
- 4
To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- 5
(followed by over) 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.”
- 6
To classify.
“to range plants and animals in genera and species”
- 7
To form a line or a row.
“The front of a house ranges with the street.”
- 8
To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- 9
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
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
To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
“The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.”
- 12
To separate into parts; to sift.
- 13
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
“to range the coast”
- 14
Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
adjective
- 1
(of a projectile, or projectile system) whose range can be adjusted
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