Therein an hundredraunges werenpight, / 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 theRange, and let down theCynders before he went to Bed.
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and arange 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 extraordinaryrange of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
1661,John Fell,The Life of The most Learned, Reverend and Pious DrH. Hammond, 2nd edition, London: J. Flesher, published1662,page99:
As to acquir’d habits and abilities inLearning, his Writings having given the World ſufficient account of them, there remains onely to obſerve, that therange and compaſs of his knowledge fill’d the whole Circle of the Arts, and reach’d thoſe ſeverals which ſingle do exact an entire man unto themſelves, and full age.
1711 December 22, Joseph Addison, “The Spectator”, inThe Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, volume III, London: Jacob Tonson, published1721,page255:
For we may further obſerve that men of the greateſt abilities are moſt fired with ambition : and that, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the leaſt actuated by it ; whether it be that a man’s ſenſe of his own incapacities makes him deſpair of coming at fame, or that he has not enoughrange of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereſt or convenience, or that Providence, in the very frame of his ſoul, would not ſubject him to ſuch a paſſion as would be uſeleſs to the world, and a torment to himſelf.
Far as Creation’s ample range extends, / The ſcale of Senſual, Mental pow’rs aſcends : / Mark how it mounts, to Man’s imperial race, / From the green myriads in the peopled graſs !
(statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in asample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
(sports,baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
Jones has goodrange for a big man.
(music) Thescale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the inputrange.
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
a.1677 (date written),Matthew Hale,The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London:[…] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery,[…], published1677,→OCLC:
The nextRange of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.
row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart
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The soule is variable in all manner of formes, andrangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
(transitive) To bring (something) into a specifiedposition orrelationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.[from 16th c.]
At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us beganranging alongside.
1910,Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Bag”, inReginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London:Methuen & Co.[…],→OCLC,page76:
Inranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
(intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
The variable xranges over allreal values from 0 to 10.
2002, Charlie Pottins, “How ADL got caught in Apartheid spy case”, inJewish Socialist, number46:
The police seized 12,000 files containing information on a wide range of organisations and individuals. The ADL claimed to be only monitoring ‘hate groups’, and denied passing information to Israel or South Africa. But the filesranged over Arab-American community organisations, trade unions, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, Anti-Apartheid, Women in Black and the International Jewish Peace Union. Only a relative handful of files dealt with the far right.
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidatesranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densitiesrange from that of styrofoam to iron.
2023 November 1, Robert Drysdale, “Leven is nearly back on track...”, inRAIL, number995, page58:
The 2025 timetable would feature two trains per hour, alternately routed via Kirkcaldy (with 11 intermediate stops) and Dunfermline (14 stops), with journey timesranging between 65 and 81 minutes.
1740, George Turnbull,The Principles of Moral Philosophy, page77:
Were this dependence of the body and mind more studied, and its effects collected andranged into proper order; no doubt, we would be able to form a better judgment of it, and see further into the good purposes to which it serves;
(transitive) 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.
1796,Edmund Burke,A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension,[…], London:[…] J. Owen,[…], andF[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington,[…],→OCLC:
It would be absurd in me torange myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
torange the coast
(baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
2009, Jason Aronoff,Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964,→ISBN,page250:
Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Maysranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.
