Range Definition–noun | 1. | the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles. |
| 2. | the extent or scope of the operation or action of something: within range of vision. |
| 3. | the distance to which a projectile is or may be sent by a weapon. |
| 4. | the distance of the target from the weapon. |
| 5. | an area equipped with targe
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| 6. | an area used for flight-testing missiles. |
| 7. | the distance of something to be located from some point of operation, as in sound ranging. |
| 8. | the distance that can be covered by an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle, carrying a normal load without refueling. |
| 9. | Statistics. the difference between the largest and smallest values in a statistical distribution. |
| 10. | a continuous course of masonry of the same height from end to end. |
| 12. | Surveying. | a. | the horizontal direction or extension of a survey line established by two or more marked points. |
| b. | (in U.S. public-land surveys) one of a series of divisions numbered east or west from the principal meridian of the survey and consisting of a row of townships, each six miles square, that are numbered north or south from a base line. |
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| 13. | Navigation. a line established by markers or lights on shore for the location of soundings. |
| 14. | a rank, class, or order: in the higher ranges of society. |
| 15. | a row, line, or series, as of persons or things. |
| 16. | an act of ranging or moving around, as over an area or region. |
| 17. | Also called rangeland. an area or tract that is or may be ranged over, esp. an open region for the grazing of livestock. |
| 18. | the region over which a population or species is distributed: the range
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| 19. | Mathematics. the set of all values attained by a given function throughout its domain. |
| 20. | a chain of mountains forming a single system: the Catskill Range. |
| 21. | a large portable or stationary cooking stove having burners built into the top surface and containing one or more ovens. |
| 22. | Physics. the maximum distance that a charged particle, as a proton, can penetrate a given medium and still maintain sufficient kinetic energy to produce ionization in the medium. |
| 23. | Nautical. | a. | a large cleat for securing various lines, esp. the tacks and sheets of courses. |
| b. | a length of anchor cable laid on deck. |
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–adjective | 24. | working or grazing on a range: range horses; range animals like steer and sheep. |
–verb (used with object) | 25. | to draw up or arrange (persons or things) in rows or lines or in a specific position, company, or group: The sergeant ranged the troops in columns of six across. |
| 26. | to place or arrange systematically; set in order; dispose: The members of the cast were ranged in their proper places on stage. |
| 27. | to place in a particular class; classify: They ranged themselves with the liberals. |
| 28. | to make straight, level, or even, as lines of type. |
| 29. | to pass over or through (an area or region) in all directions, as in exploring or searching: They ranged the entire countryside. |
| 30. | to pasture (cattle) on a range. |
| 31. | to direct or train, as a telescope, upon an object. |
| 32. | to obtain the range of (something aimed at or to be located). |
| 33. | Nautical. to lay out (an anchor cable) so that the anchor may descend smoothly. |
–verb (used without object) | 34. | to vary within certain limits: prices ranging from $5 to $10. |
| 35. | to have a certain variety of things somehow related: emotions ranging from smugness to despair. |
| 36. | to move around or through a region in all directions, as people or animals. |
| 37. | to rove, roam, or wander: The talk ranged over a variety of subjects. |
| 38. | to stretch out or extend in a line, as things: shabby houses ranged along the road. |
| 39. | to extend, run, or go in a certain direction: a boundary ranging from east and west. |
| 40. | to lie or extend in the same line or plane, as one thing with another or others. |
| 41. | to take up a position in a line or in order. |
| 42. | to extend, be found, or occur over an area or throughout a period, as an animal or plant. |
| 43. | to have a specified range, as a gun, missile, etc. |
| 44. | to find the range, as of something aimed at or to be located. |
| 45. | Nautical. (of an anchored vessel) to swerve or sheer (often fol. by about). |
—Idiom| 46. | in range, (of two or more objects observed from a vessel) located one directly behind the other. |
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Rover Definition–noun | 1. | a person who roves; wanderer. |
| 2. | Archery. | a. | a mark selected at random, as in a competition between two archers wandering over a specified area. |
| b. | one of a group of fixed marks at a long distance. |
| c. | an archer who shoots at such a mark. |
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| 3. | Croquet. a ball that has been driven through all the arches and needs only to strike the last peg to be out of the game. |
| 4. | British. | a. | (at concerts or the like) a person who has a ticket for standing room only. |
| b. | a senior boy scout, 18 years of age or older. |
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