range
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(verb) lay out in a line |
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Synonyms: array, lay out, set out |
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Related Words: arrange, compart, set up |
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(verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state" |
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Synonyms: straddle |
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Related Words: be, comprise, constitute, make up, represent, spread-eagle |
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(verb) change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; My students range from very bright to dull" |
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Synonyms: run |
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Related Words: be |
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(verb) have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles" |
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Related Words: carry |
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(noun) a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range" |
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Related Words: facility, installation, practice range, rifle range, test range |
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(noun) a variety of different things or activities; "he answered a range of questions"; "he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection" |
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Related Words: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixture, motley, potpourri, variety |
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(noun) the limits within which something can be effective; "he was beyond the range of their fire" |
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Synonyms: reach |
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Related Words: earreach, earshot, eyeshot, hearing, limit, rifle range, rifle shot, view |
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(noun) a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze; "they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring"; "he dreamed of a home on the range" |
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Related Words: home range, home territory, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract |
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(noun) the limits of the values a function can take; "the range of this function is the interval from 0 to 1" |
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Related Words: limit, limit point, point of accumulation |
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Antonyms: domain |
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(noun) a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range" |
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Synonyms: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range of mountains |
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Related Words: Adirondack Mountains, Adirondacks, Alaska Range, Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains, Alps, Andes, Apennines, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians, Balkan Mountain Range, Balkan Mountains, Balkans, Berkshire Hills, Berkshires, Black Hills, Blue Ridge Mountains, Cascade Range, Cascades, Catskill Mountains, Catskills, Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains, Coast Mountains, Coast Range, Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, Great Smoky Mountains, Himalaya Mountains, Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush Mountains, Karakoram, Karakoram Range, Karakorum Range, Kuenlun, Kuenlun Mountains, Kunlun, Kunlun Mountains, Mustagh, Mustagh Range, Ozark Mountains, Ozarks, Pyrenees, Rockies, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains, St. Elias Mountains, St. Elias Range, Teton Range, Tien Shan, Tyan Shan, Ural Mountains, Urals, formation, geological formation, geology, sierra, the Alps, the Himalaya |
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(verb) let eat; "graze animals" |
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Synonyms: graze |
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Related Words: feed, give, grass, grub |
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(noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" |
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Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, reach, scope |
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Related Words: confines, expanse, extent, gamut, horizon, internationalism, internationality, latitude, palette, pallet, purview, spectrum, sweep, view |
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(noun) the limit of capability; "within the compass of education" |
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Synonyms: compass, grasp, reach |
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Related Words: capability, capableness, potentiality, sight |
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(verb) assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?" |
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Synonyms: grade, order, place, rank, rate |
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Related Words: downgrade, judge, prioritize, reorder, seed, sequence, shortlist, subordinate, upgrade |
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(noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove" |
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Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, stove |
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Related Words: Primus, Primus stove, charcoal burner, cookstove, electric range, gas cooker, gas range, gas stove, kitchen appliance, potbelly, potbelly stove, spirit stove |
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(verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" |
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Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, pasture |
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Related Words: eat, feed |
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(verb) wander about aimlessly; "The gypsies roamed the woods" |
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Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, roam, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander |
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Related Words: gad, gallivant, go, jazz around, locomote, maunder, move, travel |
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