Meaning

• A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

• A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.

• Selection, array.

  "We sell a wide range of cars."

• An area for practicing shooting at targets.

• An area for military training or equipment testing.

• The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.

  "One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash."

• Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).

  "This missile's range is 500 kilometres."

• An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.

• Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.

• The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.

• The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.

• The defensive area that a player can cover.

  "Jones has good range for a big man."

• The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.

• The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.

• A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.

  "std::for_each  calls the given function on each value in the input range."

• An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

• The step of a ladder; a rung.

• A bolting sieve to sift meal.

• A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

• In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.

• The scope of something, the extent that something covers or includes.

• The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

  "By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his acting range."

Meaning

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

• To rove over or through.

  "to range the fields"

• To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.

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

• (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."

• To classify.

  "to range plants and animals in genera and species"

• To form a line or a row.

  "The front of a house ranges with the street."

• To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

• 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 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.

• To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.

  "The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay."

• To separate into parts; to sift.

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

  "to range the coast"

• Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.