range
/ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
noun
An area for practicing shooting at targets.
noun
An area for military training or equipment testing.
Example Sentences
- "Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde."
- "There was juſt ſuch another Innocent as this, in my Fathers Family : He did the Courſe Work in the Kitchin, and was bid at his firſt Coming to take off the Range, and let down the Cynders before he went to Bed."
- "We sell a wide range of cars."
- "But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal."
- "Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements."
- "We could see the ship at a range of five miles."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
Usage
- Obsolete
- British usage
- American usage
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
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Avenue Range
basin and range topography
Basket Range
Biban Range
Bitterroot Range
Black Range
Border Ranges