📖 R — The English dictionary · page 5

rampion — Everyday, meaning 1: Rampion is a plant with a long, pale root that can be eaten in salads.↗ Example: The girl stole rampion from the witch's garden.↗ · The wife longed for rampion to eat.↗ · A man climbed into the garden to steal rampion.↗

ramrod — Everyday, meaning 1: A ramrod is a long, thin rod once used to push powder and shot down the barrel of an old gun.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «As straight as a ramrod» means very stiff and upright.↗ Example: The soldier stood as straight as a ramrod.↗ · Old guns were loaded with a ramrod.↗ · Her back was straight as a ramrod.↗

ranch — Everyday, meaning 1: A very large farm, especially in the USA, Canada or Australia, where cattle, horses or sheep are raised.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To run a ranch or raise animals on one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Ranch dressing» (US) is a creamy salad dressing; a «ranch house» is a long one-storey house.↗ Example: My cousin lives on a cattle ranch in Texas.↗ · The ranch has 120 cows and 30 horses.↗ · A ranch hand fixed the fence.↗ · Dad likes ranch dressing on his salad.↗ · They ranch sheep in the outback.↗ · How many legs do 12 horses on the ranch have?↗ · We rode horses on a ranch during the holidays.↗

rancher — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who owns or runs a ranch, a very large farm, mainly in the USA, Canada and Australia, where cattle, sheep or horses are raised.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US) A ranch-style house: a long, low house on one floor.↗ Example: The rancher rode out to check his cattle.↗ · Ranchers in Montana raise cattle on huge open lands.↗ · In Australia a rancher is usually called a grazier or station owner.↗ · The rancher fixed the fence before winter.↗ · Ranchers need water for their animals in dry summers.↗ · My uncle is a rancher in Alberta.↗

rancid — Everyday, meaning 1: Smelling or tasting bad because it has gone off, especially fat, oil, butter, nuts or milk: «rancid butter».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Horrible or very unpleasant: «That joke was rancid.».↗ Example: The butter had gone rancid in the heat.↗ · Old cooking oil smells rancid.↗ · Nuts can turn rancid if you keep them too long.↗ · Throw that rancid milk away.↗ · Ugh, your PE bag smells rancid!↗ · Keep oil in a cool, dark place so it does not go rancid.↗ · It consisted of watery soup, seasoned with pepper and rancid oil.↗

rancour — Everyday, meaning 1: Bitter, deep anger or hatred that lasts a long time after someone has hurt you.↗ Example: There was no rancour between the two friends after the argument.↗ · The old feud left a lot of rancour.↗ · She spoke without rancour about the past.↗ · Rancour between the countries lasted for years.↗ · Forgiveness can wash away rancour.↗ · Toad bore no rancour once his friends had saved Toad Hall.↗

rand — Everyday, meaning 1: The rand is the money of South Africa; one rand is made of 100 cents.↗ Its symbol is R, and its code is ZAR.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Rand (short for the Witwatersrand) is an area of ridges around Johannesburg, famous for gold mines.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) A rand is a strip of leather in a shoe.↗ Example: In South Africa, a loaf of bread costs a few rand.↗ · The rand is divided into 100 cents.↗ · Prices in Cape Town are written with R, as in R25.↗ · Gold was found on the Rand long ago, and Johannesburg grew up around the mines.↗ · If 1 pound buys 20 rand, then 5 pounds buy 100 rand.↗ · She changed her dollars into rand at the airport.↗ · The coin had a springbok on it.↗

random — Everyday, meaning 1: Random means happening or chosen with no plan, pattern or reason, so you cannot guess it beforehand.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Random (informal) means strange, unexpected or not connected to what is going on.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A random person or thing is just any one, not a special or known one.↗ Example: The teacher picked a name at random from the hat.↗ · Roll the dice to get a random number from one to six.↗ · The scientist chose ten random leaves to measure.↗ · He said something totally random about penguins.↗ · A random man on the bus asked me the time.↗ · The colours on the quilt were in a random order.↗ · If you pick a random marble, what is the chance it is red?↗ · Don't click on random links online.↗ · The pictures I have here given have not been chosen at random, but follow in their proper order, just as they were described to me.↗

randomly — Everyday, meaning 1: Randomly means without a plan, pattern or reason, so that you cannot predict what will happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Randomly means by chance, so that every choice has the same chance of being picked.↗ Example: The teacher randomly picked a name from the hat.↗ · A counter is taken randomly from the bag.↗ · The birds flew randomly around the field.↗ · The computer randomly shuffles the songs.↗ · She randomly started laughing in the middle of the lesson.↗ · The groups were chosen randomly to be fair.↗

randomness — Everyday, meaning 1: Randomness is the quality of happening by chance, with no pattern, plan or way to predict exactly what will happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Randomness is being strange, odd or unexpected, as in «the randomness of his jokes».↗ Example: Rolling a dice shows randomness — you can't predict the next number.↗ · There is an element of randomness in which cards you get.↗ · Computers find true randomness surprisingly hard.↗ · The randomness of the weather makes holidays tricky to plan.↗ · The randomness of my little brother's questions makes me laugh.↗ · Scientists add randomness when choosing a sample to keep it fair.↗ · The game uses randomness so every level is different.↗

randy — Everyday, meaning 1: Randy is a boy's or man's name, often short for Randall or Randolph.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an ordinary word, randy is a rude adult word; pupils will meet it mostly as the name.↗ Example: Randy has 12 baseball cards.↗ · Randy gave 4 cards to his brother.↗ · Randy runs 3 miles every day.↗ · How many cards does Randy have now?↗ · Randy and his sister walk to school together.↗ · Randy scored the winning goal.↗

range — Everyday, meaning 1: In maths, the range is the difference between the smallest and the biggest of a set of numbers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A range is a set of different things of one kind: «a range of colours».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A range of hills or mountains is a row of them.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Range is how far something can reach: «out of range».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To range from … to … is to go between two limits: «ages range from 6 to 10».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A range is a cooker (stove).↗ Everyday, meaning 7: To range over a place means to roam about it freely, without a fixed route.↗ Example: Find the range of 3, 8, 5 and 12.↗ · The ages range from 6 to 11 years.↗ · Prices range from 2 to 9 dollars.↗ · The temperatures had a range of 7 degrees.↗ · The Rocky Mountains are a long mountain range.↗ · The shop sells a wide range of toys.↗ · My phone is out of range here.↗ · The wolves roam over a large range.↗ · Grandma cooks on an old range.↗ · Wild and shy and monstrous creatures ranged in her plains and forests.↗ · And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.35, JPS 1917)↗ · Some of them believe it to be a production of the first or the second century R. 0. ; others place it in the Geonic period, ranging from the seventh to the ninth centuries of the Christian Era.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.↗ (Writings JOB.39.8, JPS 1917)↗

ranger — Everyday, meaning 1: A ranger is a person whose job is to look after a park, forest or wild area, protect its animals and plants, and help and guide visitors.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In some armies, a ranger is a specially trained soldier.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In stories, a ranger is someone who wanders and guards wild lands.↗ Example: The park ranger showed us how to tell a bear track from a dog track.↗ · Ask a ranger before you light a campfire.↗ · The ranger station is at the start of the trail.↗ · Rangers counted the koalas in the forest.↗ · I earned a Junior Ranger badge at Yellowstone.↗ · A ranger closed the path because of the flood.↗ · In the story, the ranger guarded the forest from the wolves.↗

rank — Everyday, meaning 1: A position in a group or list, higher or lower than others.↗ e.g. She is first in rank.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An official level in the army, police or another group: the rank of captain.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To put things in order by size, score or importance, or to have a place in such an order.↗ e.g. Rank the numbers from smallest to largest.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A row or line of people or things: a taxi rank, ranks of soldiers.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (adjective, informal) Very smelly or nasty: «That bin is rank!»↗ (UK slang).↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (adjective) Complete or total: a rank beginner.↗ Example: Rank the children from shortest to tallest.↗ · She ranks third in the school chess club.↗ · The soldier was promoted to the rank of sergeant.↗ · We waited at the taxi rank.↗ · (slang) Ew, these old socks are rank!↗ · He is a rank beginner at tennis.↗ · Rank 45, 12, 78 and 30 from largest to smallest.↗ · The team is ranked number one in the country.↗ · "The law is there for people of high rank, too," said Holberg.↗ · And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears.↗ (Torah GEN.41.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.↗ (Torah GEN.41.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And there were beams in three rows; and light was over against light in three ranks.↗ (Prophets 1KI.7.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And as a mighty man, who hath the earth, and as a man of rank, who dwelleth in it, (Writings JOB.22.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The captain of fifty, and the man of rank, and the counsellor, and the cunning charmer, and the skilful enchanter.↗ (Prophets ISA.3.3, JPS 1917)↗

ranking — Everyday, meaning 1: A position in a list that shows how good or important someone or something is compared with others: «a world ranking of 5».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rankings) The list itself: «the tennis rankings», «school league rankings».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Having a high or the highest position: «the ranking officer».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) Putting things in order: «Ranking your favourite foods is fun.».↗ Example: She is ranked number one in the world rankings.↗ · Ranking the planets by size, Jupiter comes first.↗ · Our team rose in the league rankings after three wins.↗ · The ranking officer gave the orders.↗ · We did a ranking of our favourite books from 1 to 10.↗ · Websites appear in a ranking when you search online.↗

rankle — Everyday, meaning 1: To rankle is to keep causing hurt, anger or bitterness for a long time, long after the event is over.↗ Example: The unkind words rankled for days.↗ · The thorn of love rankled in his heart.↗ · Even after the game, the lost penalty still rankled with him.↗

ransacked — Everyday, meaning 1: To ransack a place is to search it roughly and messily, turning everything over and leaving it in a mess.↗ Example: The thieves ransacked the house for money.↗ · They ransacked the kitchen and ate everything they found.↗ · Search parties ransacked the town, but found no sign of her.↗

ransom — Everyday, meaning 1: A ransom is money demanded by criminals to set free a person they have kidnapped or to give back something they have taken.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To ransom someone is to pay to free them, or to hold them until money is paid.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Hold to ransom" means forcing people to do something by threatening them; "a king's ransom" means a huge amount of money.↗ Example: The kidnappers asked for a ransom of a million dollars.↗ · The pirates held the captain for ransom.↗ · King Richard was freed after England paid a huge ransom.↗ · Those trainers cost a king's ransom!↗ · The ransom note was made of letters cut from newspapers.↗ · Ransomware locked the company's computers and asked for money.↗ · Never pay strangers online who threaten your files; tell an adult.↗ · In a flash the tiny mouse had seized it, and brought it to Waska as a ransom for the King of the Mice.↗ · None devoted, that may be devoted of men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.↗ (Torah LEV.27.29, JPS 1917)↗ · If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.↗ (Torah EXO.21.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.↗ (Torah NUM.35.31, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall I ransom them from the power of the nether-world?↗ (Prophets HOS.13.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it; ransom me because of mine enemies.↗ (Writings PSA.69.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The ransom of a man's life are his riches; but the poor heareth no threatening.↗ (Writings PRO.13.8, JPS 1917)↗

rant — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb) To talk or shout for a long time in an angry, excited way, often without listening to others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A long, angry speech or piece of writing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, online) A post or video where someone complains loudly about something.↗ Example: Grandad ranted about the price of bread.↗ · My sister went on a rant about her phone being taken away.↗ · Sorry for the rant, I'm just really annoyed!↗ · The coach ranted and raved at the referee.↗ · He posted a long rant about the new game update.↗ · Stop ranting and listen to me for a second.↗